Body Process

A Gestalt Approach to Working with the Body in Psychotherapy
1. Auflage 1997
ISBN: 978-0-88163-283-5
Verlag: Gestalt Press

Buch, Englisch, 266 Seiten, Format (B × H): 140 mm x 216 mm, Gewicht: 337 g

Traditional psychotherapy approaches, focusing on working with and correcting mental events and conditions, have placed little importance on the fundamentally physical nature of the person. Yet many of the problems people bring to therapy are linked with or manifested in the body--such as obesity, psychosomatic distress, chronic tension, and sexual problems. This book provides a therapeutic approach that addresses both the physical and mental nature of clients.

In this book, James Kepner shows that a client's posture, movements, and bodily experiences are indeed relevant to therapy, and he offers an insightful framework for incorporating these aspects into a therapeutic framework. This comprehensive treatment explains how body work can be integrated with the aims, methods, and philosophy of psychotherapy, offering a framework within which practitioners of different theoretical approaches can better appreciate body processes in the context of the whole person, rather than as isolated events.

This book, including an updated introduction by the author, explores the range of body work in psychotherapy, from the development of body awareness to intensive work with physical structure and expression. And it demonstrates how this approach can be particularly effective with a range of clients, including survivors of sexual abuse, recovering drug addicts or alcoholics, or those suffering from chronic illness.

Zielgruppe

Professional and Professional Practice & Development

Autoren/Hrsg.

Kepner, James I.

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Psychologie Psychotherapie / Klinische Psychologie
• Medizin | Veterinärmedizin Medizin | Public Health | Pharmazie | Zahnmedizin Medizinische Fachgebiete Psychiatrie, Sozialpsychiatrie, Suchttherapie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction: Body Process and Psychotherapy. Part I: Basic Principles. Self and Embodiment. The Body and the Disowned Self. Approaching the "Person as a Whole." Structure and Process: The Organization of Body and Self. Resistance and Body Process. The Therapeutic Use of Touch. Part II: Body Phenomena and the Cycle of Experience. Sensation and Body Process. Figure Formation and Body Process. Mobilization and Body Process. Action and Body Process. Contact, Final Contact, and Body Process. Withdrawal, Assimilation, and Body Process. Appendix: A Comparison of Reichian and Gestalt Therapies.

Über Autor(innen)

James I. Kepner, Ph.D., is co-founder and chair of the advanced training program Working with Physical Process as the Gestalt Institute of Cleveland. A pioneer in clinical work with the embodiment of experience, he teaches this work widely around the world. Kepner's own clinical grounding is supplemented by training in a wide range of healing arts. He is also the author of Healing Tasks: Psychotherapy with Adult Survivors of Childhood Abuse.