Body Psychotherapy: History, Concepts, and Methods - Hardcover

Michel Heller

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0393706699 ISBN 13: 9780393706697

Publisher: W. W. Norton & Co., 2012

Synopsis

Body psychotherapy, which examines the relationship of bodily and physical experiences to emotional and psychological experiences, seems at first glance to be a relatively new area and on the cutting edge of psychotherapeutic theory and practice. It is, but the major concepts of body/mind treatment are actually drawn from a wide range of historical material, material that spans centuries and continents.Here, in a massively comprehensive book, Michael Heller summarizes all the major concepts, thinkers, and movements whose work has led to the creation of the field we now know as body/mind psychotherapy.The book covers everything from Eastern and Western thought beginning with yoga and Taosim and moving to Plato and Descartes. It also discusses major developments in biology how organisms are defined and neuroscience. This is truly a comprehensive reference for anyone interested in the origins of the idea that the mind and body are not separate and that both must be understood together in order to understand people and their behaviour.

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About the Author

Michael C. Heller is a USA and Swiss citizen, born in Paris. He is a psychologist who has studied, as a researcher and a clinician, the relation between mind and body. As a researcher, he has primarily studied the nonverbal behavior of suicidal and depressive patients in the Geneva University Psychiatric Institutions. As a clinician, he trained in body psychotherapy in Gerda Boyesen’s school, and has participated in the development of body psychotherapy with his colleagues of the European Association of Body Psychotherapy (EABP). He has participated in the creation of several journals in the field of body psychotherapy, and has occupied key posts in the EABP (Vice-president, chair of the Ethics Committee and Scientific Committee). He publishes and teaches regularly on clinical and research issues related to body and mind. He is now psychotherapist and supervisor in Lausanne, Switzerland, while continuing to teach and publish at an international level.

Edition details

• Publisher: W. W. Norton & Co.
• Publication date: 2012
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0393706699
• ISBN 13: 9780393706697
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 672