Includes bibliographical references (p. 270-274) and index.

Preface / Gerardo Guti�errez -- Introduction -- The skin in the work of Freud -- Didier Anzieu's ego-skin -- Contributions by other psychoanalysts and psychiatrists to the subject of skin and psychoanalysis -- The skin and the levels of symbolisation : from the ego-skin to the thinking-ego -- "It works for me" : symbolic efficacy and the placebo effect --- Reflections on attachment -- The case of Mr Quir�on -- Body image and the psychosomatic patterns of childhood. Medical publicity regarding the skin -- Pathomimias : self-inflicted lesions on the skin -- Franz Kafka's In the penal colony : superego and the skin -- The relationship between what the psychoanalyst hears and what the dermatologist sees -- Psoriasis : father, don't you see I'm burning? (The skin and the gaze).

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