In this book, the author argues and demonstrates that embodiment and relationship are inseparable, both in human existence and in the practice of psychotherapy. It is helpful for psychotherapist, psychoanalyst, counsellor, or other psychopractitioner.
Nick Totton is a therapist and trainer with nearly thirty years experience. Originally a Reichian body therapist, his approach has become broad based and open to the spontaneous and unexpected. Nick has an MA in Psychoanalytic Studies, and has worked with Process-Oriented Psychology and trained as a craniosacral therapist. He has authored or edited seventeen books, mostly on psychotherapy-related topics, including 'Body Psychotherapy: An Introduction'; 'Psychotherapy and Politics'; 'Press When Illuminated: New and Selected Poems'; and 'Wild Therapy'.
Title: Embodied Relating: The Ground of Psychotherapy
Author: Totton, Nick
ISBN: 9781782202936
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Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
Publication Date: 2018-05-21
Number of Pages: 272
Weight: 0.3584 kg
'Nick Totton's capacity to move fluidly and daringly between theoretical paradigms and therapeutic modalities, the psychological and the social/political, the spoken and the implicit, is a beautiful illustration of the art and practice of Embodied Relating. This is a seminal book relevant not only to body psychotherapists but also to psychotherapists from all modalities who are interested in an updated, inclusive yet differentiated dialogue with other contemporary thinking and research within and beyond the field of psychotherapy. A generous and thought-provoking offering.'-- Shoshi Asheri, Psychotherapist, Supervisor and a Teacher of Embodied Intersubjectivity'With this book the tradition of body psychotherapy is finally coming of age, in terms of its philosophical underpinnings and the formulation of a non-dualistic paradigm, in a way that is relevant for all psychotherapy. It represents the culmination of Totton's prolific writing over the decades as well as his therapeutic practice and teaching. If Freud was alive today, instead of the talking cure , I believe he would be championing the relating cure . This book deserves to be read by every therapy student and practitioner.'-- Michael Soth, Integral-relational Body Psychotherapist, Supervisor and Trainer
