On Moving and Being Moved: Nonverbal Behavior in Clinical Practice

ISBN-13: 9780881633160 / Angielski / Twarda / 2001 / 270 str.

Frances La Barre

Opis

Every sensitive therapist intuits the wealth of meaning that resides in nonverbal behaviour. Yet, trained as they are to discern and communicate verbal insights, few therapists have a clear idea of how to tap that stream of meaning. In this study, Frances La Barre remedies this situation in an intellectually broadening and clinically exciting manner. Drawing on an extensive research literature on movement and nonverbal behaviour, her background as a dancer, and her extensive analytic experience, she seeks to enhance our perception of movement and our understanding of its role in therapeutic communication.

Spis treści

Part I: The Choreography of Conversation. Language and Nonverbal Behavior. Talking and Acting. Attunement. Temperament, Interaction, and Self. Part II: Psychoanalytic Theory: The Setting of the Unseen Scene. The Body. Interaction, The Patient's Action. Interaction, The Analyst's Action. Part III: The Logic of Action: Studies of Nonverbal Behavior. The Intrinsic-Meaning Position. The Cultural School. The School of Practical Analysis. Toward Complementarity. Part IV: The Logical of Action in the Clinical Setting. The Matching and Clashing of Temperament. "Drive" as an Aspect of Interaction. Body Attitude and Countertransferential Experience. The Interactive Effect and Meaning of Speech Rhythms. Conclusion.

O autorze

Frances La Barre, Ph.D., is faculty and supervisor at the Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy Study Center and the Institute for Contemporary Psychotherapy, as well as adjunct professor of psychology in the graduate department of Pace University. She maintains a private practice in New York City with individual adults, children, parents and infants, and couples.