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9781556432514

The Body in Psychotherapy Inquiries in Somatic Psychology

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    9781556432514

  • ISBN10:

    1556432518

  • Edition: 1st
  • Format: Paperback
  • Copyright: 1998-05-01
  • Publisher: North Atlantic Books
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Summary

The Body in Psychotherapyexplores the life of the body as a basis of psychological understanding. Its chapters describe the use of movement, awareness exercises, and bodily imagination in work with various populations and life situations. It chronicles somatic work with childhood trauma, political torture, and life transitions such as aging, the loss of parents, and the emergence of a sense of self. The Body in Psychotherapyis the third in a groundbreaking series that provides a theoretical and practical context for the emerging field of Somatics. The first and second book of the series areBone,Breath,andGesture and Groundworks.

Author Biography

Don Hanlon Johnson received a Ph.D. in Philosophy from Yale University. He is a professor of Somatics at the California Institute of Integral Studies in San Francisco.

Ian J. Grand is Program Director of the Somatic Psychology Program at California Institute of Integral Studies.

Table of Contents

Who Walks?
1(16)
Don Hanlon Johnson
Shock Trauma: Case Study of a Survivor of Political Torture
17(26)
Maryanna Eckberg
Psychotherapy as Grief Work
43(16)
Robert D. Romanyshyn
Against the Wall/Her Beating Heart: Working with the Somatic Aspects of Transference, Countertransference, and Dissociation
59(26)
Barbara Holifield
Why Somatic Therapies Deserve As Much Attention As Psychoanalysis in The New York Review of Books, and Why Bodyworkers Treating Neuroses Should Study Psychoanalysis
85(22)
Richard Grossinger
Living Inquiry
107(18)
Carol Burstein
The Experience of Safety in Somatic Psychotherapy
125(22)
Doug Moorhead
The Dance and the Body In Psychotherapy: Reflections and Clinical Examples
147(24)
Tina Stromsted
Psyche's Body: Towards a Somatic Psychodynamics
171(24)
Ian J. Grand
Bibliography 195

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