Touching the relational edge : body psychotherapy / by Asaf Rolef Ben-Shahar.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Rolef Ben-Shahar, Asaf, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Mind and body therapies.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (417 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Boca Raton, FL : Routledge, an imprint of Taylor and Francis, [2018].

Language Note:

English

Summary:

The psychotherapeutic encounter is a meeting between embodied psyches, bodies present in the room, speaking with each another, impacting and impacted by one another; bodies who are waiting for us to listen to them and dialogue with them - and speak on their behalf. The field of body psychotherapy has been exploring this embodied dialogue since the 1930s. The book "Touching the Relational Edge" delves into the history of body-psychotherapy, offering theoretical and clinical conceptualisations and insights and is rich with clinical vignettes and applicable exercise, all aimed to provide the reader with a theoretical and experiential understanding of the place of the body in psychotherapy - allowing the reader a dynamic, curious and affective engagement. The book opens a window into the cutting-edge world of relational body-psychotherapy, offering the reader a personal and professional journey into the depth of therapeutic relationship as seen through anatomical and relational eyes.

Contents:

CHAPTER SEVEN The language of the body: further concepts in body psychotherapy PART III CLINICAL; CHAPTER EIGHT Embodied therapeutic dialogues; CHAPTER NINE Body psychotherapeutic skills; CHAPTER TEN One tender touch: touch in body psychotherapy; CHAPTER ELEVEN Gliding on the strings that connect us: resonance in body psychotherapy; SUMMARY; APPENDIX; GLOSSARY; REFERENCES; INDEX

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed March 12, 2014).

ISBN:

0-429-92310-4

0-429-90887-3

0-429-48410-0

1-78241-212-3

9780429484100

OCLC:

871190050