The embodied analyst : from Freud and Reich to relationality / Jon Sletvold.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Sletvold, Jon.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Psychoanalysis.

Physical Description:

xxii, 186 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

East Sussex : Routledge, 2014.

Summary:

The Embodied Analyst brings together the history of embodied analysis found in the work of Freud and Reich and contemporary relational analysis, particularly as influenced by infant research. By integrating the "old" embodied and the "new" relational traditions, the book contributes to a new 1 clinical perspective focusing on form and process rather than content and structure - the "how", rather than the "what" and the "why" This perspective is characterized by a focus on movement, emotional interaction, and the therapist's own bodily experience in the analytic encounter. Jon Sletvold presents a user-friendly approach to embodied experience, providing the history, theory, training, and practice of embodied experience and expression as a way of expanding clinical attention. Starting with a Spinozan view of the embodied mind, Part One: History of embodied psychoanalysis presents an overview of the history of the field in the works of Freud and Reich as well as a look at the Norwegian Character Analytic tradition. Part Two: Conceptual framework and clinical guidelines explains how clinical interaction can be navigated based on the embodied concepts of subjectivity, intersubjectivity, and reflexivity. Part Three: Embodied training and supervision presents innovative approaches to training in emotional communication inspired by the performing arts. The book ends with a consideration of the embodied analyst in the twenty- first century consulting room. Capturing key aspects of a transitional movement in the development of psychoanalysis and psychotherapy, The Embodied Analyst is ideal for those working and training in psychoanalysis and psychotherapy. Book jacket.

Contents:

The history of embodied analysis : Freud and Reich

Character analysis and Reichian body-work

The Norwegian character analytic tradition

Navigating clinical interaction : memory and overview

Embodied subjectivity : Freud's "ich" and the embodied self

Embodied intersubjectivity : "you" in mind

Embodied reflexivity : "we" in mind

Clinical perspectives on two body psychology

Training to work with unconscious embodied expressions

Embodied supervision : making unconscious relational experience conscious

The embodied analyst in the 21st-century consulting room.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780415856188

0415856183

9780415856195

0415856191

OCLC:

857717718