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Trauma and the Body: A Sensorimotor Approach to Psychotherapy
Kekuni Minton
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Description for Trauma and the Body: A Sensorimotor Approach to Psychotherapy
Hardback. The body, for a host of reasons, has been left out of the "talking cure." Series: Norton Series on Interpersonal Neurobiology. Num Pages: 384 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: MJN. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 236 x 163 x 29. Weight in Grams: 738.
Psychotherapists who have been trained in models of psychodynamic, psychoanalytic, or cognitive therapeutic approaches are skilled at listening to the language and affect of the client. They track the clients' associations, fantasies, and signs of psychic conflict, distress, and defenses. Yet while the majority of therapists are trained to notice the appearance and even the movements of the client's body, thoughtful engagement with the client's embodied experience has remained peripheral to traditional therapeutic interventions. Trauma and the Body is a detailed review of research in neuroscience, trauma, dissociation, and attachment theory that points to the need for an integrative mind-body ... Read more
Psychotherapists who have been trained in models of psychodynamic, psychoanalytic, or cognitive therapeutic approaches are skilled at listening to the language and affect of the client. They track the clients' associations, fantasies, and signs of psychic conflict, distress, and defenses. Yet while the majority of therapists are trained to notice the appearance and even the movements of the client's body, thoughtful engagement with the client's embodied experience has remained peripheral to traditional therapeutic interventions. Trauma and the Body is a detailed review of research in neuroscience, trauma, dissociation, and attachment theory that points to the need for an integrative mind-body ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
WW Norton & Co United States
Number of pages
320
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2006
Condition
New
Number of Pages
384
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780393704570
SKU
V9780393704570
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About Kekuni Minton
Kekuni Minton, Ph.D., is a faculty member at Naropa University. Pat Ogden, PhD, a pioneer in somatic psychology, is the founder of the Sensorimotor Psychotherapy Institute and the author of Sensorimotor Psychotherapy, Trauma and the Body, and The Pocket Guide to Sensorimotor Psychotherapy in Context. She lives in Boulder, Colorado. Clare Pain, M.D., is Assistant Professor of Psychiatry at the ... Read more
Reviews for Trauma and the Body: A Sensorimotor Approach to Psychotherapy
"I strongly recommend this fascinating and essential reading...it offers clinicians of all orientations a variety of psychosomatic treatment strategies."
Julia Mueller - Journal of Psychosomatic Research "This book will be read and valued by researchers and clinicians alike, as well as academics and those who already practice body-oriented psychotherapies. This is a rare achievement. . . . [H]ighly recommended." ... Read more
Julia Mueller - Journal of Psychosomatic Research "This book will be read and valued by researchers and clinicians alike, as well as academics and those who already practice body-oriented psychotherapies. This is a rare achievement. . . . [H]ighly recommended." ... Read more