Being with the Body in Depth Psychology
Barbara Holifield, "Being with the Body in Depth Psychology"
English | ISBN: 1032286083 | 2024 | 236 pages | EPUB, PDF | 5 MB + 11 MB
English | ISBN: 1032286083 | 2024 | 236 pages | EPUB, PDF | 5 MB + 11 MB
Featuring a foreword by Donald Kalsched, this important book examines the integration of the subjectively experienced body in the practice of depth psychology.
Barbara Holifield draws from philosophical perspectives, neuroscientific and infant research, developmental theory, and trauma studies to offer a comprehensive overview of embodiment within a relationally based psychoanalytic approach. Clinical vignettes demonstrate the critical value of working with the bodily-felt dimension of implicit relational memory and emphasize how bodily-felt sense facilitates access to feelings. The mythopoetic reality revealed in depth psychotherapeutic process weaves all of this into a tapestry of personal meaning. Here the body serves as a portal to the numinous––healing that goes far beyond the relief of symptoms to a renewed sense of aliveness.
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