About a Body - 9780415400718

Taylor & Francis Ltd

About a BodyWorking with the Embodied Mind in Psychotherapy\nAuthor(s): Jenny Corrigall, Helen Payne, Heward Wilkinson\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd, United Kingdom\nImprint: Routledge\nISBN-13: 9780415400718, 978-0415400718\nSynopsis\nHow does our body reveal us to ourselves? \n\nThe body can inform the work we do in mental health. This unique collection invites the reader to consider the way we think about the embodied mind, and how it can inform both our lives and our work in psychotherapy and counselling. \n\nThe body is viewed as integral to the mind in this book, and in the approaches illustrated in it. Instead of splitting off the body and treating the patient as a body with a mind, contributors from a variety of approaches ask the reader to consider how we might be with, and work with, bodymind as an interrelated whole. Subjects covered include:\n\nthe application of affective neuroscience understandings to life as well as to clinical issues \n\nthe b.