How does the body communicate in psychotherapy?
Join us online to celebrate the publication of ‘Primitive Bodily Communications in Psychotherapy’. Chaired by Ruth Williams, you will hear from the book’s editor, Raffaella Hilty, and from contributors who offer diverse psychoanalytic approaches in this significant and valuable edited collection.
About the book:
“These essays show us the tensions, challenges and opportunities that occur when our clients use their bodies as a primary means of communicating their distress …” Graeme Galton, Consultant Psychotherapist, Clinic for Dissociative Studies
Psychotherapists will be familiar with what it means to experience the hatred and despair of their most vulnerable patients in the midst of a psychotherapy session. Most often these patients will manage to express their feelings verbally, but what about those who never developed the capacity to speak? Or those who carry a complex range of unprocessed embodied feelings that cannot be verbally expressed? The contributors to this book present a wide spectrum of clinical cases to illustrate how such patients can reach a state of better physical and emotional containment and, when possible, of verbal communication. These bodily communications are referred to as primitive not because they are seen as inferior to verbal language, but because they point to the beginnings of psychological development, to primary ways of being and relating, as well as to enduring aspects of ourselves.
Book discount:
Attendees of the book launch can redeem a 20% discount on the book using the code: PBCP20
Click here to order the book, offer valid until end of June.