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Those who are highly compliant will do it but as a performance or to please you, the therapist, rather than as a genuine voyage of discovery. The internal dialogue then lacks energy and does not go anywhere because the compliance is sitting on top of it. Or the client will not want to do it at all out of a fear of being vulnerable or exposed or not in control.

Secondly, the empty chair does not work well with highly divided clients such as borderline clients who have deeply split object relations Yontef In this case the experiment of internal dialogue makes the client feel more intensely and worse, without resolution. Again, the therapist has to focus instead on the material arising in the therapeutic relationship, and there is usually plenty of that.

With the increasing prevalence of narcissistic and borderline disorders in our consulting rooms, there are good reasons why the empty chair technique is used less, even though in the right circumstances it is very useful. Projection occurs when what is actually part of oneself is located in other people or 54 Alun Reynolds even in objects. For example, our disowned anger may be experienced by us as anger of others towards us.

Originally Fritz Perls The gestalt term for this is inclusion, in the sense that the therapist includes herself into the world of the client. There may be irritation towards the outside world which carries the projection. An example of this is an unfriendly person who always complains others are rejecting him. And projection is at the heart of much paranoia and prejudice. An example would be hugging others or being kind to others, with the underlying wish that others will hug you or be kind to you.

An important task of therapy is to re-own these projections, to take responsibility and not be just a hapless victim. Often there is a grain of truth in the projection so acknowledgment of this helps the disengagement. As you experienced above, one way of working with projections is to make use of the classic gestalt experiment of the empty chair in which one dialogues between oneself and the disowned parts. Awareness of projections may also increase with reversal, so if you suspect someone is rejecting you, then reverse the process and see on what grounds you are rejecting them.

Desensitisation—sensitisation A common way of avoiding awareness is to desensitise so that we do not feel what is really going on in our deeper layers but only feel the surface. At some Gestalt body psychotherapy 55 level we realise this, feel dead, and respond by increasing the stimuli often several at once, e.

Or this may initially show up as being oversensitive to our internal and external world, leading to hysterical responses and ultimate withdrawal to be able to cope. Sensing and meditation practices, such as those mentioned earlier, help restore the ground for being present with our here and now experience, whatever that is. Introjection—chewing—rejection and the superego As we inquire into anything, one of the unhelpful forces that tends to come up is the inner critic or superego that wants to keep things stable and restore things to how they have always been, not because that is the optimum way of being but because there is some sort of safety and security in the familiar, however horrible and dysfunctional it may be.

In gestalt terms, the parental voice that tells us things should be done a particular way is introjected or swallowed whole. Introjects can also be loosened using the empty chair, allowing the topdog inner critic to dialogue with our underdog soul child. Another way is through the Fritz Perls eating exercises, to encourage healthy chewing and spitting out rather than swallowing whole from others, not just food but ideas, feelings and sensations Perls et al.

And of course there is always phenomenological inquiry; especially inquiring into ways in which we are a harsh critic to others or ourselves, as well as inquiring into what we think is right, good or strong about doing so. If you have a rejecting style of contact with the world or with yourself, then the rejecting object relation may need exploring from both sides. You may identify more with the part that rejects or the part that is rejected or with both. Similar methods of dialogue and internal inquiry can be used. The negative aspects may show up bodily in tight muscles, limited breathing, and psychosomatic symptoms like headaches, stomach upsets and arthritis, as well as 56 Alun Reynolds emotional and behavioural symptoms such as self-harm and self-torment through a harsh inner critic.

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These can be exaggerated or taken over Kurtz We can do ego motoric work such as the Lowen exercises Lowen and Lowen Using the empty chair, we can dialogue between the topdog repressor and the underdog repressed parts of ourselves. Or later in life, we may experience a melting with our sexual partner or oneness with the universe. In extreme cases, this gives us the split object relations of the borderline personality Masterson , , but given that our upbringing is never perfect, all of us to some extent experience something of the same dilemma when negotiating a healthy balance between closeness and independence.

Sensing, breathing, movement and other body awareness exercises help support the ground for healthy separation, for therapists as well as their clients. A positive use of egotism is when you as a therapist or client use your observing ego in a therapy session, or when anyone constrains impulsivity with a big purchase like buying a house or a new car.

With unhealthy egotism, we try to control the uncontrollable or surprising aspects of life, leading to a deadness and dullness so that we are lacklustre, lacking true spontaneity. Again, we can inquire into the ways we block spontaneity Gestalt body psychotherapy 57 and the beliefs behind the blocking.

And, we can connect more with our here and now sensations, feelings and thoughts so that our talking becomes rooted in our here and now experience. Reaction formation—responsiveness Reaction formation occurs when we do the opposite of the inner impulse, so that our secondary reaction replaces the original primary feeling. For example, hate can mask love, rage or self-pity can cover grief, compliance can be a substitute for anger, guilt avoids resentment, and aggression can hide fear or anxiety.

A common trap is to be diverted by the expression of secondary feelings, which is circular and self-defeating.

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Resolution is found in the expression of primary feelings, leading to action and completion. And anchoring in body sensations, breathing, and here and now primary feelings can help the client to focus on what really matters. I—Thou gestalt Another aspect of our work that gestalt sheds light on is the therapist—client relationship.


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Both are part of therapy, but according to Buber, it is I—Thou relating that is the more important for healing and becoming a full person. Strategic or I—It relating is about us trying to get somewhere or trying to do something. Even if the client is coming in order to learn to be more authentic, that is still in the context of a strategic relationship. We relate strategically to clients right from the start in establishing the therapeutic alliance, when either we as therapists or our clients have aims, when we are working with the transference and countertransference, when we are taking a back-seat or eagle-eye view, or when we are thinking about clients or taking them to supervision.

Authentic or I—Thou relating between the therapist and the client is about us being together in the room, in a person to person dialogue, without strategy 58 Alun Reynolds or aim. Despite its importance, authentic relating cannot be made to happen: However, the I—Thou relationship calls on the client to see the therapist as another real person rather than through the veil of their own transference. Therefore I—Thou relating is contraindicated when working with those with strongly habitual characterological patterns such as those with masochistic, borderline or narcissistic tendencies for which a more transferential understanding and way of working is more needed.

This was recognised in the third year courses which over time increasingly brought a more psychodynamic way of working into the training see chapters by Soth and Asheri. And above all, I give thanks to my own parents and ancestors whose presence in my heart enables me to do the work I love so much. True Guidance for the Inner Journey.

T and T Clark. British Gestalt Journal 5 2: British Gestalt Journal 2 2: British Gestalt Journal 12 1: Awakening the Ordinary Miracle of Healing. A Manual of Bioenergetic Exercises. Gestalt Institute of Cleveland and Gardner Press. Writings on Psychodrama, Group Method, and Spontaneity. The Attitude and Practice of an Atheoretical Experientialism.

Science and Behaviour Books Perls, F. Excitement and Growth in the Human Personality. British Gestalt Journal 4 1: A New Approach to Contact and Resistance. In The crucible, Soth, Carroll, Asheri and Ablack share aspects of their work, exploring the development of core principles of the Chiron approach from their individual perspectives. Although a more or less linear path of development can be extrapolated in retrospect, as Soth outlines, he also acknowledges that the process of evolution was more spirallic in nature — a weaving and interweaving of many threads of theory and practice forms the rich, complex, and sophisticated tapestry that evolved.

A central aim of psychotherapy is the development of self-regulation, the capacity to monitor internal processes of the bodymind and orient the whole organism towards balanced function; this is ideally learnt in infancy through responsive parenting. Roz Carroll continues in Chapter 5 with a discussion of this core principle from her perspective as a Chiron therapist.

When this dimension of experience is consciously explored within the therapeutic relationship, it enriches the multi-layered nature of integral relational psychotherapy and reveals another level of truth. A journey has been made, and in looking back on the path we identify particular stations along the way which we can now connect in our mind as if the route had been there all along. However, as the poet Antonio Machado reminds us: Whenever a previous identity is challenged and eventually transcended, an experience of loss and death occurs — this is a necessary ingredient in transformation.

How do we understand and frame that identity in any stable, coherent 66 Michael Soth sense as well as remaining open to its evolution and possibly radical revision? Both as a community of practitioners and as a training organisation we had to struggle with these questions. In evaluating these, I wonder: How thoroughly are earlier positions revised or deconstructed? To what extent are earlier positions included in any transcending synthesis or fudged, ignored or forgotten? This distinction is debatable, as in some ways we may view each phase as just a further incremental extension of the previous one.

However, this would fail to take into account the radical discontinuities involved in each shift. I am proposing to think in terms of three such quantum leaps, as each time a thorough deconstruction and contradiction of previously held principles was necessary, involving painful struggles and shedding of once precious beliefs. I explain the apparent incremental continuity through the fact that in each transformation the previous identity was indeed included, not only transcended. One example Figure 4. Slowly then, we began turning the principles of other therapies upon ourselves, exposing us to severe and radical critique by other approaches psychodynamic, Jungian, existential etc.

The question then becomes: However, the Reichian tradition — we began to realise — had always had a strong bias towards the therapist as expert-doctor, and had followed standard medical procedure in terms of diagnosis, application of theory and treatment. With hindsight it is apparent that we were part of a wider movement and that similar ideas e. There were advantages to remaining relatively undisturbed and unpublicised: It is only when we transcend these dualisms6 that some of the paradoxes inherent in psychotherapeutic work can be embraced as necessary and creative.

Much of the dogmatism and tribal parochialism pervading psychotherapy theory and training is structured by an avoidance of the paradox at the heart of therapy: Recognising the relativity of any amongst a vast diversity of positions rather than seeing each position as an absolute , prepares us for attending to relational context. Through parallel process we begin to understand how pathology maintains itself, both individually and collectively: From such a perspective, we glimpse also how the pathologies of our profession maintain themselves.

This may give us some ideas how to engage with the established splits and fault lines running through psychotherapy as we know it. In applying these notions, derived from Kleinian thought, to our own development both as a community of practitioners and as a therapy organisation, I was drawing on models and assumptions in many ways antagonistic to Chiron culture in order to highlight aspects of our shadow. Or do we at some point react against the pain and disappointed longing inherent in this addiction to idealisation, and make ourselves a home in a determined, yet bitter, refutation of it?

He sees all perceiving and thinking as arising in the context of character and the emotional wounding at its root. Beliefs, assumptions and world views of all kinds arise through a personal, subjective history and are conditioned by it. For myself, this involved 78 Michael Soth Figure 4. I was seeing him and — by extension — everything male including myself through her eyes only.

By idealising expression and catharsis, I had contributed to an underlying lack of containment and implicit re-traumatisation, both in myself and my work. Klein — having represented the antithesis of everything I believed in — now became a source of support.


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As a result I had been trapped in literalism, with an understanding of the body only as concrete and physical. Most of these developments can be seen as a process of losing my idealised notions, discovering the shadow aspects hidden beneath them and opening up to other approaches better suited to naming and dealing with these areas traditionally neglected by body psychotherapy. For a long time, the integrative project still co-existed within me next to unquestioned medical model assumptions: There was no From holistic to integral-relational body psychotherapy 81 doubt in my mind that essentially I was being paid to deliver doctor-like interventions.

I see nothing wrong with me wanting to protect myself in what is in many respects a painful and impossible job. But the problem was that these protections operated in habitual and unconscious ways which I was largely oblivious of. With hindsight I do not doubt that during these years I did much useful work for many clients from within and in spite of my habitual position. But I now question whether the work actually delivered what at the time I claimed to provide: I now realised that the same also applied to body psychotherapy as I was practising it.

With every breakthrough I contrived to engineer, further weaknesses in their armour were exposed, only for the defences to be strengthened and to become more impenetrable next time. How pervasive is the transference? One important thing I noticed, however: It dawned on me that in these moments of intense transference, my intentions, my feelings, my reality were no longer clear and transparent to the client. Previously I had assumed that transference and working alliance were clearly distinguishable and that transference was like a lake of irrationality in the otherwise solid territory of the alliance; that at least the therapist — if not the client — could reliably monitor the therapeutic path when it descended and led through that lake of projections and misperceptions.

These are common assumptions amongst humanistic practitioners who do take account of the transference. But how strong, really, is that capacity, and how easily recoverable when lost? Searching through the analytic traditions, I found a wide divergence of assumptions regarding these questions. I increasingly doubted the archetypal metaphors underlying my practice and wondered whether they were not self-protective wishful fantasies, the products of an ego fancying itself as having much more awareness, insight and agency than was actually the case.

What if the underlying power distribution between unconscious and conscious was reversed? Often I went out of my way to counteract what I perceived as a dangerous, destructive enactment. He needs to rediscover faith in his own judgement, rather than further introject — now from me as the new authority.

The more I enquired into my practice through this perspective, the more obvious it became to me that these were not isolated incidents, but that layers and layers of pervasive enactment are the norm — they constitute the territory we work within. I formulated the following principle Soth The necessity of attunement opens me to an enmeshment on the level of unconscious communication which I no longer imagined my therapeutic ego to be separate from. This led me to the notion: If I can embrace the fact that many of my therapeutic responses are an unconscious acting-out of the countertransference, I am more free to attend to how enactment happens via intervention.

I grew less invested in my position as a therapist, and less threatened by the swirling cauldron which I more and more recognised as a fairly perennial feature in the underworld of the therapeutic relationship. This culminated in questions such as how to surrender to enactment, how to apprehend it in all 84 Michael Soth Figure 4. Whilst as therapists we do not argue with the validity claims of these views on a philosophical level, from our perspective they are at best partial accounts of the much more complex phenomenon of development.

A discussion contrasting linear, cyclic and holistic notions of development and their integration is beyond the scope of this chapter. Whilst systemic-integral ideas can be applied to all kinds of inanimate and living systems, I focus here on psychological development.

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What happens to the initial idealisation that drives our investment in therapy or therapy training? Here an understanding of the internalised object as bodymind process becomes essential. We are less likely to presume our theories as taken-forgranted consensual reality if we recognise that reality as socially and subjectively constructed rather than simply and objectively given.

The irony is, of course, that as a discipline psychotherapy is ideally suited to champion subjectivity and to corroborate abstract postmodernist philosophy by grounding it in psychological depth: How the implicit relational stance communicates itself subliminally from right-brain to right-brain has been elucidated amply by neuroscience Schore Intersubjectivity and Gender in Psychoanalysis. Psychoanalysis of the Unthought Known. Vol XI Collected Works. D and Esterson, A. The Search for the True Self. The Fate of Romance over Time. Negotiation of Paradox in Psychoanalysis. An Essay on Interpretation.

New Dimensions in Body Psychotherapy. Therapy Today, 16 9. A View from Psychoanalysis and Development Psychology. International Journal of Psycho-Analysis Foundations of a Theory of Personal Contact. A Transpersonal View of Human Development. Chapter 5 Self-regulation — an evolving concept at the heart of body psychotherapy Roz Carroll Appealing to the body as some sort of absolute ground, immune to the demands of relativism, is tempting but unhelpful.

However, bodies in relationship can generate an authenticity of contact that carries its own authority, and that grounds psychotherapy in ways which allow creative transformation. Despite variations in the theory of how self-regulation is achieved, it is generally perceived to be an attribute of a dynamic ongoing organismic process — a movement towards balance, self-expression and health.

These include heart rate, body temperature, breathing, blood pressure, and metabolism and must be kept within a certain range for physical wellbeing, and indeed for survival. The complementary function of the parasympathetic nervous system is associated with rest, digestion and relaxation Carroll a. Homeostasis is the prototype for the broader term of self-regulation which is now used in a range of contexts psychotherapy, child development, education, sports psychology to describe the internal rules of a system, including learning styles and how individuals manage feelings, impulses and bodily states.

Europe in the s—s was the birthplace of a modern wave of ideas about emotion and the relationship between mind and body. Discoveries in physiology, medicine, neurology and psychology created excitement amongst intellectuals in Paris, Berlin, Vienna, Oslo and London Heller Many were inspired with the idea that the principles of living systems had been grasped, and could be taken and applied therapeutically. Reich considered that restriction of breathing was the prototypical defence against feeling, at the root of character armour.

I remember as a first year trainee doing a practice vegetotherapy session with another student. After a while her legs started to twitch and I encouraged her to stay with the feeling in them. This provoked a dramatic reaction: I supported this process by giving some resistance to her feet as she pushed them alternately into my hands, and by asking her to make eye contact and direct her verbal tirade at me. Later she talked about what she was feeling and thinking as this process had unfolded. She had been sexually abused as a child, and my words had triggered a rage which she had not previously been able to identify and link so clearly and immediately with that abuse.

Kerry and I were both pleased that she had been able to feel and show her anger. She was able to breathe more freely, and feel her legs as more alive and connected to the ground. This trust in the process, and in paying close attention to the body, remains central to the Chiron approach.

Self-regulation incorporates defences and has its own internal logic As a student at Chiron I gained an experiential knowledge of body processes and particularly how certain core experiences of fear, rage, longing or excitement move and enliven the body when it feels safe to surrender to them. Yet at Chiron there was also a strong emphasis both on grasping the transference, and on deconstructing and updating the frameworks of the body psychotherapy tradition see chapters by Eiden and Soth. There was a focus on understanding and getting a bodily sense of internalised relationships and the way in which unconscious structures are perpetuated.

In my third year of training I had another key learning experience.


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The assistant role-played a difficult client and trainees took turns to work as therapist with her. The exercise was designed to get us to focus on what was actually going on between client and therapist. Some clients easily identify with the idea of getting in touch with their body and letting it speak, others gradually come to appreciate the potential of listening to their body. In this case selfregulation can be developed and invited through both client and therapist paying close attention to sensation, breathing, imagery and movement Landale Self-regulation — an evolving concept 93 For others this way of working poses a considerable challenge to their normal mode of managing and thinking.

Body psychotherapists learn to engage relationally and use their understanding and awareness of the client to gauge both content and mode of exploration. The body may be idealised as a source of wisdom, power or pleasure or denigrated evoking a range of feelings including disgust, suspicion and hatred. Is she unable to feel her body or does she feel too much? There will inevitably be tangled layers of impulse, defence, contradiction and creative adaptation to circumstances, family and cultural systems. Often the clue to what sustains a particular way of being is contained in a phrase or image which holds a powerful meaning.

I found that the best way into a more spontaneous exploration of a process with him was through drawing his attention to the imagery embedded in his narrative. He felt safe with words and poetry 94 Roz Carroll and began to reveal his awareness, and his vulnerability. Brooding was a way of managing difficult feelings, holding onto the baby part of himself, not giving up something important. Significantly, around this time, he had a dream of a tiny fragile baby. Then we were able to explore on a body-sensory level his way of holding inside both what was precious, and what was dangerous rage ; and the fear of being humiliated.

This in turn may feed the urge to self-invention and omnipotence Schwartz-Salant The perspective of attachment theory and neuroscience Regulatory theory and attachment: When I asked Schore what was the organising principle of his work, he replied: Regulation is the cardinal principle, which is now being used in all of the sciences, from neurochemistry and developmental biology through psychology and sociology. Many interrelated physiological phenomena are involved in a psychobiologically attuned interaction between a mother and infant: As well as learning to soothe her infant, the mother is involved in Face to face interactions.

To regulate the high positive arousal, mothers and infants. This builds the intersubjective sense of self derived from mapping motor-sensory elements of the body-engaged-with-another Trevarthen and Aitken Infants and children may also be used by the parents for their own regulation via projections into the child.

When the infant is left alone, or responses are persistently inconsistent and unattuned, self-regulation gets tilted towards auto-regulation Schore This involves substitute contacts, such as thumb sucking, which may develop into elaborate and compulsive modes of caretaking and control in relation to the self or the other Winnicott In her chapter, Asheri gives an example of working with a client who longs for touch to meet an inner need: This calls for the therapist to engage in a delicate negotiation which is attuned to the multi-level communication of the client.

When self-regulation is unsupported, the infant, child or adult may be exposed to intolerable feelings of loss, shame, fear, rage and impotence.

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Self-regulation — an evolving concept 97 Differentiating self-regulation and interactive regulation in psychotherapy Relating. Beebe and Lachmann In neo-Reichian theories self-regulation is seen as an intra-psychic, intra-organismic event in response to the environment characterising the early holistic model of Chiron therapy.

In contemporary attachment theory the emphasis is on mother and baby as a mutually regulating system. Two parallel strands of intersubjective theorising, one clearly linked to infant observation, the other to psychoanalysis, focused on the reciprocal, co-constructing nature of the client—therapist relationship. Even though these are intricately interrelated processes, they provided a model that held the tension between self-regulating and the importance of the intersubjective. Coming from an infant development perspective, they describe how: Self-regulation refers to the management of arousal.

Interestingly, however, what is missing from this conceptualisation is a more genuinely holistic formulation which is precisely what is emphasised in the body psychotherapy model. Indeed, through all the stages of development at Chiron, selfregulation has always been conceptualised as a bodymind process across all levels Soth This complex and continuous communication, paralleled in mother—infant and therapist—client relationships, has come to be recognised as a result of microanalyses of interactions between human beings in many contexts.

The rapid, non-conscious, implicit and coordinated exchanges between pairs reveal how much relating is based on anticipation of the other, adjusting, and responding. Operating continually at either end of the spectrum — very high or low coordination — correlates with defensiveness. However, if I misattuned or deliberately differentiated my position, verbally and non-verbally failing to match him, then our interactions could become quite staccato, with abrupt shifts of movement and eye contact.

Beebe and Lachmann comment that: No-go areas get demarcated through powerful covert signals. The therapist strives to maintain awareness of the tension between many levels of communication. The web of affect: Information is too rapid and too various to be processed consciously in all its detail, but it does appear to synthesise into a felt sense through the process of resonating with the other. Or I may have an impulse to challenge a defensive manoeuvre that keeps the client out of contact with himself and with me. Gauging the right degree of contact minimises defensiveness.

Relating is based on energetic perception, which includes a capacity to detect intentional states in the other and oneself. As a Chiron-trained psychotherapist my moment-by-moment attention is as engaged in monitoring shifts in intensity and state between myself and the client as it is in making sense of it. Whilst I may well enquire, comment or speculate on the motivation behind or meaning of what is being presented, I am fascinated by the regulatory process itself.

Occasionally it is quite productive to ask a client not to talk but to be aware of the pressure to talk and what lies behind it.

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A need to impress, flatter, control, and pre-empt my possible response stifled any chance of spontaneous exchange between us. So I asked him to notice Self-regulation — an evolving concept what was happening in his body, or what he saw on my face while he was speaking. Then I suggested he tried pausing between statements. Aaron found this extremely difficult and I had to be persistent in this approach over quite a number of sessions. This facilitated a huge shift in our work together because it brought his feeling into the foreground, especially the burning question: Regulating intensity of affect and staying in contact The more realms of experience patients can bring into our relationship, the more resilient, cohesive and integrated their self-regulatory capacities.

For many clients, a key turning point in therapy will be when they express or show feelings that they have generally kept buried; and a further turning point comes when they can explore them in the here-and-now as they are evoked by and in the therapeutic relationship. However, both the extremes and limits on expression or sharing of feeling which the client experienced in their early attachments will be re-lived in the transference. Arguments, for example, are often critical events in Roz Carroll therapy. They may be used to protect the self against feeling loss, shame and failure.

I notice, for example, how my breathing functions as an anchor. Self-regulation — an evolving concept Countertransference: The principles that apply in individual self-regulation also apply to the therapeutic pair as a couple. As therapist and client get to know each other, and the defences against interactive regulation begin to melt, new patterns emerge like new dance steps, new experiments in being-with-another.

A comment or look may lead to a subtle shift, or a new cycle Carroll b. Sometimes, though, these transformative shifts occur in more radical or dramatic ways. Nested regulatory systems and ever shifting levels Self-regulation is not a singular process, but occurs in a kaleidoscopic way because it is a function of a complex system with many layers the bodymind interrelating with a complex human environment.

See Hycner and Jacobs , Jacobs and Parlett How Does Psychotherapy Work? Principles, Techniques and Practical Applications. Emotion, Reason, and the Human Brain. Developmental Psychology 35 1: Body, Movement and Dance in Psychotherapy 2 1: Self-regulation — an evolving concept Hilman, J.

A Dialogic Selfpsychology Approach. Princeton University Press, The British Gestalt Journal 1: Originally published in Telephone interview by Roz Carroll in March Excerpts published in The Psychotherapist Autumn Open University Press, pp. Body and Mind in Psychoanalysis. Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry 42 1: Chapter 6 To touch or not to touch: I will continue by illustrating my updated understanding of the place of touch in the therapeutic encounter, with two clinical examples: I will pay particular attention to my countertransferential process while negotiating the dilemma: Intersubjectivity and touch In the spirit of the Chiron tradition I would like to start the theoretical exploration by referring to a lived experience, which illustrates an underpinning issue we have to consider each time we wonder if touch is appropriate as a therapeutic intervention.

I used to be married to an artist. The Chiron Approach offers a timely and valuable contribution to the literature. It will provide essential reading for those practicing or involved with body psychotherapy, offering a new synthesis with the psychoanalytic tradition, as well as appealing to a wider audience of mental health professionals and academics with an interest in the area. It will also be useful to anyone interested in body psychotherapy and will be interesting to anyone involved in psychotherapy training and development.

It is a fine celebration of the work of Chiron over twenty years and brings together disparate voices into a coherent and meaningful whole. Linda Hartley deserves credit for achieving this through her succinct and evocative summaries of each section This book invites the reader into energetic engagement with the theory and practice of body psychotherapy, and it is impossible not to be touched by each of the authors in some way. She runs a transpersonal and body psychotherapy practice in Cambridge and Norfolk, and is the author of three books. Enter your mobile number or email address below and we'll send you a link to download the free Kindle App.

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