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The Bodily Roots of Experience in Psychotherapy: Moving Self

Author(s) : Ruella Frank

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Ruella Frank has given us a great gift. Keenly observed and richly considered, she connects us to the current of contact that underlies human experience. Her insights into the body’s role in both obstructing and facilitating entry into the present moment are invaluable. - Mark Epstein is author of Thoughts without a Thinker and The Zen of Therapy: Uncovering a Hidden Kindness in Life

Ruella Frank’s book explores a new paradigm for psychotherapy theory and practice explained with great simplicity and depth. It describes with experiential immediacy, and through sensitive case studies, the phenomenology of relational movements that build our being in the world and sets the ground for each unique therapeutic encounter.　The Bodily Roots of Experience in Psychotherapy is an excellent tool for psychotherapists of all modalities, and for those who want to orient themselves in the relational use of the body for healing relationships. - Margherita Spagnuolo Lobb is director Istituto di Gestalt HCC Italy and author of The Now for Next in Psychotherapy: Gestalt Therapy Recounted in Post-Modern Society

Given her background and experience as a practising Gestalt psychotherapist, Ruella Frank’s detailed specifications and case studies of the psychophysical features of the "Six Fundamental Movements" that ground human interrelationships and human-world relationships are particularly edifying. Those psychophysical features document the integral relationship of movement and feelings, showing how that relationship is experientially evident from the very beginning, that is, in infancy and from infancy onward. - Maxine Sheets-Johnstone is author of The Primacy of Movement and Insides and Outsides: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Animate Nature