Body Psychotherapy: An Introduction

'...a well-rooted resource for bodywork courses and a useful introductory text for a broad audience' - Caduceus. 'It's not a big book but it's got a vast amount of information and knowledge in it...if you are interested in getting a good overall picture of the subject you couldn't do better' - "The Fulcrum".Body psychotherapy is an holistic therapy which approaches human beings as united bodymind, and offers embodied relationship as its central therapeutic stance. Well-known forms include Reichian Therapy, Bioenergetics, Dance Movement Therapy, Primal Integration and Process Oriented Psychology. This new title examines the growing field of body psychotherapy: surveys the many forms of body psychotherapy; describes what may happen in body psychotherapy and offers a theoretical account of how this is valuable drawing in current neuroscientific evidence; and, defines the central concepts of the field, and the unique skills needed by practitioners. Accessible and practical, yet grounded throughout in current research "Body Psychotherapy: An Introduction" is of interest to practitioners and students of all forms of psychotherapy and counselling, and anyone who wants to understand how mind and body together form a human being.