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Reichian Growth Work: Melting the Blocks to Life and Love: Second Edition

Author(s) : Nick Totton, Author(s) : Em Edmondson

Reviews and Endorsements

'For everyone with a body, not just the professionals! Edmondson and Totton give a vivid account of an approach which is both compassionate and effective. Body psychotherapy lies at the conjunction of most of the main themes of contemporary psychotherapy: the key role of relationship in the psyche, enhanced understandings stemming from neuroscience and physiology, the need for as much non-regulated practitioner autonomy and freedom to dare as is consistent with responsible practice, and the realisation of how little of what we do is natural and how much irradiated by the culture in which we live. Maybe capitalism's latest crisis will force people to re-read Reich as the relevant theorist of alternative ways to organise our world. If that thought interests you, start here.'
- Andrew Samuels, Professor of Analytical Psychology, University of Essex

About the Authors:
Nick Totton is a body psychotherapist, trainer and supervisor living and working in Calderdale, where he also grows vegetables. He has a grown-up daughter. He has published several other books including "Body Psychotherapy: An Introduction". He is editor of the journal Psychotherapy and Politics International (Wiley). Together with Em, he took the first steps towards initiating the Independent Practitioners Network.

Em Edmondson has been a body orientated psychotherapist in private practice for 27 years. During this time she has co led trainings in Reichian work and Hakomi in the UK, Ireland and Australia. She lives in Leeds, and is the mother of 2 young adults.