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Skin of hate, skin of love
- Author:
- WOOD Peter C.
- Journal article citation:
- Psychoanalytic Social Work, 21(1-2), 2014, pp.133-148.
- Publisher:
- Taylor and Francis
While skin can be expressive of self-representation, skin can also be the origin of self-representations and of particular problems in self-representation. In the case described the patient is born with a congenital, severe skin disorder and the significant part that skin has played in a four-year psychoanalysis is described. The article then focuses on one function of skin, that of containment, and relates this containment function to the patient's sense of herself and to thoughts about psychoanalytic work. (Edited publisher abstract)