{"product_id":"the-bodily-roots-of-experience-in-psychotherapy-9781032210070","title":"The Bodily Roots of Experience in Psychotherapy","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis book explores the significance of movement processes as they shape one's experience through life. With an introductory foreword by Michael Vincent Miller, it provides a comprehensive, practical understanding of how we lose the wonder and curiosity we move with as children, and how we can reclaim that. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA new paradigm is presented in the making of experience through a radical and thorough investigation into the basics of animated life. The book utilizes a precise phenomenological language for those subverbal interactions that form the foundation of lived experience. The centrality of those interactions to the therapeutic encounter is set forth through richly detailed therapy vignettes. The building of experience is meticulously explored via the bridging of infant-parent dyads and the functional similarity of those dyads to the unfolding patient-therapist relationship. Readers learn to acknowledge routine inhibitions developed in early life, appreciate their former use\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eRuella Frank has given us a great gift. Keenly observed and richly considered, she connects us to the current of contact that underlies human experience. Her insights into the body’s role in both obstructing and facilitating entry into the present moment are invaluable.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMark Epstein is author of \u003ci\u003eThoughts without a Thinker\u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eand The Zen of Therapy: Uncovering a Hidden Kindness in Life\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eRuella Frank’s book explores a new paradigm for psychotherapy theory and practice explained with great simplicity and depth. It describes with experiential immediacy, and through sensitive case studies\u003cb\u003e,\u003c\/b\u003e the phenomenology of relational movements that build our being in the world and sets the ground for each unique therapeutic encounter. \u003cem\u003eThe Bodily Roots of Experience in Psychotherapy\u003c\/em\u003e is an excellent tool for psychotherapists of all modalities, and for those who want to orient themselves in the relational use of the body for healing relationships.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMargherita Spagnuolo Lobb is director Istituto di Gestalt HCC Italy and author of \u003ci\u003eThe Now for Next in Psychotherapy: Gestalt Therapy Recounted in Post-Modern Society\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eGiven her background and experience as a practising Gestalt psychotherapist, Ruella Frank’s detailed specifications and case studies of the psychophysical features of the \"Six Fundamental Movements\" that ground human interrelationships and human-world relationships are particularly edifying. Those psychophysical features document the integral relationship of movement and feelings, showing how that relationship is experientially evident from the very beginning, that is, in infancy and from infancy onward. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMaxine Sheets-Johnstone is author of \u003ci\u003eThe Primacy of Movement \u003c\/i\u003eand\u003ci\u003e Insides and Outsides: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Animate Nature\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e1. Developing Presence 2. Kinesthetic Resonance 3. The Forming of Form 4. Moving into Memory 5. Diagnosing through Movement 6. The Bodily Origins of Developmental Trauma\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Taylor \u0026 Francis Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51018902143319,"sku":"9781032210070","price":123.5,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781032210070.jpg?v=1750778592","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/the-bodily-roots-of-experience-in-psychotherapy-9781032210070","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}