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Embodiment
and emotion:
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course outline, dates
& cost • syllabus & reading list • relevant papers |
The aim of this course is explore how breakthroughs in neuroscience have deepened our understanding of emotion as a body-state. These lectures will use science to nourish an integrative model of psychotherapy. Changes in both fields are part of a paradigm shift which is enabling an increasingly rigorous holistic perspective. What this means for psychotherapy is that feeling, thinking and acting need to be recognised as embodied processes. The clinical implications of this will be a central focus of the course.
Embodiment and Emotion will introduce the work of key pioneers in neuroscience who are re-orienting metapsychology, including Schore, Damasio, Panksepp and Solms. It will explore the role of areas of the brain which have recently come under the spotlight : the orbitofrontal cortex, the cingulate, and the amygdala. It is clearly recognised now that mind is not a thing (a brain) but a process. The embodied brain is the dynamic structure through which this process operates.
The course will focus on four profoundly interrelated therapeutic issues: affect regulation, attachment, trauma and the body. I want to review how we work with these issues within the framework of transference-countertransference. My emphasis will be on drawing from a variety of traditions - object-relational, Jungian, systemic, and humanistic – and their ways of addressing the body. I will introduce interventions which directly address body states and look at how they operate within a clinical context.
email Roz Carroll |