Sensorimotor Psychotherapy: Interventions for Trauma and Attachment

by Janina Fisher and Pat Ogden

Book Overview

The body's intelligence is largely an untapped resource in psychotherapy, yet the story told by the "somatic narrative"-- gesture, posture, prosody, facial expressions, eye gaze, and movement -- is arguably more significant than the story told by the words. The language of the body communicates implicit meanings and reveals the legacy of trauma and of early or forgotten dynamics with attachment figures. To omit the body as a target of therapeutic...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0393706133
• ISBN13: 9780393706130
• Release Date: April 2015
• Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
• Length: 832 Pages
• Weight: 3.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.6" x 8.3" x 10.3"