1st Edition

About a Body Working with the Embodied Mind in Psychotherapy

Edited By Jenny Corrigall, Helen Payne, Heward Wilkinson Copyright 2006
248 Pages
by Routledge

248 Pages
by Routledge

248 Pages
by Routledge

How does our body reveal us to ourselves? The body can inform the work we do in mental health. This unique collection invites the reader to consider the way we think about the embodied mind, and how it can inform both our lives and our work in psychotherapy and counselling. The body is viewed as integral to the mind in this book, and in the approaches illustrated in it. Instead of... Read more

J. Corrigall, H. Payne, H. Wilkinson, Embodiment in Psychotherapy. J. Panksepp, Archeology of Mind. R. Carroll, Archeology of Mind: Discussion. R. Carroll, S. Orbach, Approaches to the Body. P. Mollon, Beyond the Talk. M. Soth, What Therapeutic Hope for a Subjective Mind in an Objectified Body? B. Zabriskie, When Psyche Meets Soma. G. Boyesen, The Use of Voice in Biodynamic Psychotherapy J. Schaverien, Transference and the Meaning of Touch. M. Sills, Embodied Presence within the Relational Field. C. Herbert, Cognitive Behavioural Therapy in Trauma Work.

Biography

Jenny Corrigall is a research psychologist and a psychoanalytic psychotherapist, working in Cambridge.

Helen Payne is Reader in Counselling and Psychotherapy at the University of Hertfordshire and a Senior Registered Dance Movement Therapist. She is Editor for the International Journal for Body, Movement and Dance in Psychotherapy.

Heward Wilkinson is co-founder of the Scarborough Psychotherapy Training Institute, until recently was Chair of the Humanistic and Integrative Section of the United Kingdom Council for Psychotherapy, and was Editor of the International Journal of Psychotherapy 1996-2004.