1st Edition

The Embodied Self Movement and Psychoanalysis

By Katya Bloom Copyright 2006
244 Pages
by Routledge

244 Pages
by Routledge

242 Pages
by Routledge

By integrating principles from her background as a movement psychotherapist and movement analyst with key concepts from contemporary psychoanalysis, the author offers a new perspective on exploring the interrelationships between nonverbal and verbal 'articulation' in any therapy setting. The Embodied Self provides a practical and experiential working model for developing therapists' embodied... Read more
Foreword -- Preface -- Overview and Theory -- Laying the groundwork -- The language of movement: embodying psychic processes -- On the meaning of the body from a psychoanalytic perspective -- Embodied attentiveness: a synthesis of frameworks -- Psychoanalytic Observational Studies -- Introduction -- One infant's manic manipulation of space and time -- The infant's language -- Falling into space -- The social arena of the nursery -- Clinical Case Studies -- Introduction -- “I don't know where I come from” -- “I don't know where I'm going” -- Signals from the solar plexus -- Summary of Part III -- Conclusions

Biography

Katya Bloom