Body Psychotherapy An Introduction

Name: Body Psychotherapy An Introduction
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ISBN: 9780335210381

ISBN-10: 0335210384

ISBN-13: 9780335210381

Edition: 2003

Authors: Nick Totton

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"...a well-rooted resource for bodywork courses and a useful introductory text for a broad audience." Caduceus "It's not a big book but it's got a vast amount of information and knowledge in it. ...if you are interested in getting a good overall picture of the subject you couldn't do better." The Fulcrum Body psychotherapy is an holistic therapy which approaches human beings as united bodymind, and offers embodied relationship as its central therapeutic stance. Well-known forms include Reichian Therapy, Bioenergetics, Dance Movement Therapy, Primal Integration and Process Oriented Psychology. This new title examines the growing field of body psychotherapy: Surveys the many forms of body…

Book details

List price: $51.00
Copyright year: 2003
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Education
Publication date: 3/1/2003
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 200
Size: 6.10" wide x 9.06" long x 0.51" tall
Weight: 0.682
Language: English

Nick Totton is a psychotherapist and trainer working in Leeds, UK, a member of the European Association for Body Psychotherapy, and in a prospective member group of the Independent Practitioners Association. He is the author of several books, including The Water in the Glass: Body and Mind in Psychoanalysis (1998), and editor of Psychotherapy and Politics International.



Foreword


Introduction



What happens in body psychotherapy?


Six sessions


What was that about?


The client's tale


The practitioner's tale


Goals, applicability and contraindications



Foundations of body psychotherapy


Body psychotherapy and bodywork: embodied relationship


History


Bodymind: the ground of body psychotherapy


Understanding the bodymind


The intersubjective bodymind


Bodymind and society


Body politics


Conclusion



Models, concepts and skills


Three models for body psychotherapy


Central concepts of body psychotherapy


Unique skills of body psychotherapy



Varieties of body psychotherapy


Reichian therapies


Primal therapies


Trauma therapies


Process therapies


Expressive therapies


Integrative psychotherapies



Clinical and ethical issues


Combining the three models


Touching


Five levels of touch


Ethical dimensions of touch


Regression


Retraumatization


False memory


Transference and countertransference in body psychotherapy


Techniques of working with embodied transference


Language as a bodily function



The future of body psychotherapy


The impact of regulation


Specific versus generic psychotherapy


Towards a general theory of body psychotherapy


Rattling and shaking body psychotherapy


Does body psychotherapy 'work'?


Putting the 'mind' back in 'bodymind'


Subtle and spiritual bodies


The Dead White Male factor


Odd body out



Resources


Bibliography


Index