Is It All the Brain's Fault?! Simple Psychosomatics for Complex People

Accessible and clear—about complex matters and important realities.

Psychosomatics and psychoanalysis for those who want to understand themselves and others.

Insomnia, panic attacks, extra weight, diseases “on nerves,” intimate problems—people commonly call these phenomena psychosomatic. With these questions we go to a psychologist, psychotherapist, psychoanalyst—sometimes to a psychiatrist—just so that there’s that precious prefix “psycho.” And we wait for answers. But instead of answers, you get one surprise after another, because “psycho” won’t help you with these issues.

The reader is offered a refined, original, and moderately ironic concept of psychosomatic problems. Moving from messy, concrete neural details to clean psychoanalytic abstractions, we’ll explore questions of free speech, aggression, sociophobia, a false Super-Ego, separation, and psychiatric authority. For extra persuasiveness, we’ll flavor the whole theory with spicy cases from practice. And you might finally understand what kind of beast “psychosomatics” is.