The therapist who is familiar with bodily feelings has a privileged window onto the primal life of the psyche and soul. No amount of talk alone can match this vantage point. Long before the advent of psychiatry, the French philosopher Pascal noted that “the body has its reasons that reason can not reason.” The Austrian Wittgenstein, in this same tradition, wrote that “the body is the best picture of the mind.” And the Australian F. M. Alexander, around the turn of the nineteenth century, made an extensive study of peoples’ postures and concluded, “When psychologists speak of the unconscious,
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