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 contributions Embodied countertransference Movement patterns and infant development Freudian and Jungian approaches Continuum Movement Embodied-Relational Therapy Process Work Body-Mind Centering® Developmental Somatic Psychotherapy Trauma 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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Contributors Introduction Part 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® and authentic movement Continuum movement The body in process work Embodied-relational therapy Index
Table of contents:
Contributors Introduction Part 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® and authentic movement Continuum movement The body in process work Embodied-relational therapy Index