The Embodied Psychotherapist: The Therapist's Body Story

by Robert Shaw

Book Overview

The therapist's body is a vital part of the therapeutic encounter, yet there is an inherent inadequacy in current psychotherapeutic discourse to describe the bodily phenomena. Until recently, for instance, the whole area of touch in psychotherapy has been given very little attention. The Embodied Psychotherapist uses accounts of therapists' own experiences to address this inadequacy in discourse, and provides strategies for incorporating these feelings...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 158391269X
• ISBN13: 9781583912690
• Release Date: August 2003
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 184 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.1" x 9.2"