Embodied Relating
Karnac Books (Verlag)
978-1-78220-293-6 (ISBN)
Embodied Relating is addressed both to body psychotherapists and to verbal therapists, and argues that embodied relating is the soil from which all therapy grows, and that conscious understanding of this makes our work more powerful and accurate.Embodied relating is embedded in our everyday life: we can all 'do' embodied relating, though some do it better than others. Like many other important aspects of life, it generally happens of its own accord, but sometimes benefits from the sort of close examination which tends to happen in therapy. However, psychotherapy has a history of keeping embodiment out of its field of awareness, and of preferring language-based relating to all other kinds - indeed, until quite recently, of downplaying here-and-now relationship altogether. All these things are now changing; and this book is intended to be part of the change.Embodiment and relationship are inseparable, both in human existence and in psychotherapy. If we explore embodiment, we encounter relationship; if we explore relationship, we encounter embodiment. Therapy is more powerful when the practitioner is able to recognise the constant interplay between these two aspects of being human, and to follow and support the shifts of change from one to the other. The book explores the nature of embodiment, and of embodied relating, drawing on many sources, including Merleau-Ponty, Foucault, Bourdieu, enaction theory, extended cognition, and neuroscience. It places this in the context of psychotherapy, and of the wider social and political field. It then explores other related issues like play, language, trauma, and complexity, and offers a model for those trained in verbal therapy to consult their embodiment when working with clients. It ends with some wider speculations about embodiment, connectedness, human history and ecosystemic thinking.
Nick Totton is a therapist and trainer with nearly thirty years experience. Originally a Reichian body therapist, his approach has become broad based and open to the spontaneous and unexpected. Nick has an MA in Psychoanalytic Studies, and has worked with Process-Oriented Psychology and trained as a craniosacral therapist. He has authored or edited seventeen books, mostly on psychotherapy-related topics, including 'Body Psychotherapy: An Introduction'; 'Psychotherapy and Politics'; 'Press When Illuminated: New and Selected Poems'; and 'Wild Therapy'.
A Note on Style -- Introduction -- What is embodiment? -- Embodiment and environment -- Embodied relating -- Practising embodied relating -- The Story So Far, -- Embodied relating in its social context -- Being, having, and becoming bodies -- Character as embodied relating -- The Story So Far, 2 -- Therapy as play -- Full and empty speech -- Embodied trauma and complexity -- The Story So Far, 3 -- Therapy grounded in embodied relating -- Embodied connectedness -- Conclusion
| Erscheint lt. Verlag | 21.5.2018 |
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| Verlagsort | London |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 147 x 230 mm |
| Themenwelt | Medizin / Pharmazie ► Medizinische Fachgebiete ► Psychiatrie / Psychotherapie |
| ISBN-10 | 1-78220-293-5 / 1782202935 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-78220-293-6 / 9781782202936 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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