About a Body

About a Body documents the most recent thinking and research about the embodied mind in psychotherapy, and addresses the fundamental questions raised by the use of the body in clinical practice.

Documents the thinking and research about the embodied mind in psychotherapy, and addresses the fundamental questions raised by the use of the body in clinical practice. This work includes a range of differing views of the importance of the body in psychotherapy, both in theory and in practice.

Wake, Foreword. Wilkinson, Touching Each Other Yet Being Other. Panksepp, The Core Emotional Systems of the Mammalian Brain: The Fundamental Substrates of Human Emotions. Panksepp, Examples of Application of the Affective Neuroscience Strategy to Clinical Issues. Carroll, A New Era for Psychotherapy: Panksepp's Affect Model in the Context of Neuroscience and its Implications for Contemporary Psychotherapy Practice. Orbach, Carroll, Contemporary Approaches to the Body in Psychotherapy: Two Psychotherapists in Dialogue. Young, One Hundred and Fifty Years On: The History, Significance and Scope of Body Psychotherapy Today. Mollon, Implications of EMDR and Energy Therapies: The Limits of Talking Therapy. Soth, What Therapeutic Hope for a Subjective Mind in an Objectified Body? Boyesen, How I Developed Biodynamic Psychotherapy. Herbert, Healing from Complex Trauma: An Integrative 3-Systems' Approach. Payne, The Body as Container and Expresser: Authentic Movement Groups in the Development of Wellbeing in Our Bodymindspirit. Schaverien, Transference and the Meaning of Touch: The Body in Psychotherapy with the Client Who is Facing Death. Sills, 'In This Body, a Fathom Long..': Working with Embodied Mind and Interbeing in Psychotherapy. Zabriskie, When Psyche Meets Soma: The Question of Incarnation .