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Body Psychotherapy

Contemporary Body Psychotherapy

The Chiron Approach

Contemporary Body Psychotherapy
  • Edited by Linda Hartley.

Published August 2008

Contemporary Body Psychotherapy: The Chiron Approach looks at the ground-breaking work of the London based Chiron Centre for Body Psychotherapy, a training centre recognised worldwide by professionals in the field. The book brings together Chiron trainers and therapists, describing how their…
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Bodies In Treatment

The Unspoken Dimension

Bodies In Treatment
  • Edited by Frances Sommer Anderson.

Published June 2007

Bodies in Treatment is a challenging volume that brings into conceptual focus an "unspoken dimension" of clinical work - the body and nonverbal communication - that has long occupied the shadowy realm of tacit knowledge. By bringing visceral, sensory, and imagistic modes of emotional processing to…
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About a Body

Working with the Embodied Mind in Psychotherapy

About a Body
  • Edited by Jenny Corrigall, Helen Payne and Heward Wilkinson.

Published August 2006

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…
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Dance Movement Therapy

Theory, Research and Practice

Dance Movement Therapy
  • Edited by Helen Payne.

Published May 2006

What can dance movement contribute to psychotherapy? This thoroughly updated edition of Dance Movement Therapy echoes the increased world-wide interest in dance movement therapy and makes a strong contribution to the emerging awareness of the nature of embodiment in psychotherapy. Recent…
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Weight Wisdom

Affirmations to Free You from Food and Body Concerns

Weight Wisdom
  • By Kathleen Burns Kingsbury, and Mary Ellen Williams.

Published July 2003

In this powerful guide, Kingsbury and Williams equip readers with simple reflections, vignettes, and everyday analogies that they have successfully used with their own clients to counter destructive feelings and shatter distorted ideas of food and weight. Pithy and positive statements replace…
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Body Psychotherapy

Body Psychotherapy
  • Edited by Tree Staunton.

Published April 2002

In the past the practice of body psychotherapy has been taken less seriously in professional circles than more traditional psychotherapeutic approaches.Body Psychotherapy redresses the balance, offering insights into a spectrum of approaches within body-oriented psychotherapy. A range of…
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Relational Perspectives on the Body

Relational Perspectives on the Body
  • Edited by Lewis Aron, and Frances Sommer Anderson.

Published September 2000

Contemporary psychoanalysis has devoted so much of its attention to relational and interpersonal aspects of psychic life that questions have begun to emerge regarding the place of the body and bodily experience in our psychological worlds. Relational Perspectives on the Body addresses these…
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