Talking Bodies: How Do We Integrate Working with the Body in Psychotherapy from an Attachment and Relational Perspective?

177 Pages·2014·4.6 MB·English

by  Kate White

TALKING BODIES
The John Bowlby Memorial Conference Monographs Series
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Unmasking Race, Culture, and Attachment in the Psychoanalytic Space
edited by Kate White
Sexuality and Attachment in Clinical Practice
edited by Kate White and Joseph Schwartz
Trauma and Attachment
edited by Sarah Benamer and Kate White
Shattered States: Disorganized Attachment and Its Repair
edited by Judy Yellin and Kate White
Terror Within and Without: Attachment and Disintegration: Clinical
Work on the Edge
edited by Judy Yellin and Orit Badouk Epstein
TALKING BODIES
How Do We Integrate Working
with the Body in Psychotherapy
from an Attachment and
Relational Perspective?
THE JOHN BOWLBY MEMORIAL
CONFERENCE MONOGRAPH 2012
Edited by
Kate White
The John Bowlby Memorial Conference Monographs
Series Editor: Kate White
First published in 2014 by
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Copyright © 2014 to Kate White for the edited collection, and to the individual
authors for their contributions.
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ABOUT THE EDITOR AND CONTRIBUTORS
Orit Badouk Epstein is an attachment-based psychoanalytic
psychotherapist (UKCP registered) and a supervisor working in pri-
vate practice. She works relationally with all client groups and has a
particular interest and passion for working with individuals who
have experienced extreme abuse and trauma, displaying symptoms
of dissociation. Orit is a trustee of the Clinic for Dissociative Studies.
She is co-author of Ritual Abuse and Mind Control: The Manipulation of
Attachment Needs (Karnac). She regularly writes articles and film and
book reviews and is Associate Editor of the journal Attachment: New
Directions in Psychotherapy & Relational Psychoanalysis and the ESTD
newsletter.
Roz Carroll is a Chiron-trained body psychotherapist. Over the past
two decades she has vigorously pursued interdisciplinary dialogue,
and counts relational psychoanalysis, attachment theory, authentic
movement and neuroscience as some of the most important influences
on her work. Roz teaches at The Minster Centre and Terapia, and has
given many lectures for Confer. She is the author of numerous articles
and chapters including, most recently, Self-Regulation—An Evolving Con-
cept at the Heart of Body Psychotherapy in Contemporary Body Psychotherapy
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CONTENTS
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS vii
ABOUT THE EDITOR AND CONTRIBUTORS ix
INTRODUCTION xiii
Kate White
CHAPTER ONE
Attachment theory and the John Bowlby Memorial
Lecture 2012: a short history 1
Kate White
CHAPTER TWO
Four relational modes of attending to the body
in psychotherapy 11
Roz Carroll
CHAPTER THREE
Embodiment and the social bond 41
Nick Totton
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vi CONTENTS
CHAPTER FOUR
Attachment and energy psychology: explorations
at the interface of bodily, mental, relational, and
transpersonal aspects of human behaviour and experience 65
Phil Mollon
CHAPTER FIVE
Wisdom of the body, lost and found: the nineteenth
John Bowlby Memorial Lecture 89
Pat Ogden
CHAPTER SIX
Touching trauma: working relationally and safely with the
unboundaried body 109
Orit Badouk Epstein
CHAPTER SEVEN
The body I want: a psychotherapy with a disabled man 125
Mark Linington
APPENDIX ONE
Recommended reading 143
APPENDIX TWO
The Bowlby Centre 147
INDEX 150
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
Thanks to the members of the John Bowlby Memorial Conference 2012
Planning Group: Orit Badouk Epstein, France Couelle, Helene Everitt,
Brenda Prince and Judy Yellin for their creative work in producing yet
another stimulating and groundbreaking conference that has enabled
the emergence of this important publication. Also, many thanks to all
the contributors to the conference, whose profound, creative and coura-
geous work can now reach a much wider audience.
Particular thanks to our nineteenth John Bowlby Memorial Lecturer
2012, Dr Pat Ogden, whose innovative presentation provided a
context for the leading-edge clinical discussions emerging out of this
conference.
A special thank you to Oliver Rathbone for his continuing belief in
the value of publishing these monographs, and to his colleagues at
Karnac Books for their patience and support in their production and
publication.
Kate White,
Editor and Series Editor,
John Bowlby Memorial Conference Monographs
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