Speaking of Bodies: Embodied Therapeutic Dialogues

ISBN-13: 9781782202042 / Angielski / Miękka / 2016 / 204 str.

Asaf Rolef Ben-Shahar; Liron Lipkies; Noa Oster

Opis

This is a unique project, bringing together inspiring therapists and non-therapist experts to discuss, inspire and dialogue about bodies through different angles. It is an aesthetic book bringing therapy closer to the body, and the body closer to therapy.

While the body has received significant attention in psychoanalysis and psychotherapy in the last couple of decades, it is still focused primarily on the body of pathology - the body as speaking for (or on behalf of) the mind. Here, leading psychoanalysts and psychotherapists join in with experts whose field is body to examine and celebrate generative, creative, vital and irreducible aspects of our embodiment.

The book divides into seven themes, each includes a chapter by a therapist and another by a specialist pondering various aspects of the body (the rhythmic body, the living body, the sensual body, the body of pain, the beautiful body, the divine body, and the psychotherapist's body). The -theme partners- then embark on a dialogue exploring the similarities and differentness of their approach regarding their respective theme.

Fashion journalists speak with a relational psychotherapist about beauty, a chef discusses sensuality with a couple therapist, a Rabbi and psychoanalyst speak of divinity and the body, and so forth. This is a book aimed at igniting our imagination and faith in the possibility of living a full embodied life, and of integrating such practices within therapeutic and psychoanalytic work.

Spis treści

Foreword -- Introduction -- The Rhythmic Body -- Polyrhythmic weave of micro-moment interaction -- Dialogue: the song that’s in our head -- The Living Body -- A body in relationship -- A birthing body -- Dialogue: the living body -- The Sensual Body -- In search of erotic intelligence -- La petite mort -- Dialogue: imagining desire -- The Body of Pain -- There is no process in death -- A woman, singing to herself -- Dialogue: screaming into Hell -- The Beautiful Body -- Subjects of beauty -- The journey back to self-worth -- Dialogue: recognising beauty -- The Divine Body -- Where is body? -- In my flesh I shall see God -- Dialogue: down the mountain -- The Psychotherapist’s Body -- Responding to a boundary -- Like love -- Dialogue: falling off the horse

O autorze

Lipkies, Liron