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Contemporary Body Psychotherapy

The Chiron Approach

• Edited by Linda Hartley

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• Price: $34.95 $31.46
• Binding: Paperback (also available in Hardback)
• Pages: 272
• Published by: Routledge
• Publication Date: 13th August 2008
• ISBN: 978-0-415-43939-8

About the Book

Contemporary Body Psychotherapy: The Chiron Approach looks at the ground-breaking work of the London based Chiron Centre for Body Psychotherapy, a training centre recognised worldwide by professionals in the field. The book brings together Chiron trainers and therapists, describing how their integrative approach has enabled cutting-edge thinking.

Divided into two parts, the book deals with topics including:

• the roots and the development of the Chiron approach
• self-regulation – an evolving concept at the heart of body psychotherapy
• the evolution of an embodied, integral and relational approach to psychotherapy
• moving towards an integrative model of trauma therapy

At a time when the psychotherapeutic profession has turned its interest towards the body and its intrinsic psychological dimension, Contemporary Body Psychotherapy: The Chiron Approach offers a timely and valuable contribution to the literature. It will provide essential reading for those practicing or involved with body psychotherapy, offering a new synthesis with the psychoanalytic tradition, as well as appealing to a wider audience of mental health professionals and academics with an interest in the area.

Reviews

'Essential reading for anyone seriously interested in body psychotherapy.' - Nick Totton, body psychotherapy trainer and author.

Table of Contents

Hartley, Introduction. Part I: The Development of Core Principles and Theory. Ground and Roots. Eiden, The Roots and the Development of the Chiron Approach. Schaible, Biodynamic Massage as a Body Therapy and as Tool in Body Psychotherapy. Reynolds, Gestalt Body Psychotherapy. The Crucible. Soth, From Humanistic Holism via the ‘Integrative Project’ Towards Integral-Relational Body Psychotherapy. Carroll, Self-regulation – An Evolving Concept at the Heart of Body Psychotherapy. Asheri, To Touch or Not to Touch: A Relational Body Psychotherapy Perspective. Ablack, The Body-Mind Dynamics of Working with Diversity. Part II: New Directions and Applications. An Intimate Perspective. Stauffer, The Use of Neuroscience in Body Psychotherapy: Theoretical and Clinically Relevant Aspects. Landale, Working with Psychosomatic Distress and Developmental Trauma: A Clinical Illustration. Keary, Do We? Can We Look At The Disabled Body? Heitzler, Towards an Integrative Model of Trauma Therapy. Warnecke, The Borderline Relationship. Clark, Facing the Abuser in the Abused in Body Psychotherapy. Changing Socio-Political Contexts. Waterston, Body Psychotherapy, Social Theory, Marxism and Civil War. Hartley, Concluding Words.

About the Author(s)

Linda Hartley is a UKCP registered Psychotherapist, an ADMP-UK senior registered Dance Movement Psychotherapist, and an ISMETA registered Somatic Movement Therapist. She runs a transpersonal and body psychotherapy practice in Cambridge and Norfolk, and is the author of three books.

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