Praxis Körperpsychotherapie

This book presents ten fundamental principles of experience-centered psychotherapy that integrates bodily experience, body awareness, body expression, and body communication. It introduces therapy as an embodied encounter and conveys how to involve the body and the language used for this purpose—making the concept of embodiment practically applicable. It also addresses the significance of experiencing and learning, the indications and contraindications of techniques, the therapeutic relationship, and the principles of body psychotherapy. Written for psychological and medical psychotherapists, body and movement therapists, students, and interested individuals. Contents include: perceiving and sensing, awareness and presence, exploring and discovering, activating and expressing, regulating and modulating, centering and grounding, touching and holding, staging.