Michael C. Heller Books

Exploring the intersection of bodily experiences with emotional and psychological well-being, this book delves into body psychotherapy as a contemporary approach rooted in extensive historical concepts. It uncovers how ancient practices and theories from various cultures have shaped modern methods, highlighting the evolution of body/mind treatment over centuries. The text offers insights into how these foundational ideas inform current psychotherapeutic practices, making it a valuable resource for understanding the depth of this innovative field.

Just Beyond Listening asks how we might think about encounters with sound that complicate standard accounts of aurality. In a series of essays, Michael C. Heller considers how sound functions in dialogue with a range of sensory and affective modalities, including physical co-presence, textual interference, and spectral haunting. The text investigates sound that is experienced in other parts of the body, altered by cross-wirings of the senses, weaponized by the military, or mediated and changed by cultural practices and memory. Building on recent scholarship in sound studies and affect theory, Heller questions not only how sound propagates acoustically but how sonic presences temper our total experience of the world around us.