The Body in Psychotherapy: Inquiries in Somatic Psychology

by Don Hanlon Johnson (Editor), Ian Grand

The Body in Psychotherapy explores the life of the body as a basis of psychological understanding. Its chapters describe the use of movement, awareness exercises, and bodily imagination in work with various populations and life situations. It chronicles somatic work with childhood trauma, political torture, and life transitions such as aging, the loss of parents, and the emergence of a sense of self.

The Body in Psychotherapy is the third in a groundbreaking series that provides a theoretical and practical context for the emerging field of Somatics. The first and second book of the series are Bone , Breath, and Gesture and Groundworks .

Genres: Psychology

208 pages, Paperback

First published May 1, 1998

Reviews

[Jo]

It's hard for me to judge, since this is a new area of study for me. It's a surface overview of somatics & the body in psychotherapy from a wide range of practitioners. Not really educating on specifics of somatics but a general idea.

[Erin]

Reading this one now. I would defintely recommend it to anyone who wants to understand how the body and mond are truly connected