Psychoanalytic Energy Psychotherapy

ISBN-13: 9781855755666 / Angielski / Miękka / 2008 / 504 str.

Phil Mollon

Opis

Psychoanalytic Energy Psychotherapy is the outcome of one psychoanalyst's encounter with the field known generically as energy psychology, which reveals how the conflicts and traumas active within the psyche are encoded as information within the body's energy system. It is inspired primarily by the remarkable and far-reaching work of Dr. Roger Callahan in his development of Thought Field Therapy. There were important figures before Dr. Callahan in the lineage-notably George Goodheart, the founder of Applied Kinesiology, who first explored muscle testing as a source of information about the body's organs and functions, and psychiatrist Dr. John Diamond, who extended this enquiry into the emotional and psychological domains--and many have built substantially on his work since.

The author is compelled to the conclusion that purely talk-based forms of psychotherapy--although not without value--are simply not able to engage effectively with the realm in which the patterns of emotional distress are encoded: the area at the interface of the psyche and the soma, the body's energy field. For this reason, he encourages psychotherapists to consider the implications of TFT and the wider domain of energy psychology. He is convinced that this realm of the body and its energy is entirely congruent with--and indeed an extension of--the psychoanalysis originally developed by Freud.

Spis treści

Disclaimer , Introductory remarks—and rationale for psychoanalytic energy psychotherapy , The essence of energy psychology , History: how did we get to modern energy psychology? , Some simple beginnings–tapping points and procedures, using EFT as a derivative of Thought Field Therapy , Basic procedures in an energy psychology session , Neurological (energetic) disorganisation , Psychological reversal and associated resistances , Muscle testing (energy checking or body dowsing) , 'Parts' and programmes—and other elements of the structure and functioning of the psychoenergetic system , Energy toxins , Working with the chakras , Some thoughts on Tapas Acupressure Technique [TAT] , The energy perspective , Freud, Reich, and bioelectrical energy—from libido to Qi , Is the 'energy' concept necessary? A cognitive model of Emotional Freedom Technique , Energy psychology perspectives and therapies for borderline and other personality disorders , A systematic review 1 of the evidence base for energy psychology methods , Case studies , Ethical aspects of energy psychological work—dangers of idealisation and illusions of knowing

O autorze

Phil Mollon