Psychosomatic medicine and contemporary psychoanalysis

By Graeme J Taylor, IUP Press

Abstract

Dr Graeme Taylor is a New Zealander who, subsequent to his MBChB from Otago, trained in psychiatry and psychosomatic medicine at the University of Toronto and State University of New York Medical Centre. Presently he is Associate Professor of Psychiatry at Toronto and consultant to Mount Sinai Hospital, and in this important and scholarly book Psychosomatic Medicine and Contemporary Psychoanalysis has bought together psychobiological research and psychoanalytic theory with child development observations in a much-needed synthesis from which he proposes a new model for understanding psychosomatic process based on pre-neurotic pathology as a consequence of faulty object relationships in early life.