Embodiment in Psychotherapy: A Practitioner's Guide

✍ Scribed by Gernot Hauke, Ada Kritikos (eds.)

• Publisher: Springer
• Year: 2018
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 386
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

This groundbreaking clinical guide explores the theory behind embodiment in psychotherapy, the science that underlies its methods, and how this knowledge can offer greater depth to clinical practice. Experts across the cognitive and behavioral sciences analyze the complex roles of the body in helping create the self and convey agency, and the essential cognitive, emotional, and behavioral processes expressed in movement, gestures, and facial expressions. Diverse techniques are shown bridging gaps between emotional and bodily awareness and verbal and nonverbal communication to reinforce self-regulation, navigate social relationships, and support the therapeutic bond. These practical guidelines demonstrate the versatility of embodiment work in use with individuals, couples, and groups in addressing a wide range of emotional, interpersonal, and somatic concerns.

Among the topics covered:

· Embodiment as an organizing principle.

· Generating body focus: the gate to embodied work and emotional awareness.

· Embodiment of social interaction: our place in the world around us.

· Resource activation: bringing values into the flesh.

· Therapeutic alliance: grounding interaction in space.

· The power of embodying values in work place teams.

Expanding on while strengthening traditional theory and methods, Embodiment in Psychotherapy brings new directions in healing to researchers, clinicians, and psychotherapists of all schools in psychiatry, counseling, coaching, and social work, as well as psychology students, trainers, managers, and supervisors.

✦ Table of Contents

Dedication
Preface
How to Use the Book
Contents
Editors
Contributors
Chapter 1: Building a Body of Evidence: From Sensation to Emotion and Psychotherapy
1.1 From the Body’s Viscera to the Person’s Self
1.2 Embodiment in Body Ownership and Agency
1.3 Embodied Space: The Bridge Between Self and Others
1.4 The Conscious and Unconscious Construct of the Self
1.5 Embodied Processes Designed for Therapy
1.6 Generating Body Focus: The Gate to Embodied Work and Emotional Awareness
1.7 Developing Unconscious Schema and Behaviors: The Survival Strategy
1.8 The Emotional Field: Mapping the Embodied Emotional Mind
1.9 Resource Activation: Values in the Flesh
1.10 Emotional Mastery: The New Path, Departure and New Beginning
1.11 The Therapeutic Relationship: Communication Starts in the Body
References
Part I: Basics for Clinical Applications of Embodiment
Chapter 2: Interoception: Definitions, Dimensions, Neural Substrates
2.1 Interoception: Definition and Dimensions
2.2 Neuroanatomical Basis of Interoceptive Processing
2.3 Interoception as the Basis of the “Bodily Self”
2.4 Relevance for Therapeutic Applications
References
Chapter 3: Embodiment as an Organising Principle
3.1 Sensori-Motor Links in the Development of Self and Self-Other World
3.2 Early Embodiment Processes Lay the Foundation for the Way We Interpret the World
3.3 Forming Links to the Self Through Movement: How We Embody Things and People into the Self
3.4 Cultural and Social Contexts in Relation to the Self
References
Chapter 4: Embodiment of Emotion Regulation
4.1 The Concept of Emotion Regulation
4.2 Emotion Processing and Interoception
4.3 Models of Emotion Regulation
4.4 Interoceptive Abilities and Emotion Regulation
References
Chapter 5: Embodiment of Social Interaction: Our Place in the World Around Us
5.1 Joint Action
5.2 Embodied Emotion Is Crucial to Human Interactions
5.3 Embodied Empathy
5.4 Cultural Aspects of Embodied Self-Other Interactions
References
Chapter 6: The Thoughtful Self
6.1 Self-Reference Effects in Attention
6.2 Self-Reference Effects in Memory and Cognition
6.3 Our Self-Directed Memories Make Us Who We Are (And Are Not)
6.4 The Breakdown of the Self: Self Misidentification Disorders
References
Chapter 7: The Extended Self: “I Am a Part ofAll That I Have Met”
7.1 Ownership of Body and Agency of Actions
7.2 Ownership of Thoughts: I Think Therefore I Am
7.3 The Extended Self and Plasticity in Self-Other Boundaries
7.4 Embodied Self: How Do We Make Objects (and Other People) Part of Our Extended Selves?
References
Chapter 8: Embodiment: Reflective and Impulsive Processes
8.1 Dual Process Models
8.2 The Reflective-Impulsive Model
8.3 Behavioral Modifications
8.4 The Body in the RIM
References
Chapter 9: Embodiment Research – Building Bridges to Evidence-Based Clinical Practice
9.1 Top-Down Effects
9.2 Bottom-Up Effects
9.3 Research on Embodiment Interventions in the Clinical Setting
9.4 Critical Outlook
References
Part II: Elementary Embodiment Techniques for the Practice
Chapter 10: Generating Body Focus: A Stepping Stone to Emotional Awareness
10.1 Initiating Body Focus
10.2 Different Ways of Reading Body Signals
10.3 Sensitizing for Messages of the Body
10.4 Connecting Embodied Self-Awareness with Verbal Language in Therapeutic Processes
References
Chapter 11: Getting the Embodied Emotional Survival Strategy
11.1 Behaviour Serves the Satisfaction of Needs
11.2 Survival Strategy: Quintessence of the Learning History
11.3 Satisfaction of Needs and Felt Security
11.4 How Is Embodiment Realized Here?
11.5 Work Steps
References
Chapter 12: Mapping the Embodied Emotional Mind: The Emotional Field
12.1 What Are Emotions?
12.2 Primary and Secondary Emotions
12.3 How We Use Embodiment in the Emotional Field
12.4 Work Steps
12.5 Embodiment of Important Emotions
References
Chapter 13: Resource Activation: Bringing Values into the Flesh
13.1 The Concept of Personal Values
13.2 Personal Values, Body-Feedback and Self Regulation
13.3 Neurobiology of Personal Values
13.4 How We Use Embodiment in the Work with Values
13.5 Work Steps
13.5.1 Creation of a Value Pool
13.5.2 Establishing the Value Stance
13.5.3 Using Value Stance to Reduce Stress and Maintain the Overview
13.5.4 Embodied Choice: Separating the Wheat from the Chaff in the Values Corridor
References
Chapter 14: Emotional Mastery and Life Strategy: Moving to Solutions
14.1 Structure of Emotional Mastery and Its Building Blocks
14.2 How We Use Embodiment in Emotional Mastery
14.3 Work Steps
References
Chapter 15: Therapeutic Alliance: Grounding Interaction in Space
15.1 From Body to Body
15.2 How We Use Embodiment To Build The Therapeutic Alliance
15.3 Positioning Bodies in Space: The Emotional Quality of the Relationship Gets Visible
15.4 Work Steps
15.5 How to Become an Embodied Therapist
15.5.1 Building Block 1: A Solid Theoretical and Methodical Basis
15.5.2 Building Block 2: Advanced Training, Self-Experience and Supervision
15.5.3 Building Block 3: Self-Focus
15.5.4 Building Block 4: Interaction Focus
References
Part III: Elementary Embodiment Techniques
Applied to a Single Therapy Setting
Chapter 16: Psychotherapy
16.1 Depressive Disorder: I’m Not Entitled to Feel Happy
16.1.1 Life Strategy and the Development of Concrete Projects
16.2 Borderline Personality Disorder: Behind the Stress a Bunch of Emotions
16.2.1 Life Strategy and the Development of Concrete Projects (Table 16.8)
16.3 Anorexia Nervosa: The Witch in My Body-House
References
Chapter 17: Coaching
17.1 Embodied Leadership: It ‘Pays’ to Have an Eye for Gut Feelings and Emotions
17.2 Power Moves for the Passive Avoidant Leader
17.3 Gentle Moves for the Aggressive Leader: “What Got You Here Won’t Get You There!” A Case of Management Derailment
References
Part IV: Further on Up the Road: Embodiment Techniques Applied to More Complex Systems
Chapter 18: Distressed Couples: Improving Mutual Empathy and Emotional Regulation Using Embodied Empathy Mechanisms
18.1 The Importance of Emotion Regulation, Empathy and Needs for Relationships
18.2 How We Use the Embodiment in Couple Work
18.3 Work Steps
18.4 Background Information
References
Chapter 19: Embodiment in Group Therapy: From IQ to WeQ—Together We Are Stronger!
19.1 The Whole Is More than the Sum of Its Parts: The Group as a Power Factor.
19.2 Central Elements and Basic Principles of the Program
19.3 Preparing the Ground: Basic Conditions for Working Together
19.4 The Individual Modules of the Group Program
19.4.1 Module 1: Preparation Is Important!
19.4.2 Module 2: We Enter into Resonance—Introducing, Guiding, Probing
Opening round: “I’ll Make a Picture of Me and You!”
19.4.3 Module 3: Circling the Problem—Identifying the Individual Survival Strategy
19.4.4 Module 4: Entering The Emotional Field and Moving from Surviving to Living
Becoming more Flexible with the New Life Strategy
19.4.5 Module 5: Emotional Mastery—Finding a New Attitude to Life to Truly Achieve Valuable Goals
Emotions as Messengers for the New Problem Solution Path
Finding a New Life Attitude for Better Problem Solution
19.4.6 Module 6: Planning of Concrete Behaviour Projects
References
Chapter 20: The Power of Embodying Values in Work Place Teams
20.1 How We Use Embodiment for the Team Aspect of the Values
20.2 Process Steps for Values Work in the Team (Fig. 20.2)
Author Index
Subject Index