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Reich documentary film now available online
If you missed the film's screenings in America, Europe and South Africa, which took place for 1½ years from January 2018 to July 2019, you can now watch the film on Vimeo-on-Demand.
https://vimeo.com/ondemand/wr1897
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Group body psychotherapy for the treatment of somatoform disorder
Frank Röhricht, Heribert Sattel, Christian Kuhn and Claas Lahmann
BMC Psychiatry 2019 19:120
https://doi.org/10.1186/s12888-019-2095-6
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The Routledge International Handbook of
Embodied Perspectives in Psychotherapy
Approaches from Dance Movement and Body Psychotherapies, 1st Edition
Edited by Helen Payne, Sabine Koch, Jennifer Tantia
Routledge
456 pages | 10 B/W Illus.
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Praxis Körperpsychotherapie by Ulfried Geuter
Praxis Körperpsychotherapie. 10 Prinzipien der Arbeit im therapeutischen Prozess (The Practice of Body Psychotherapy. 10 Principles of working in the therapeutic process) Berlin, Springer, 2019. 508 pages, € 44,99
"This the most extensive systematised book I have read on basic principles of body psychotherapy in general. I like the presentation into ten divisions. Ulfried Geuter has found his own way to transcend the differences between the modalities of body psychotherapy. His connections to parallels from other mainstreams is also thorough and impressive." - David Boadella.
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BODY PSYCHOTHERAPY CASE STUDIES
A new collection of 15 Body Psychotherapy Case Studies
Edited by COURTENAY YOUNG
Published by Body Psychotherapy
Publications in conjunction with the EABP Science & Research Committee.
This paperback book is sized 23cm x 15cm (Royal) and has about 210 pages:
IBSN: 978-1-908729-14-9
RRP: £18.00 €22.00 $30.00 (postage is extra)
It is also available as a PDF down-loadable version, but only from:
www.bodypsychotherapypublications.com
ISBN: 978-1-908729-15-6
PayPal: £15.00 €18.00 $24.00
Special - EABP 2018 Berlin Congress price: €15.00. For the first 100 copies sold – then @ €18.00 or €20.00 (if posted).
The concept for this book arose out of: (A) the EABP Science & Research Committee (SRC) publishing a set of ‘Guidelines for Writing a Body Psychotherapy Case Study’, which are available on the EABP website under the ‘Research’ tab. They were also printed in the Body Psychotherapy Publications (BPP) book of articles from presenters at the EABP 2014 Congress in Lisbon and are re-printed herein. This was then followed by: (B) the Science and Research Symposium at the EABP 2016 Congress in Athens, when there were several presentations about Body Psychotherapy case studies. After the success of these two SRC initiatives, it was decided to develop a third project, which was to produce a new book consisting of Body Psychotherapy Case Studies, with the EABP Science & Research Committee working in collaboration with Body Psychotherapy Publications.
This is the 5th in a series of books published under the imprimatur of ‘Body Psychotherapy Publications’:
(1) The Historical Basis of Body Psychotherapy (2010); (2) About the Science of Body Psychotherapy
(2012); (3) About Relational Body Psychotherapy (2012); (4) The Body in Relationship: Self – Other – Society (2014): the 6th book is About Touch in Body Psychotherapy (also available at the Congress).
In this book of Body Psychotherapy Case Studies, you will find a selection of 15 Body Psychotherapy case studies coming from: Stanley Keleman, Sladjana Djordjevic, Christina Bader Johannson, Courtenay Young, Herbert Grassman, Zoe Schillat, Bernhard Schlage, Galit Serebrenick-Hai, Russell Rose, Jacqueline Carleton, Laura Steckler & Ulrich Sollmann (with Wentian Li); as well as other informational material.
We hope that this book will be followed up, in the future, by several more publications and other similar initiatives; and – especially – people publishing further case studies, as a significant contribution to the
research, the study, as well as the development of our professional practice of Body Psychotherapy.
Courtenay Young has edited this volume with support from EABP and the EABP-SRC. He is also the current editor of the International Journal of Psychotherapy; was the main English editor for ‘The Handbook of Body Psychotherapy & Somatic Psychology’ (2015); and has written many published articles concerning Body Psychotherapy, psychotherapy and counselling, and spiritual emergencies. He was also the lead writer for the EAP Project to establish the Professional Core Competencies of a European Psychotherapist. He lives and works near Edinburgh, Scotland.
Website:www.courtenay-young.com
www.bodypsychotherapypublications.com
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Psychopathology and Character. Psychoanalysis in the Body and the Body
From the history of Reichian Analysis, through its most recent developments to its unrivalled perception of the central importance of the therapeutic setting.
This new book by Genovino Ferri and Giuseppe Cimini abundantly brings Wilhelm Reich’s psychoanalytical intuition to life, adding new, illuminating, translatable connections to that inextricable, living link between psychoanalysis and the body.
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EABP STUDENT FINAL PAPER AWARD 2018 SFPA WINNERS
We now have the winners of the Student Final Paper Prize!
This year we have received 7 articles that had been reviewed by the following assessors: Maurizio Stuppigia, Francesca Zoppi and Madlen Algafari.
The SFPA Winners are:
1st prize: Robert Brumărescu, PhD
2nd prize: Tiziana Longo
3rd prize: Alessia Mazzolini Polonia
CONGRATULATIONS to all participants.
''1st Prize:
Free attendance at the 16th EABP Congress incl. three nights board.
One-year free membership of the EABP*.
The winner will also be announced in the Plenary at the Congress.
2nd and 3rd Prizes:
One-year free membership*.
One-year subscription to the IBPJ
Prizewinners are encouraged to rework their paper into an article and submit it to the International Body Psychotherapy Journal (IBPJ). Entries must be according to the conditions of the Journal. They go through the peer review process and are accepted only on the basis of the editors’ final approval.
* Full Membership if documents are completed within two years, otherwise Candidate or Associate Membership.
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Kathrin Stauffer reflects on sex & power
This discussion takes place in the context of the current (late 2017 and early 2018) sexual harassment scandals going around many professions. Kathrin Stauffer starts her reflections on these developments by some thoughts about the nature of power and her own relationship with it.
Kathrin Stauffer PhD, Body and Integrative Psychotherapist (UKCP), was born and educated in Switzerland. Originally a research biochemist, she retrained at the Chiron Centre for Body Psychotherapy in London. She is the author of the book ‘Anatomy & Physiology for Psychotherapists: Connecting Body & Soul’ (W.W. Norton 2010). She works in private practice in Cambridge, England, as a body psychotherapist, EMDR therapist and supervisor. She is currently the Chair of the EABP Council of National Associations and a Board member of EABP. She has presented workshops on questions of self-confidence in the psychotherapy profession, and also on a panel of women’s issues at the 2016 EABP Congress in Athens, Greece.
Published February 2018.
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Gill Westland - A Study of Significant Moments of Change in BPT
Gill Westland is the Author of "Verbal and Non-Verbal Communication in Psychotherapy" (Norton, 2015)
http://books.wwnorton.com/books/Author.aspx?id=4294987188
And Co-editor BODY, MOVEMENT AND DANCE IN PSYCHOTHERAPY published by Taylor and Francis
http://www.tandfonline.com/toc/tbmd20/current#.VBlM9ldgEgc
The research article published based on MA body psychotherapy work at Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge. "A Study of Significant Moments of Change in Body Psychotherapy"
You can see the article here for free.
A Study of Significant Moments of Change in BPT
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Embodied Relating: The Ground of Psychotherapy by Nick Totton
Embodied Relating is addressed both to body psychotherapists and to verbal therapists, and argues that embodied relating is the soil from which all therapy grows, and that conscious understanding of this makes our work more powerful and accurate.
Embodied relating is embedded in our everyday life: we can all 'do' embodied relating, though some do it better than others. Like many other important aspects of life, it generally happens of its own accord, but sometimes benefits from the sort of close examination which tends to happen in therapy. However, psychotherapy has a history of keeping embodiment out of its field of awareness, and of preferring language-based relating to all other kinds - indeed, until quite recently, of downplaying here-and-now relationship altogether. All these things are now changing; and this book is intended to be part of the change.
Embodiment and relationship are inseparable, both in human existence and in psychotherapy. If we explore embodiment, we encounter relationship; if we explore relationship, we encounter embodiment. Therapy is more powerful when the practitioner is able to recognise the constant interplay between these two aspects of being human, and to follow and support the shifts of change from one to the other.
The book explores the nature of embodiment, and of embodied relating, drawing on many sources, including Merleau-Ponty, Foucault, Bourdieu, enaction theory, extended cognition, and neuroscience. It places this in the context of psychotherapy, and of the wider social and political field. It then explores other related issues like play, language, trauma, and complexity, and offers a model for those trained in verbal therapy to consult their embodiment when working with clients. It ends with some wider speculations about embodiment, connectedness, human history and ecosystemic thinking.
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Lowen in Brazil: Energy, Sexuality and Spirituality in Bioenergetics
NEW! Instantly download or order the CD of this brilliant lecture from Alexander Lowen, M.D.'s first visit to Brazil.
Lowen in Brazil
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Trauma-Sensitive Yoga by Dagmar Härle
Trauma-sensitive yoga is a body-based intervention for treating emotional responses to trauma and post-traumatic stress disorder.
View image in Publications for 10% discount code
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Il Corpo Sa / Body Sense - Genovino Ferri
Storie di Psicoterapie in Supervisione / Stories of Psychotherapy Supervision
Newly published in Italian and also as an ebook, in English.
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