Vaia Tsolas is a psychologist and psychoanalyst on the faculty at Columbia University Psychoanalytic Center and Albert Einstein Medical School, teaching Freud and Lacan. She is the director of Rose Hill Psychological Services. She is the winner of IPA Sacerdoti Prize, Columbia Ovesey and Klar best teacher award.

Christine Anzieu-Premmereur is M.D., Ph.D. and Psychoanalyst, member at the Société Psychanalytique de Paris and the New York Psychoanalytic Institute. She is currently the director of the Parent-Infant Program at the Columbia Psychoanalytic Center and Assistant Clinical Professor in Psychiatry at Columbia University.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

General Introduction

VAIA TSOLAS

PART I: THE BODY IN OUR CHANGING WORLD

Introduction

Vaia Tsolas

Empathy Machines

Sherry Turkle

Changing Attitudes about Sex: A Dual Inheritance Perspective

Robert A. Paul

Modern Gender Flexibility: Pronoun changes and the Body's Activities

Rosemary H. Balsam

PART II: THE BODY IN THE CHANGING FAMILY

Introduction

Vaia Tsolas

Introduction to: "Transformations of Parentality", by Julia Kristeva, Translated by Edward Kenny

Rosemary H. Balsam

Transformations of Parentality

Julia Kristeva

The Sibling Body Ego

Juliet Mitchell

Perspectives on the Body Ego and Mother-Infant Interaction. I've Got You Under My Skin

Christine Anzieu-Premmereur

PART III: THE SEXUAL BODY, THE SPEAKING BODY AND THE SICK BODY

Introduction

Maria Christina Aguirre

Body and Soul. A Never-Ending Story

Paul Verhaeghe

Somatic Ailment and Death Drive: Dangerous Liaisons

Panagiotis Aloupis

What is Alive in the Ill Body? Affect and Representation in Psychosomatics

Marina Papageorgiou

PART IV: SEX, GENDER AND INFANTILE SEXUALITY

Introduction

Christine Anzieu-Premmereur

Foreign Bodies: The Body-Psyche and its Phantoms

Dominique Scarfone

Botched Bodies: Inventing Gender and Constructing Sex

Patricia Gherovici

Repudiation of Femininity and the Aftermath on the Female Sexual Body

Vaia Tsolas

CONCLUDING REMARKS

Christine Anzieu-Premmereur