Touch: Attachment and the Body

by Kate White

Overview

This book compiles the papers presented at John Bowlby Memorial Conference 2003, exploring the complex and interwoven themes of touch, attachment and the body and their emergence in clinical work. It offers a new theory of the body, and of the role of the body in psychoanalytical practice.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781855753617
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	03/10/2004
Series:	The Bowlby Centre Monograph Series
Pages:	102
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x (d)

About the Author

Kate White is a training therapist, supervisor, and teacher at the Centre for Attachment-based Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy (CAPP). Formerly Senior Lecturer at South Bank University in the Department of Nursing and Community Health Studies, she has used her extensive experience in adult education to contribute to the innovative psychotherapy curriculum developed at CAPP. In addition to working as an individual psychotherapist, Kate runs workshops on the themes of attachment and trauma in clinical practice. Informed by her experience of growing up in South Africa, she has long been interested in the impact of race and culture on theory and on clinical practice.

Hometown:

New York, New York

Date of Birth:

1950

Place of Birth:

Glens Falls, New York

Education:

Union College, 1972

Website:

http://www.KateWhite.com

Table of Contents

Foreword — Attachment theory and The John Bowlby Memorial Lecture: a short history — Introduction to the John Bowlby Memorial Conference 2003 — Intimate contact from birth — The John Bowlby Memorial Lecture 2003 The body in clinical practice — The John Bowlby Memorial Lecture 2003 The body in clinical practice — Touch and the impact of trauma in therapeutic relationships with adults — The neurobiology of attachment, touch and the body in early development — Bowlby Memorial Conference 2003 — Touch: attachment and the body — Touch: Attachment and the body A review of CAPP’s Tenth Bowlby Memorial Conference 2003 — Introduction to The Centre for Attachment-based Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy