There is currently an explosion of interest in the field of body psychotherapy. This is feeding back into psychotherapy and counselling in general, with many practitioners and trainees becoming interested in the role of the body in holding and releasing traumatic patterns. This collection of ground-breaking work by practitioners at the forefront of contemporary body psychotherapy enriches the whole therapy world. It explores the leading edge of theory and practice, including:
Neuroscientific contributionsEmbodied countertransferenceMovement patterns and infant developmentFreudian and Jungian approachesContinuum MovementEmbodied-Relational TherapyProcess WorkBody-Mind Centering (R) Developmental Somatic PsychotherapyTrauma work
New Dimensions in Body Psychotherapy is an essential contribution to the 'turn to the body' in modern psychotherapy.Contributors: Jean-Claude Audergon, Katya Bloom, Roz Carroll, Emilie Conrad, Ruella Frank, Linda Hartley, Gottfried Heuer, Peter Levine, Yorai Sella, Michael Soth, Nick Totton, David Tune.
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Verlagsort
Milton Keynes
Großbritannien
Zielgruppe
Für höhere Schule und Studium
Maße
Höhe: 236 mm
Breite: 157 mm
Dicke: 19 mm
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ISBN-13
978-0-335-21593-5 (9780335215935)
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Schweitzer Klassifikation
Nick Totton originally trained in Reichian therapy in the early 1980s and since then has worked as a psychotherapist and trainer based in Leeds. He has an M.A. in Psychoanalytic Studies from Leeds Metropolitan University, where he used to teach. His other books published by Open University Press include Personality and Character Types (with Michael Jacobs), Body Psychotherapy and The Politics of Psychotherapy.
Contributors
IntroductionPart 1: New dimensions of theory
Neuroscience and the 'Law of Self': The automonic nervous system updated, re-mapped and in relationship
Panic, biology and reason: Giving the body its due
Embodied countertransference
Articulating preverbial experience
Dilemman around the ethical use of touch in psychotherapy
Part 2: New dimensions of practice
Recovering and eliciting precursors of meaning: A psychodynamic perspective of the body in psychotherapy
'In my flesh I shal see God': Jungian body psychotherapy
Embodying the sense of self: Body-Mind Centering (R) and authentic movement
Continuum movement
The body in process work
Embodied-relational therapy
Index
