Touching the Relational Edge: Body Psychotherapy

by Asaf Rolef Ben-Shahar

Overview

This book introduces body psychotherapy to psychologists, psychotherapists, and interested others through an attachment based, object relations, and primarily psychoanalytic and relational framework. It approaches body psychotherapy through historical, theoretical and clinical perspectives.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780367328221
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	07/05/2019
Pages:	416
Product dimensions:	7.44(w) x 9.69(h) x (d)

Table of Contents

Telepathy — Preface — Preface — Foreword — Introduction — Historical — Blanche Wittman’s breasts † : tracking the historical split between body psychotherapy and psychoanalysis — The melting pot of body psychotherapy — A roadmap to body psychotherapy modalities — Theoretical — Form and flow: three levels of self-organisation † — Theory of bodymind in body psychotherapy — The bodymind character structure — The language of the body: further concepts in body psychotherapy — Clinical — Embodied therapeutic dialogues — Body psychotherapeutic skills — One tender touch: touch in body psychotherapy — Gliding on the strings that connect us: resonance in body psychotherapy * . — Summary — The relational approach *