Physical Touch In Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy

Author : Edward T Novak
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1000626237
Total Pages : 217 pages
Book Rating : 4.30/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Physical Touch in Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy written by Edward T Novak and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2022-08-04 with total page 217 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This groundbreaking book presents a new model for incorporating the human body, and specifically physical touch, into psychoanalysis and psychotherapy, particularly for patients who have experienced trauma. Novak’s model of informed and disciplined touch articulates five categories of touch and three phases of therapeutic body work, all of which can help move the patient and therapist directly into bodily experiences that enable trauma memories to be processed, and then analyzed and transformed. This transformation leads to patients experiencing their bodies in fundamentally new ways, both relationally and intrapsychically. The book also grapples with the risks and ethics of working directly with patients’ bodies, outlining theoretical and clinical elements that help create a safe and sacred therapeutic structure. Novak’s model offers a continuum of touch from everyday physical interactions, such as handshakes or hugs, to more complex and complete ways of working with the body that are safe and meaningful and that create an integrated experience of the patient’s mind and body. Physical Touch in Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy is of interest to therapists at all levels of experience in the fields of counseling, social work, psychotherapy, and psychoanalysis. Practitioners in other helping professions such as healthcare, massage therapy, and physical therapy, as well as providers of wholistic medicine, will also be able to make use of the comprehensive clinical model and case studies detailed in the book.

Author : Alison Ball
Publisher : Psychoz Publications
ISBN 13 : 9781932462135
Total Pages : 108 pages
Book Rating : 4.39/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Taboo Or Not Taboo written by Alison Ball and published by Psychoz Publications. This book was released on 2003-01-01 with total page 108 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Edward W. L. Smith
Publisher : Guilford Press
ISBN 13 : 9781572306622
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.29/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Touch in Psychotherapy written by Edward W. L. Smith and published by Guilford Press. This book was released on 2001-02-01 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Should a therapist ever shake hands with a client, or touch a client's hand or shoulder? There are taboos against erotic touch in psychotherapy, for excellent reasons, but what about nonerotic touch? These latter forms of physical contact are not explicitly taboo and they can be powerful forms of communication. Research and clinical experience indicate that they can contribute to positive therapeutic change when used appropriately. What, then, is appropriate use?

Author : Alison Ball
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780958579643
Total Pages : 108 pages
Book Rating : 4.44/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Taboo Or Not Taboo? written by Alison Ball and published by . This book was released on 2002-01-01 with total page 108 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Considers the problematic topic of under what circumstances psychotherapists, counsellors, psychoanalysts and other helping professionals may legitimately use touch to help their clients.

Author : Graeme Galton
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 0429908865
Total Pages : 220 pages
Book Rating : 4.66/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Touch Papers written by Graeme Galton and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-05-08 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For the first time, the controversial issue of physical contact in the consulting room is explored by distinguished psychoanalysts and psychotherapists representing a diverse range of psychoanalytic viewpoints. The contributors focus on the unconscious meanings of touch, or absence of touch, or unwelcome touch, or accidental touch in the psychoanalytic clinical situation. There are plenty of clinical vignettes and the discussions are grounded in clinical experience. Out of all medical and therapeutic treatments, psychoanalysis remains one of the very few that uses no physical contact. Sigmund Freud stopped using the 'pressure technique' in the late 1890s, a technique whereby he would press lightly on his patient's head while insisting that they remembered forgotten events. He gave up this procedure in favour of encouraging free association, then listening and interpreting without touching his patient in any way. Psychoanalysis was born and the use of touch, as a technique reminiscent of hypnosis, was explicitly prohibited. The avoidance of physical contact between the analyst and patient was established as a key component of the classical rule of abstinence.

Author : Alison Ball
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780958579629
Total Pages : 61 pages
Book Rating : 4.28/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Taboo Or Not Taboo? written by Alison Ball and published by . This book was released on 2000-01-01 with total page 61 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Mic Hunter
Publisher : SAGE Publications
ISBN 13 : 1452249962
Total Pages : 322 pages
Book Rating : 4.64/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Ethical Use of Touch in Psychotherapy written by Mic Hunter and published by SAGE Publications. This book was released on 1997-10-08 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Is the bias against touch in psychotherapy justified? Is ethical touch an oxymoron? Can the recovery process be complete without healing touch? Mental health professionals are entrusted with the awesome responsibility of providing appropriate treatment for clients in a safe environment that nurtures trust, a necessary ingredient for optimum movement through the therapeutic process. Though treatment approaches vary, most modalities are verbally based and, in theory, exclude physical contact. Fearing that any form of touch would likely lead to sexual feelings or interaction, clinicians tend to shy away from the topic. In this book, however, Mic Hunter and Jim Struve skilfully demonstrate that touch - a most basic human need - is intrinsic to

Author : Nancy McWilliams
Publisher : Guilford Press
ISBN 13 : 9781593850098
Total Pages : 396 pages
Book Rating : 4.93/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy written by Nancy McWilliams and published by Guilford Press. This book was released on 2004-03-18 with total page 396 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Building on the enormous popularity of her two previous texts on diagnosis and case formulation, this important work from Nancy McWilliams completes the trilogy by addressing in detail the art and science of psychodynamic treatment. McWilliams distills the essential principles of clinical practice, including effective listening and talking; transference and countertransference; emotional safety; and an empathic, attuned attitude toward the patient. The author describes the values, assumptions, and clinical and research findings that guide the psychoanalytic enterprise, and shows how to integrate elements of other theoretical perspectives when necessary. She also discusses the phases of treatment and covers such neglected topics as educating the client about the therapeutic process, handling complex challenges to boundaries, and attending to self-care. Presenting complex clinical information in personal, nontechnical language enriched by in-depth clinical vignettes, this is an essential psychoanalytic work and training text for therapists.

Author : Steven J. Ellman
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 0429923937
Total Pages : 736 pages
Book Rating : 4.37/5 ( download)

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Download or read book When Theories Touch written by Steven J. Ellman and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-02-10 with total page 736 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book aims to deconstruct the different theoretical perspectives of psychoanalysis, and reconstruct these concepts in a language that is readily understood. Wherever possible this is meant not to do away with terms that are meaningful, but to attempt to clarify terms and concepts. The book comes in three sections. The first examines Freud's different theories and describes how Freud shifted his emphasis over time. The second section covers all the major post-Freudian theorists: Hartmann and Anna Freud (together in one chapter), Melanie Klein, Fairbairn, Winnicott, Sullivan, Mahler, Kohut, Kernberg, and Bion; and a chapter on the movement from classical theory to contemporary conflict theory. The last section deals with issues raised in contemporary psychoanalysis - issues as they pertain to the clinical situation, and the rationale for a theory of endogenous stimulation.

Author : Frances Sommer Anderson
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1136823069
Total Pages : 302 pages
Book Rating : 4.60/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Bodies In Treatment written by Frances Sommer Anderson and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-03-01 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bodies in Treatment is a challenging volume that brings into conceptual focus an "unspoken dimension" of clinical work - the body and nonverbal communication - that has long occupied the shadowy realm of tacit knowledge. By bringing visceral, sensory, and imagistic modes of emotional processing to the forefront, Editor Frances Sommer Anderson and the contributors to this original collection expand the domain of psychodynamic engagement. Working at the leading edge of psychoanalytic theory and practice, and in the forefront of the integrative psychotherapy movement, Anderson has created a collaborative project that stimulates interdisciplinary dialogue on the developmental neurobiology of attachment, the micro-processing of interchanges between the infant and caregiver, the neuroscience of emotional processing and trauma, body-focused talking treatments for trauma, and research in cognitive science. Enlightened by experiencing body-based treatments for thirty years, Anderson reflects on the powerful impact of these interventions, recounting attempts to integrate her somatically-informed discoveries into the "talking" frame. Reaching further, her contributors present richly informative accounts of how experiences in body-based modalities can be creatively integrated into a psychoanalytic framework of treatment. Readers are introduced to specialized modalities, such as craniosacral therapy and polarity therapy, as well as to the adjunctive use of yoga, the effectiveness of which can be grounded neurophysiologically. Somatic interventions are discussed in terms of the extent to which they can promote depth-psychological change outside the psychoanalytic consulting room as well as how they can enrich the relational process in psychodynamic treatment. The final sections of Bodies in Treatment explore the range of ways in which patients’ and therapists’ bodies engage, sustain, and contain the dynamics of treatment.