Body Psychotherapy: A Theoretical Foundation for Clinical Practice

Author(s) : Ulfried Geuter

Body Psychotherapy: A Theoretical Foundation for Clinical Practice

Book Details

  • Publisher : Routledge
  • Published : 2023
  • Cover : Paperback
  • Pages : 456
  • Category :
    Individual Psychotherapy
  • Catalogue No : 97525
  • ISBN 13 : 9781032010458
  • ISBN 10 : 1032010452

Table of Contents


1. Introduction
2. Towards a definition of body psychotherapy
3. The quest for natural aliveness: On the origins of body psychotherapy
4. The legacy of the schools
5. The living subject
6. Body experience: The basis of self-experience
7. The experienced body and the body of natural science
8. Embodiment research: The sensorimotor basis of thinking and feeling
9. Memory: Embodied remembering
10. Emotions: Models of emotionality and the practice of body psychotherapy
11. Child development: The shaping of experience in early affect motor dialogue
12. Affect motor schemas as body narratives
13. Defence and coping meachnisms: Bodily forms of processing experience
14. Communication with the body: Body behaviour and therapeutic interaction
15. Transference and somatic resonance
16. Moments of understanding
17. Self-regulation and life regulation
18. The contribution of body psychotherapy to integration

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