Primitive Bodily Communications in Psychotherapy: Embodied Expressions of a Disembodied Psyche - Couverture souple

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ISBN 10 : 1913494306 ISBN 13 : 9781913494308

Editeur : Karnac Books, 2022

Synopsis

Every psychotherapist will be familiar with what it means to experience the hatred and despair of their most vulnerable patients in the midst of a psychotherapy session. Most often these patients will manage to express their feelings verbally, but what about those who never developed the capacity to speak? Or those who are capable of talking, but carry a complex range of unprocessed embodied feelings that cannot be verbally expressed? Some patients must rely on another type of language in order to communicate their dissociative states of mind. Primitive Bodily Communications explores how the ‘talking cure’ can still work when words fail and the body ‘talks.’ Non-verbal communication can be thought of as a form of body language and, even though this is a topic not frequently discussed, many practitioners have experienced working with people who communicate through the use of their bodies. The book does not refer to bodily communications as primitive because we see them as inferior to verbal language, but simply because they point to the beginnings of psychological development, to primary ways of being and relating, as well as to enduring aspects of ourselves. The contributors explore the topic of primitive bodily communications in the context of intellectual disability, eating disorders and bodily neglect, focusing on the communicative aspect of bodily expressions within the therapeutic relationship. A wide spectrum of clinical cases illustrates how these patients can reach a state of better physical and emotional containment and, when possible, of verbal communication.

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À propos de l'auteur

Raffaella Hilty is a UKCP Psychoanalytic Psychotherapist. Having worked as an Honorary Psychotherapist within the NHS at Guy's Hospital - part of South London and Maudsley Trust - for a number of years, Raffaella now works in private practice in North London. She is currently Deputy Course Tutor on the new Diploma in Psychopathology at Confer.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Karnac Books
• Date d'édition: 2022
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1913494306
• ISBN 13: 9781913494308
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 264
• Éditeur: Hilty Raffaella
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible