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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 the forefront,
Editor Frances Sommer Anderson and the contributors to this
original collection expand the domain of psychodynamic engagement.
Working at the leading edge of psychoanalytic theory and practice,
and in the forefront of the integrative psychotherapy movement,
Anderson has created a collaborative project that stimulates
interdisciplinary dialogue on the developmental neurobiology of
attachment, the micro-processing of interchanges between the infant
and caregiver, the neuroscience of emotional processing and trauma,
body-focused talking treatments for trauma, and research in
cognitive science. Enlightened by experiencing body-based
treatments for thirty years, Anderson reflects on the powerful
impact of these interventions, recounting attempts to integrate her
somatically-informed discoveries into the "talking" frame. Reaching
further, her contributors present richly informative accounts of
how experiences in body-based modalities can be creatively
integrated into a psychoanalytic framework of treatment. Readers
are introduced to specialized modalities, such as craniosacral
therapy and polarity therapy, as well as to the adjunctive use of
yoga, the effectiveness of which can be grounded
neurophysiologically. Somatic interventions are discussed in terms
of the extent to which they can promote depth-psychological change
outside the psychoanalytic consulting room as well as how they can
enrich the relational process in psychodynamic treatment. The final
sections of Bodies in Treatment explore the range of ways in which
patients' and therapists' bodies engage, sustain, and contain the
dynamics of treatment.
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 the forefront, editor
Frances Sommer Anderson and the contributors to this original
collection expand the domain of psychodynamic engagement. Working
at the leading edge of psychoanalytic theory and practice, and in
the forefront of the integrative psychotherapy movement, Anderson
has created a collaborative project that stimulates
interdisciplinary dialogue on the developmental neurobiology of
attachment, the micro-processing of interchanges between the infant
and caregiver, the neuroscience of emotional processing and trauma,
body-focused talking treatments for trauma, and research in
cognitive science.
Enlightened by experiencing body-based treatments for thirty years,
Anderson reflects on the powerful impact of these interventions,
recounting attempts to integrate her somatically-informed
discoveries into the talking frame. Reaching further, her
contributors present richly informative accounts of how experiences
in body-based modalities can be creatively integrated into a
psychoanalytic framework of treatment. Readers are introduced to
specialized modalities, such as craniosacral therapy and polarity
therapy, as well as to the adjunctive use of yoga, the
effectiveness of which can be grounded neurophysiologically.
Somatic interventions are discussed in terms of the extent to which
they can promote depth-psychological change outside the
psychoanalytic consulting room as well as how they canenrich the
relational process in psychodynamic treatment. The final sections
of Bodies in Treatment explore the range of ways in which patients?
and therapists? bodies engage, sustain, and contain the dynamics of
treatment.
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 questions in exemplary fashion.
Contemporary relational theorists synthesize a variety of
theoretical trends and influences - including feminism and
postmodernism - in order to provide innovative relational models of
psyche-soma integration. Throughout the book, contributors pay
attention to the analysand's and the analyst's experiences as they
devise original technical responses to the multifaceted ways in
which bodily experiences enter into the relational matrix of
psychoanalytic treatment. In the process, contributors take up
subjects that are seldom addressed in the clinical literature,
including breast cancer in the analyst, psychoanalytic treatment of
Munchausen's Syndrome, physical deformity, and musculoskeletal back
pain. The final three chapters, by Looker, Balamuth, and Anderson,
respectively, grew out of a study group that continues to
investigate the relationship between somatic and symbolized
experience.
The editors are well equipped to undertake this project. Lewis Aron
is a leading relational theorist and clinical analyst, and Frances
Sommer Anderson has employed a psychoanalytically informed approach
to treating musculoskeletal back pain and other somatic symptoms
for 18 years. The editors have enlisted original contributions from
an excellent group of colleagues, placing Relational Perspectives
on the Body at the forefront of the revival of interest in the body
and bodilyexperience in psychoanalytic theory and practice.
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