A revolution is underway in how we think about human variation. It has the potential to transform the society and politics. Psychotherapy should be in the vanguard of this revolution. In this book, Totton aims to challenge and also help the reader, be they talking therapist, body therapist, client or anyone, to interrogate their own 'normality'.
This book celebrates wildness, both in global ecosystems and in the human psyche. Drawing on psychotherapy, philosophy, ecology, anthropology, futuristic fiction and much other literature, he shows the links between domesticated civilisation and the destruction of the innate balance of ecosystems.
Body Psychotherapy for the 21st Century looks at the wider psychotherapy field, bringing awareness of embodiment into what has been a verbally oriented profession. Engaging with neuroscience, phenomenology and cognitive studies, as well as the relational turn in psychotherapy.
Collected together for the first time, articles and chapters from the archive of Nick Totton. Discussing the politics of psychotherapy, his themes include democracy, equality, professionalization and regulation, pluralism, boundaries and ecopsychology. A collection that will make you think.
'Wild Therapy' is a way of naming the intersection point of several trends in psychotherapy and counselling. Most crucially, it is a response to how human connectedness to all the beings with whom we share this universe, has been largely severed. Why does therapy not address this condition in which most human activity now takes place?
Revised and updated edition of this body psychotherapy classic. Sets out to convey the essential features of Reichian Therapy in concrete and easily understandable language.
Body psychotherapy is an holistic therapy which approaches human beings as united bodymind, and offers embodied relationship as its central therapeutic stance. This title examines the field of body psychotherapy. It surveys the various forms of body psychotherapy. It defines central concepts of the field, and the skills needed by practitioners. schovat popis
Surveys how different schools of therapy approach a basic topic, and the differences that exist between people. This book examines the use of typologies of character and personality as a clinical tool; and offers general criteria for judging the merits of particular personality systems, as well as exploring the possibility of a wider synthesis. schovat popis