Touching the Relational Edge: Body Psychotherapy

ISBN-13: 9781782200949 / Angielski / Miękka / 2014 / 416 str.

Asaf Rolef Ben-Shahar

Opis

The psychotherapeutic encounter is a meeting between embodied psyches, bodies present in the room, speaking with each another, impacting and impacted by one another; bodies who are waiting for us to listen to them and dialogue with them - and speak on their behalf. The field of body psychotherapy has been exploring this embodied dialogue since the 1930s.

The book Touching the Relational Edge delves into the history of body-psychotherapy, offering theoretical and clinical conceptualizations and insights, and is rich with clinical vignettes and applicable exercises, all aimed at providing the reader with a theoretical and experiential understanding of the place of the body in psychotherapy - allowing the reader a dynamic, curious and affective engagement.

The book opens a window into the cutting-edge world of relational body-psychotherapy, offering the reader a personal and professional journey into the depth of therapeutic relationship as seen through anatomical and relational eyes.

Spis treści

Telepathy -- Preface -- Preface -- Foreword -- Introduction -- Historical -- Blanche Wittman’s breasts † : tracking the historical split between body psychotherapy and psychoanalysis -- The melting pot of body psychotherapy -- A roadmap to body psychotherapy modalities -- Theoretical -- Form and flow: three levels of self-organisation † -- Theory of bodymind in body psychotherapy -- The bodymind character structure -- The language of the body: further concepts in body psychotherapy -- Clinical -- Embodied therapeutic dialogues -- Body psychotherapeutic skills -- One tender touch: touch in body psychotherapy -- Gliding on the strings that connect us: resonance in body psychotherapy * . -- Summary -- The relational approach *

O autorze

Rolef Ben-Shahar, Asaf