Traditional psychotherapy approaches, focusing on
working with and correcting mental events and
conditions, have placed little importance on the
fundamentally physical nature of the person. Yet many of
the problems people bring to therapy are linked with or
manifested in the body--such as obesity, psychosomatic
distress, chronic tension, and sexual problems. This
book provides a therapeutic approach that addresses both
the physical and mental nature of clients. In this book,
James Kepner shows that a client's posture, movements,
and bodily experiences are indeed relevant to therapy,
and he offers an insightful framework for incorporating
these aspects into a therapeutic framework. This
comprehensive treatment explains how body work can be
integrated with the aims, methods, and philosophy of
psychotherapy, offering a framework within which
practitioners of different theoretical approaches can
better appreciate body processes in the context of the
whole person, rather than as isolated events.This book,
including an updated introduction by the author,
explores the range of body work in psychotherapy, from
the development of body awareness to intensive work with
physical structure and expression. And it demonstrates
how this approach can be particularly effective with a
range of clients, including survivors of sexual abuse,
recovering drug addicts or alcoholics, or those
suffering from chronic illness. |
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