Relational Perspectives on the Body, a compilation of twelve papers edited by Lewis Aron and Frances Sommer Anderson, aims to enhance the clinician's capacity to foster an integration of patients' somatic experience with their cognitive and affective life. The contributors discuss the interrelated themes of the somatic representation of psychic issues; normal and pathological physical states; enactments; affective expression; somatic memories; and shifting states of consciousness. The book's relational orientation is reflected in its focus on the mutual, bidirectional influence of the interacting bodies of analyst and patient, and on the analyst's responsive use of his or her own bodily states in