The body image in psychoanalysis and art

"The Body Image in Psychoanalysis and Art" contains highly stimulating and scholarly papers, originally presented at the May, 2005 Florence Symposium on psychoanalysis and art. The papers from the two disciplines are complementary, as well as contrasting in their points of view. Readers will find the psychoanalytic insights and historical perspectives both fascinating and enlightening. Discussions of artists and their works, representing a variety of periods, places, and styles, provide a multifaceted unique panorama.
The Blums' indefatigable efforts and resourcefulness have again produced a winner. Following on the heels of two masterful interdisciplinary congresses on Art and Psychoanalysis held in Florence, the first on "Parent-Child Relations", and the second on "Self Portraits", we now have the third in the series devoted to "Body Image in Psychoanalysis and Art". The joint participation of leading art historians and psychoanalysts from both Europe and the United States has produced a panoply of papers which represent the most current thinking on the topic. This volume will be of interest to both students and researchers at all levels of expertise in both psychoanalysis and art history. Francis Baudry, M.D.