Borderline Bodies

People with personality disorders often attack their own bodies through eating disorders and other self-destructiveness. This book takes a wide-ranging approach to borderline personality disorders and argues that people cannot be treated effectively until the complex mind-body-brain connection is understood.

“"Clara Mucci's latest book provides a reflection on psychotherapy with borderline patients that is remarkable in its breadth. This book helps bring psychoanalytic thinking into the 21st century. It should contribute to reviving interest in psychoanalytic psychotherapy and assuring a central role in its relation to other areas of scientific investigation. Mucci elaborates the vitality of the analytic endeavor as she connects what goes on in the patient-therapist interaction with the increasing body of knowledge coming from the neurosciences. The book helped me better appreciate what I do when trying to help patients and gave me ideas about how to refine the process. By focusing on right-brain and implicit processes, Mucci helps bring us out of an age of psychoanalytic work that was often stuck in a narrow view of the therapeutic interaction. Mucci succeeds in complementing a sophisticated discussion of neuroscience as it relates to the analytic process with rich case examples that illustrate the points she is making."”

Clara Mucci's Borderline Bodies is a masterful integration of theory, research, and clinical work that addresses common and serious trauma-based psychological disorders. Narcissism, complex PTSD, dissociation, psychosomatic, disturbances, and suicide are explicated with reference to attachment theory, and other variants of contemporary and classical psychoanalysis, neurobiology, and literature. No surprise to learn that before training in clinical psychology and psychoanalysis. Mucci first earned her PhD in English literature. Borderline Bodies is a creative interdisciplinary work that is a pleasure to read. It will be of immense interest to professions and students across the wide array of disciplines comprising the mental health field.--Howard Steele, Professor and Chair for Clinical Psychology, Co-Director, Center for Attachment Research, New School for Social Research

Clara Mucci, PhD, is a clinical psychologist, case supervisor, and professor of psychology at Università Gabriele D’Annunzio. She lives in Italy.

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