Irene Matthis is Professor of Psychoanalysis and Assistant Professor of Clinical Neuroscience at Umea University in Sweden. She is a training analyst and teacher at the Swedish Psychoanalytic Institute (IPA) and the Scandinavia Co-ordinator for IPA--COWAP. She is a Board Member of the International Neuro-Psychoanalysis Society and editor of the Bulletin Section of the international journal Neuro-Psychoanalysis. She is the author of several books and papers, including, in Swedish: Det omedvetnas arkeologi, [The Archeology of the Unconscious], Natur och Kultur, 1992; Den tankande kroppen, [The T...