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For many years psychotherapy and neuroscience have been estranged;
existing on opposite ends of the spectrum concerned with the
investigation of the mind. However in recent years, these two
opposing schools of thought have found their paths converging so
that now a mutually rewarding relationship is taking its first
faltering steps towards greater
In recent years there has been a cautious movement towards seeing
psychotherapy and counselling as arts not as sciences. In this
rich, yet rigorous, multidisciplinary text, this movement is
explored in terms of poetry; therapy; dreams; literary texts;
Heideggerian, Kantian, and post-modern philosophy; the modern
developmental theorising of Daniel S
This book explores and develops a powerful and crucial analogy
between psychotherapy and poetry which constitutes a new model or
paradigm for psychotherapy. Put in a brief sentence it says:
Therapy is a form of poesis, and poesis in turn is therapeutic, or
pertains to therapy.Nested within the general framework and
analogy, the book, secondly, develops a powerful three-aspect model
of both poetry and psychotherapy which synoptically overviews the
whole range of the psychotherapies, and enables us to evoke the
several simultaneous aspects which are continuously involved in our
work. In doing so it gives the most elusive, but also most
fundamental, aspects of psychotherapy a name, and a fully developed
conceptual-philosophical foundation perhaps for the first time
while relating them to and integrating them with, more familiar
aspects.
For many years psychotherapy and neuroscience have been estranged,
existing on opposite ends of the spectrum concerned with the
investigation of the mind. However, in recent years, these two
opposing schools of thought have found their paths converging so
that now a mutually rewarding relationship is taking its first
steps towards greater co-operation and understanding. The UKCP
conference was one such step. Leading experts in affective
neuroscience and psychotherapy attended and gave lectures that
integrated material and theories from a number of fields on diverse
subjects such as infant development and the relationship between
emotion and consciousness. These talks highlighted the benefit of
greater contact between these fields, with practical examples as
well as theoretical. This innovative collection is one of the first
to emphasise and demonstrate the value of greater unity and is an
essential introduction for all to this burgeoning area of research.
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 counseling.
The body is viewed as integral to the mind in this book and in the
approaches illustrated in it. Instead of splitting off the body and
treating the patient as a body with a mind, contributors from a
variety of approaches ask the reader to consider how we might be
with, and work with, "bodymind" as an interrelated whole. Subjects
covered include:
- The application of affective neuroscience understandings to life
as well as to clinical issues
- The body in psychotherapy with a person who is facing death
- The history, significance and scope of body psychotherapy
today
- Psychoanalytic approaches to working with the embodied mind
- Authentic Movement groups in the development of wellbeing in our
bodymindspirit
- The body and spirituality
This book is unique in its pluralism: it includes a wide range of
differing views of the importance of the body in psychotherapy,
both in theory and in practice, and it relates these to the latest
discussions in affective neuroscience. It will be invaluable for
those working in, or studying, psychotherapy and counseling, and
will also interest those working generally in the mental health
field.
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