Psychosomatics Today: A Psychoanalytic Perspective is a fascinating and much needed corrective to a relatively neglected and often weakly conceptualized area of psychoanalytic thinking in the contemporary American scene. Rooted in the work of Pierre Marty, his colleagues in the Paris Psychosomatic School (e.g., de M'Uzan, Fain, David, Aisenstein, Smadja), and prominent Latin American authors (e.g., Rascovsky, Garma, Pichon Riviere, Baranger and Baranger, Rappoport de Aisemberg), this volume contains chapters written by leading psychosomaticians from all three regions of the IPA and covers a broad range of topics illustrated in rich clinical detail. These include the role of affect (Claude Smadja), trauma (Graeme Taylor) and unconscious fantasy (Catalina Bronstein) in somatic disorders; the vicissitudes of drive, mourning, and sublimation and their relation to somatization (Evelyne Sechaud); the connection between childhood somatosis and the capacity to say “No!” (Gerard Swzec); and the adolescent body as the locus of expression of unsymbolized