About the book: 2018 / Unabated interest in the search for the psychoanalytic meaning of the body is connected both with the social context of thinking about “body attractiveness” and the use of “cosmetic surgery”, and with various pathological manifestations, such as self-harm and eating disorders. The main psychological content of these disorders is a person’s attempt to control his body as much as possible in order to avoid feelings of powerlessness and sacrifice the body or part of it in order to save his identity. To maintain identity, people have always changed their bodies and manipulated them as their property, but at the same time, sometimes the body was treated extremely cruelly, as an object belonging to the outside world. The book contains vivid clinical illustrations of often bizarre modern forms of body treatment, which are seen as manifestations of complex psychological relationships between people.