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| Foreword by Donald Campbell | xv |
| Acknowledgements | xxvii |
| Introduction: When the Body Speaks | 1 |
| Chapter 1 Envy and the Maternal Body: The Psychodynamics of Cosmetic Surgery | 23 |
| Chapter 2 Whose Skin is it Anyway? Some Reflections on the Psychic Function of Necrophilic Fantasies | 41 |
| Chapter 3 An Order of Pure Decision: Growing Up in a Virtual World and the Adolescent's Experience of Being-in-a-Body | 57 |
| Chapter 4 Present Without Past: The Disruption of Temporal Integration in a Case of Adolescent Transsexuality | 74 |
| Chapter 5 The Body One has and the Body One is: The Transsexual's Need to be Seen | 88 |
| Chapter 6 Trauma and the Body: A Psychoanalytic Reading of Almodóvar's The Skin I Live In | 102 |
| Chapter 7 The Body of the Analyst and the Analytic Setting: Reflections on the Embodied Setting and the Symbiotic Transference | 111 |
| Chapter 8 Rapunzel Revisited: Untangling the Unconscious Meaning of Hair | 128 |
| Chapter 9 Off the Couch, into the Toilet: Exploring the Psychic Uses of the Analyst's Toilet | 143 |
| Chapter 10 Entrepreneurs of the Self: Some Psychoanalytic Reflections on the Psychic and Social Functions of Reality TV Makeover Shows | 160 |
| References | 169 |