Title Body of awareness : a somatic and developmental approach to psychotherapy / Ruella Frank

Published Cambridge, Mass. : GestaltPress ; Hillsdale, N.J. : Distributed by the Analytic Press, ©2001

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Description 1 online resource (232 pages) Contents Opening Dialogue -- Developmental Patterns and the Processes of Differentiation -- Primary Orienting: Gravity, Earth, and Space -- Reaching and Being Reached -- The Upright Stance -- Coming into Wholeness: Annie's Story Summary Merging scientific theory with a practical, clinical approach, Body of Awareness explores the formation of infant movement experience and its manifest influence upon the later adult. Most significantly, it shows how the organizing principles in early development are functionally equivalent to those of the adult. It demonstrates how movement plays a critical role in a developing self-awareness for the infant and in maintaining a healthy self throughout life. In addition, a variety of case studies illustrates how infant developmental movement patterns are part of the moment-to-moment processes of the adult client and how to bring these patterns to awareness within therapy. Body of Awareness is intended to help therapists, new or advanced, to enhance their skills of attunement. They can do this by heightening their observations of subtle movement patterns as they emerge within the client/therapist relationship, and by respective their own developing feelings within session as essential information to the therapy process. And as developmental patterns are central to psychological functioning, a background study of movement provides the therapist with critical insight into the unfolding psychodynamic field. -- ‡c From publisher's description Notes Title from PDF title page (viewed on May 15, 2013) Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 217-227) and index Subject Gestalt therapy -- Case studies Movement therapy -- Case studies Movement, Psychology of. Somesthesia. Child development. Psychophysiology. Psychotherapy -- methods Child Development Gestalt Therapy -- methods Movement Psychophysiology PSYCHOLOGY -- Psychotherapy -- General. Psychophysiology Child development Gestalt therapy Movement, Psychology of Movement therapy Somesthesia Genre/Form Case studies Form Electronic book ISBN 9781135061371 1135061378 9780203766989 0203766989 9781135061357 1135061351 9781135061364 113506136X 9781138130890 1138130893

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