Barbara Holifield – Book Lunch. Being with the Body in Depth Psychology
February 6, 2025 at 06:15PM
Book Launch with Barbara Holifield
Title:
Book Launch: Being with the Body in Depth Psychology –
Development, Trauma and Transformation in the Unspoken Realm
Abstract:
In “Being with the Body in Depth Psychology”, Jungian analyst Barbara Holifield examines the integration of the lived, subjectively experienced body into depth psychology. Drawing on philosophy, neuroscience, developmental theory, and trauma studies, she offers a multidimensional understanding of embodiment within a relational Jungian framework. Through clinical vignettes, Holifield highlights how engaging with the bodily-felt dimension of implicit relational memory, facilitates access to deep emotions. The mythopoetic reality revealed in depth psychotherapeutic process weaves these experiences into a tapestry of personal meaning, with the body serving as a portal to the numinous and a renewed sense of soulful aliveness.
Bio:
Barbara Holifield is a training analyst at the C. G. Jung Institute of San Francisco. She integrates the bodily-felt dimension of experience into Jungian Analysis. Having taught Somatic Psychology for two decades at the California Institute of Integral Studies, being certified in Somatic Experiencing, as well as an international teacher of Authentic Movement, a deep feeling for the body pulses through her work. She has authored several articles on embodiment, trauma, and our participation in the dream of the earth.
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