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| Foreword | |
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| Acknowledgements | |
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| The Author | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Understanding the Hands | |
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| The Hands and the Brain | |
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| The evolution of the human hand | |
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| The hands and the two brain hemispheres | |
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| The hands-brain-language connection | |
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| The Language of Our Hands | |
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| The core senses | |
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| Haptic perception | |
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| The skin sense | |
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| Sense of balance | |
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| Depth sensibility | |
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| Haptic object relations | |
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| The topography of the hands | |
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| The therapeutic dialog with the hands | |
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| Kinesthetic messages of the hands | |
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| Setting the Scene for Work at the Clay Field | |
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| The Work Set-up at the Clay Field | |
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| The clay | |
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| The water | |
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| The box | |
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| Topography of the Clay Field | |
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| Props | |
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| The accompanying human "you" | |
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| The Work Process at the Clay Field | |
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| The felt sense | |
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| The gestalt circle-the echoing touch | |
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| The reafference principle-the echo | |
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| Sensorimotor stages of gestalt formation | |
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| Cognitive integration | |
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| Trauma Healing | |
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| The psychophysiology of trauma | |
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| Trauma symptoms | |
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| Trauma client groups | |
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| Dissociation | |
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| The body as a resource | |
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| Handling trauma at the Clay Field I: Pendulation | |
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| The bottom-up approach | |
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| Art therapy resources | |
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| Handling trauma at the Clay Field II: The sensorimotor process | |
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| Working at the Clay Field with Adults | |
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| The Nine Situations | |
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| Reliability, being reliable to me | |
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| Reliability: relying on something other than me | |
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| Finding orientation | |
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| Reaching object constancy | |
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| Reaching subject constancy | |
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| Finding one's own ground | |
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| Shadow integration | |
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| Destruction as self-realization | |
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| Accepting one's humanity | |
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| Your Story | |
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| "I am being held" | |
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| "Balance" | |
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| "It's all mine" | |
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| "I am precious" | |
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| Working at the Clay Field with Children | |
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| The Differences between Accompanying Children and Adults | |
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| Stages in children's work cessions at the Clay Field | |
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| Children's developmental phases | |
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| Working with Traumatized Children | |
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| Useful resources for working with children | |
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| Transitional objects | |
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| Stages of trauma healing with children | |
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| Max's story | |
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| Tom's story | |
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| Mia's Story | |
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| Alicia's Story | |
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| References | |
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| Further Reading | |
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| Subject Index | |
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| Author Index | |