Body psychotherapy: A theoretical foundation for clinical practice. Geuter, U. Routledge, 2024. Publication Title: Body psychotherapy: A theoretical foundation for clinical practice
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Body psychotherapy is one of the major approaches of psychotherapy. This book is dedicated to that task. It offers a theoretical foundation for body psychotherapy above and beyond the schools, but in which their insights and experiential knowledge are still preserved. It positions body psychotherapy in the field of scientific research and provides it with a basis within this research. Furthermore, the book demonstrates that basically no psychotherapeutic approach can ignore the body and bodily interaction, since all experience and all behaviour is mediated consciously or unconsciously through the body. This book introduces body psychotherapy as one of the essential approaches in psychotherapy, reflecting the increasing integration of the body into clinical mental health practice. It offers an entirely new view on body psychotherapy based upon advanced research on embodiment, memory, emotion regulation, developmental psychology and body communication and an experiential and relational understanding of psychotherapy. Accordingly, the author grounds the theory of body psychotherapy on the theoretical approach of enactivism, which regards experience as arising from meaningful living interaction with others and their environment. The book discusses the disciplines that are most relevant for body psychotherapy. The book, fortified with clinical examples, shows the distinctiveness of body psychotherapy as compared with a traditional talking therapy approach. It also convincingly demonstrates that each form of psychotherapy should consider body experiences. The book is intended to provide those psychotherapists and members of other professions interested in the field of therapeutic work with the body a theoretical understanding of body psychotherapy. It also aims at showing those with a general interest in psychotherapy that every psychotherapeutic approach can profit from an awareness of the body and of body experience. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2024 APA, all rights reserved) (Source: book)
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	title = {Body psychotherapy: {A} theoretical foundation for clinical practice},
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	shorttitle = {Body psychotherapy},
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	abstract = {Body psychotherapy is one of the major approaches of psychotherapy. This book is dedicated to that task. It offers a theoretical foundation for body psychotherapy above and beyond the schools, but in which their insights and experiential knowledge are still preserved. It positions body psychotherapy in the field of scientific research and provides it with a basis within this research. Furthermore, the book demonstrates that basically no psychotherapeutic approach can ignore the body and bodily interaction, since all experience and all behaviour is mediated consciously or unconsciously through the body. This book introduces body psychotherapy as one of the essential approaches in psychotherapy, reflecting the increasing integration of the body into clinical mental health practice. It offers an entirely new view on body psychotherapy based upon advanced research on embodiment, memory, emotion regulation, developmental psychology and body communication and an experiential and relational understanding of psychotherapy. Accordingly, the author grounds the theory of body psychotherapy on the theoretical approach of enactivism, which regards experience as arising from meaningful living interaction with others and their environment. The book discusses the disciplines that are most relevant for body psychotherapy. The book, fortified with clinical examples, shows the distinctiveness of body psychotherapy as compared with a traditional talking therapy approach. It also convincingly demonstrates that each form of psychotherapy should consider body experiences. The book is intended to provide those psychotherapists and members of other professions interested in the field of therapeutic work with the body a theoretical understanding of body psychotherapy. It also aims at showing those with a general interest in psychotherapy that every psychotherapeutic approach can profit from an awareness of the body and of body experience. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2024 APA, all rights reserved) (Source: book)},
	language = {English},
	urldate = {2025-01-29},
	publisher = {Routledge},
	author = {Geuter, Ulfried},
	year = {2024},
	doi = {10.4324/9781003176893},
	note = {Publication Title: Body psychotherapy: A theoretical foundation for clinical practice},
	keywords = {Clinical Practice, Developmental Psychology, Emotional Regulation, Experiential Psychotherapy, Memory, Mental Health, Mind Body Therapy},
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