(P/B) BODY PSYCHOTHERAPY - AN INTRODUCTION

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Body Psychotherapy is a holistic therapy which approaches human beings as united 'bodyminds', and offers embodied relationships as its central therapeutic stance. Well known forms include Reichian Therapy, Bioenergetics, Dance Movement Therapy, Primal Integration and Process Oriented Psychology. This book examines the growing field of body psychotherapy. It surveys the many forms of body psychotherapy, describes what may happen in body psychotherapy and offers a theoretical account of how this is valuable drawing in current neuroscientific evidence, defines the central concepts of the field, and the unique skills needed by practitioners, is accessible and practical, yet grounded throughout in current research. Body Psychotherapy: An Introduction is of interest to practitioners and students of all forms of psychotherapy and counselling, and anyone who wants to understand how mind and body together form a human being. (from the publisher)

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Foreword
Introduction
1. What happens in body psychotherapy?
Six sessions
What was that about?
The client's tale
The practitioner's tale
Goals, applicability and contraindications
2. Foundations of body psychotherapy
Body psychotherapy and bodywork: embodied relationship
History
Bodymind: the ground of body psychotherapy
Understanding the bodymind
The intersubjective bodymind
Bodymind and society
Body politics
Conclusion
3. Models, concepts and skills
Three models for body psychotherapy
Central concepts of body psychotherapy
Unique skills of body psychotherapy
Varieties of body psychotherapy
Reichian therapies
Primal therapies
Trauma therapies
Process therapies
Expressive therapies
Integrative psychotherapies
Clinical and ethical issues
Combining the three models
Touching
Five levels of touch
Ethical dimensions of touch
Regression
Retraumatization
False memory
Transference and countertransference in body psychotherapy
Techniques of working with embodied transference
Language as a bodily function
The future of body psychotherapy
The impact of regulation
Specific versus generic psychotherapy
Towards a general theory of body psychotherapy
Rattling and shaking body psychotherapy
Does body psychotherapy 'work'?
Putting the 'mind' back in 'bodymind'
Subtle and spiritual bodies
The Dead White Male factor
Odd body out
Appendix Resources
Bibliography
Index