Body Psychotherapy: An Introduction / Edition 1

by Nick Totton

Overview

This new title examines the growing field of body psychotherapy by surveying the many forms of body psychotherapy, describing what may happen in body psychotherapy and offers a theoretical account of how this is valuable drawing in current neuroscientific evidence and defining the central concepts of the field, and the unique skills needed by practitioners.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780335210381
Publisher:	McGraw-Hill Professional Publishing
Publication date:	05/01/2003
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	200
Product dimensions:	5.90(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.55(d)

About the Author

Nick Totton originally trained in Reichian therapy in the early 1980's and since then has worked as a psychotherapist and trainer based in Leeds, gaining further experience in several forms of work, notably Process Orientated Psychology, and taking an M.A. in Psychoanalytic Studies at Leeds Metropolitan University where he now teaches. He is the author of four books, including Personality and Character Types (with Michael Jacobs) and The Water in the Glass: Body and Mind in Psychoanalysis.

Table of Contents

Introduction
What happens in body psychotherapy?
Foundations of body psychotherapy
Models, concepts and skills
Varieties of body psychotherapy
Clinical and ethical issues
The future of body psychotherapy
Resources
Bibliography
Index.