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Body Psychotherapy: An Introduction

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"...a well-rooted resource for bodywork courses and a useful introductory text for a broad audience." Caduceus

"It's not a big book but it's got a vast amount of information and knowledge in it. ...if you are interested in getting a good overall picture of the subject you couldn't do better." The Fulcrum

Body psychotherapy is an holistic therapy which approaches human beings as united bodymind, and offers embodied relationship as its central therapeutic stance. Well-known forms include Reichian Therapy, Bioenergetics, Dance Movement Therapy, Primal Integration and Process Oriented Psychology.

This new title examines the growing field of body psychotherapy:

• 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
• Accessible and practical, yet grounded throughout in current research

Character and Personality Types (Core Concepts in Therapy)

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It is very difficult for the student or practitioner to find their way through the jungle of different personality typographies that has sprung up in the field of psychotherapy; and even harder for them to find a point of sufficient height above the forest canopy to get their bearings in order to compare one system with another. This volume offers such an observation point together with some possible mappings. It surveys how different schools of therapy approach a basic topic, the differences that exist between people - including their attitudes, feelings, concerns and talents. It examines different systematic and non-systematic approaches to identifying different types of human being, exploring whether there are systematic ways in which humans vary, how we can assess the merit of different typologies, and whether personality typing is a helpful approach to therapy.

Character and Personality Types looks in detail at the arguments for and against the use of typologies of character and personality as a clinical tool; and offers general criteria for judging the merits of particular personality systems, as well as exploring the possibility of a wider synthesis. Read more...

The Problem with Humanistic Therapies (The Problem With Series)

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This book will be a useful guide to the humanistic therapies, and is drawn from the author’s practical experience as a therapist.

"One major problem for humanistic therapy is not of its own making: as a later arrival on the scene than psychoanalytic therapy, it is inevitably defined and described in contrast to it rather than in its own right. This is perhaps why its own self-descriptions tend strongly to be insular, and often ignorant of what other people are up to. The standard depiction of psychoanalytic work by humanistic writers is around 50 years out of date. But of course much the same is true the other way around; and the analytic world’s tendency to ignore the very existence of humanistic work is infuriating in the extreme."

Chapter 1 describes in outline what the humanistic therapies are, both in general terms and characterizing each of the big three, Gestalt therapy, Rogerian therapy or counselling, and Transactional Analysis. Chapter 2 looks at the strengths of humanistic work, while Chapter 3 turns each of these around and examines its weaknesses. Chapter 4 then looks at possible futures for humanistic work in a fairly inhospitable environment. Read more...

New Dimensions in Body Psychotherapy

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There is currently an explosion of interest in the field of body psychotherapy. This is feeding back into psychotherapy and counselling in general, with many practitioners and trainees becoming interested in the role of the body in holding and releasing traumatic patterns.

This collection of ground-breaking work by practitioners at the forefront of contemporary body psychotherapy enriches the whole therapy world. It explores the leading edge of theory and practice, including:

• Neuroscientific contributions
• Embodied countertransference
• Movement patterns and infant development
• Freudian and Jungian approaches
• Continuum Movement
• Embodied-Relational Therapy
• Process Work
• Body-Mind Centering®
• Developmental Somatic Psychotherapy
• Trauma work

Contributors: Jean-Claude Audergon, Katya Bloom, Roz Carroll, Emilie Conrad, Ruella Frank, Linda Hartley, Gottfried Heuer, Peter Levine, Yorai Sella, Michael Soth, Nick Totton, David Tune. Read more...