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FINDING THE BODY
IN THE MIND
Embodied Memories, Trauma,
and Depression
Marianne Leuzinger-Bohleber
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CONTENTS
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS vii
ABOUT THE AUTHOR ix
SERIES EDITOR’S FOREWORD xi
FOREWORD xiii
INTRODUCTION xix
CHAPTER ONE
Psychoanalysis as a “science of the unconscious” and its
dialogue with the neurosciences and embodied cognitive
science: some historical and epistemological remarks 1
CHAPTER TWO
Finding the body in the mind: embodiment and approaching
the non-represented—a case study and some theory 19
CHAPTER THREE
The relevance of the embodiment concept for psychoanalysis 33
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CHAPTER FOUR
“I still don’t know who I really am . . .” Depression and
trauma: a transgenerational psychoanalytical perspective 49
CHAPTER FIVE
Inspiration of the clinical psychoanalytical practice by the
dialogue with the neurosciences and embodied cognitive
science: some examples 81
CHAPTER SIX
How to investigate transformations in psychoanalysis?
Contrasting clinical and extra-clinical findings on changes of
dreams in psychoanalysis with a severely traumatised,
chronically depressed analysand
Tamara Fischmann, Marianne Leuzinger-Bohleber,
Margarete Schoett and Michael Russ 161
CHAPTER SEVEN
“Finding the body in the mind . . .” and some consequences
for early prevention: the concept “outreaching psychoanalysis”
and some realisations 185
NOTES 209
REFERENCES 223
INDEX 265
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
I would like to extend my sincere appreciation to a number of people:
Prof. Dr ret. Ulrich Moser, my scientific mentor and friend, who had
already convinced me of the importance of the radical openness of
psychoanalysis for interdisciplinary cooperation in the 1970s; Prof. Dr
Rolf Pfeifer, who has encouraged me, over three decades of close
collaboration, to continue to build bridges between psychoanalysis
and cognitive science; and Dr med. Lotte Köhler and Prof. Dr
Wolfgang Mertens, who made it possible for Prof. Dr Martha Koukou-
Lehmann and me to organise the colloquium “Psychoanalysis and the
Neurosciences” at a time when such an enterprise ran counter to the
Zeitgeist. I extend my most cordial thanks to all the above! I am also
indebted to my co-director at the Sigmund Freud Institute, Prof. Dr Dr
Rolf Haubl, and Prof. Dr Heinz Weiss, as well as to my colleagues,
among them, first and foremost, PD Dr Tamara Fischmann and PD Dr
Ulrich Bahrke, Dipl. Psych. Lisa Kallenbach, Dipl. Psych. Margerete
Schoett, Dipl. Psych. Johannes Kaufhold, PD Dr Katrin Luise Laezer,
Dr Judith Lebiger-Vogel, Dipl. Psych. Constanze Rickmeyer, MA Soc.
Anne Busse, Dipl. Psych. Korinna Fritzemeyer, MA Verena Neubert,
Dipl. Psych. Lorena Hartmann, MA Peter Ackermann, Dipl. Ed. Maria
Schreiber, and the many young scientists impossible to name here, but
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without whose collaboration all projects—as complex as transgenera-
tive commitment—would not have been possible. Special thanks go to
the statistics consultants of all of my projects, Prof. Dr ret. Bernhard
Rüger, and my friends and psychoanalytic colleagues Dipl. Ed.
Angelika Wolff and Dipl. Ed. Claudia Burkhardt-Mußmann. I am like-
wise greatly indebted to many of my international colleagues and
friends, among others, Prof. ret. Robert N. Emde and Prof. Dr Henri
Parens, who have been dedicated supporters of our early prevention
projects; Prof. Dr Peter Fonagy, with whom I organised most of the
Sandler Conferences and has generously supported the SFI over the
years; Prof. Dr Mary Target, Prof. Dr Linda Mayes, Prof. Dr Rolf
Sandell, Prof. Dr Stephan Hau, Prof. Dr Ricardo Bernardi, Prof. Dr
Jorge Canestri, Prof. Dr Sverre Varvin, Prof. Dr Siri Gullestad, Dr
Nicola Tzavaras, and Prof. Mark Solms, who included me in the
Action Group for Neuropsychoanalysis at an early stage, and who
worked as Guest Professor and friend at the SFI. I am also grateful to
Gail Reed who first proposed the idea for the present publication.
For help with the design of the manuscript, I would like to thank
MA Dipl. Soc. Anne Busse, and Justin Morris for the swift and profes-
sional translation.
Most of all, I would like to thank Dr Werner Bohleber—with whom
I share my passion for psychoanalysis—now, as ever, such a great gift.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Marianne Leuzinger-Bohleber is a training analyst in the German
Psychoanalytical Association. She had her training in the Swiss
Psychoanalytical Society, and is a former Chair of the Research
Subcommittees for Conceptual Research. She is Vice Chair of the
Research Board of the IPA; Full Professor for Psychoanalysis at the
University of Kassel; and Head Director of the Sigmund-Freud-
Institute, Frankfurt/Main. Her main research fields include epistemol-
ogy and methods of clinical and empirical research in psychoanalysis,
interdisciplinary discourses with embodied cognitive science, the
neurosciences, educational sciences, and modern German literature.
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