BODY-MIND PSYCHOTHERAPY
Principles, Techniques, and Practical Applications
Susan Aposhyan
W.W.Norton & Company, 2004
LEARNING OBJECTIVES: Body-Mind Psychotherapy (BMP) presents a simple, user-friendly, and safe approach to integrating the body into therapy and psychological exploration. The techniques used are consistent with research from neuroscience, psychological development, and traumatology. As a result, the reader will find BMP both an effective and research-based therapeutic approach.
Body-mind psychotherapy takes the basic tools of mind-body integration and joins them with an awareness of emotional development. Working with techniques such as body awareness, touch, breath, and movement, BMP is one of the exciting frontiers of therapy. Body and mind are functionally inseparable. The cultural separation of body and mind, however, has confused our thinking and created obstacles for psychological health. In the first part of the book, Aposhyan discusses this false division and goes on to articulate the theoretical basis for the unity of body and mind. Part 2 provides an overview of the basic form of BMP. Beginning with the tasks of therapy, the chapters in this part describe the format of therapy in terms of a cycle of interaction between body and mind concluding with a consideration of the primary goal of BMP, a synchronization of body and mind founded in body awareness. The body systems are reviewed in Part 3. In Part 4, Aposhyan instructs readers in how to anchor in the body the change affected by BMP.
Susan Aposhyan, M.A., developed Body-Mind Psychotherapy and has been involved in training psychotherapists internationally in this method for two decades. She maintains a private practice and has also authored Natural Intelligence: Body-Mind Integration and Human Development.
9 CE credits; 288 pages
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