The Flesh of the Soul: The Body we Work with

This book shows what issues and themes dominate body psychotherapy at the beginning of the new millennium. The focus of the Travemünde Congress, and of this volume, is on how the bodily dimension can be linked with theories that are used in psychotherapy. The selection of authors ensures that this volume allows the reader to have an overview of major trends in this field.

Autorentext

The Editor: Michael Heller was born in 1949, in Paris. He studied experimental psychology in Geneva, where he also trained in Biodynamic psychology. He opened his psychotherapeutical practice in 1976, and he received his Ph.D. in 1982 from the University of Duisburg. He has directed the Laboratory on Affect and Communication in the Geneva department of Psychiatry for 11 years, and is member of the Board of the European Association of Body Psychotherapy.

Inhalt

Contents: Michael Heller: Presentation: the Organism as Physiology, Body, Flesh and Soul - Gerda Boyesen: Body Psychotherapy is a Psychotherapy - Malcolm Brown: The How is Blood-Synergic Direct Touch - Will Davis: Energetics and Therapeutic Touch - Fritz-Albert Popp: Biophysical Aspects of the Psychic Situation - Maarten Aalberse: Graceful Means: Felt Gestures and Choreographic Therapy - Gustl Marlock/Halko Weiss: In Search of the Embodied Self - Bjorn Blumenthal: The Psychotherapist's Body - Luciano Rispoli: Functional Psychology and the Basic Experience of the Self - Jerome Liss: Maps of Experience - Albert Pesso: The Elusive «I» - Christine Caldwell: Addiction as Somatic Dissociation - Michael Heller/Véronique Haynal-Reymond/André Haynal/Marc Archinard: Can Faces Reveal Suicide Attempt Risks? - Siegfried Frey: New Directions in Communications Research: The Impact of the Human Body on the Cognitive and Affective System of the Perceiver - George Downing: Bodies and Motion.