Description
Book SynopsisBring the physical dimension into your therapeutic work with couples! This helpful book offers couples therapists new and powerful techniques derived from several body-oriented therapies. This fresh approach can help you identify the hidden conflicts and attitudes of your clients. Couples and Body Therapy offers you exercises, tips, and practical suggestions for helping troubled couples. In Couples and Body Therapy, expert therapists candidly discuss the dangers and benefits of using touch to heal. Their discussion of whether, when, how, and whom to touch clients includes valuable suggestions for working through transference and countertransference, as well as for dealing with hostile clients and obtaining informed consent to touch.Couples and Body Therapy provides thoughtful explorations of the ideas and methods of well-regarded experts--including Virginia Satir, Wilhelm Reich, Alexander Lowen, John Pierrakos, Fritz Perls, Stanley Keleman, and John Gutman--as the
Table of ContentsContents
- Preface
- Virginia Satir and Body-Mind-Soul
- Grounding in Couples Core Energetic Therapy
- Core Energetic Couples Therapy: An Integrated Approach
- Sexuality and Intimacy in Couples Therapy: The Journey of the Soul
- Keeping It Up
- Couples Therapy as a Formative Process
- Touch in Psychotherapy
- Body Psychotherapy with Couples: Using the Seven Developmental Stages Model of Bodynamic Analysis
- Working Experientially and Somatically with Couples
- Method Acting and Gestalt Therapy with Couples
- Index
- Reference Notes Included
