Physical Touch in Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy

This groundbreaking book presents a new model for incorporating the human body, and specifically physical touch, into psychoanalysis and psychotherapy, particularly for patients who have experienced trauma.

Auteur

Edward T. Novak is a psychoanalyst in private practice in Akron, Ohio, who trained at the National Institute for the Psychotherapies in their National Training Program in New York. He has presented at international conferences and published numerous articles, including a number on touch in psychotherapy and psychoanalysis. He is the book review editor for the Transactional Analysis Journal and a member of the editorial review board.

Contenu

Introduction 1. Stolen Bodies and Sacred Spaces 2. A Model of Informed Physical Contact 3. My Experience of Embodies Therapy 4. Training, Study, and the Art of Embodied Therapy 5. Brief Embodied Therapy 6. Embodied Misattunements and Mistakes That Are Part of Treatment and Boundary Violations That Are Not 7. Mike: An Integration of Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy and Embodied Therapy 8. Jodie: Childhood Trauma 9. Jodie: Adult Trauma 10. Jodie: Mind and Body Integration 11. Embodied Work in Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy Without Touch 12. Further Considerations and Ongoing Discussions about Embodied Therapy