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Further Reading

The course is based on a synthesis and development of my own teaching and study. The Compendium which comes with the course provides much of the reading material. The following books are useful background or tasters.

Primary

Aposhyan, S (2004) Body-Mind Psychotherapy: Principles, Techniques and Practical Applications (New York: Norton)

Cozolino, L (2006)The neuroscience of human relationships:attachment and the developing social brain New York : Norton

Damasio, A Descartes Error:Emotion, Reason and the Human Brain (Putnam, 1994)

Cohen,  B.B Sensing, Feeling and Action:The Experiential Anatomy of Body-Mind Centering (Contact Editions, 1993)

*This book has been reprinted & is available on http://www.bodymindcentering.com

The illustrations, interviews and photographs are very inspiring

Fogel, A. (2009) The Psychophysiology of Self-Awareness: Rediscovering the Lost Art of Body Sense  New York: Norton

Hartley, LThe Wisdom of the Body Moving (N.Atlantic Books, 1994)

Juhan, D Job’s Body: A Handbook for Bodywork (Station Hill, 1987)

Olsen, A (1991) BodyStories: An Experiential Anatomy (Station Hill Press, New York)

Anatomy books

Note: you don’t need to learn the actual detail of anatomy as part of this course but you can if you want to. 

Kapit, W. (1987) The Physiology Colouring Book (Harper Collines, New York)

Kapit, W. (1977) The Anatomy Colouring Book (Harper Collines, New York)

For over 23 years, The Anatomy Coloring Book has been the leading human anatomy coloring book, offering concisely written text and precise, extraordinary hand-drawn figures. Organized according to body systems, each of the 170 plates featured in this book includes an ingenious color-key system anatomical terminology is linked to detail illustration of the structures of the body.

Colouring in is fun & a great way to learn

Secondary

Abrams, D (1997) The Spell of the Sensuous: perception and language in a more than human world (Vintage, London)

Bloom, K. (2006) The Embodied Self: Movement and Psychoanalysis

London: Karnac Books

Bucci, W. (2008).  The role of bodily experience in emotional organization:  New perspectives on the multiple code theory.  In F. S. Anderson (Ed.).  Bodies in Treatment.  (pp. 51-76).  New York, NY:  The Analytic Press.

Corrigall, J., H. Payne, & H. Wilkinson (Eds.).  About a body.  Working with the embodied mind in psychotherapy.  (pp. 33-49).  London: Routledge.

Damasio, A. (1999) The Feeling of What Happens: Body, Emotion and the Making of Consciousness (Heineman, London)

Frank, R (2001)  Body of Awareness: a somatic and developmental approach to psychotherapy Cambride, Massachusetts: Gestalt press

Gallagher, S. (2005) How the body shapes the mind  Oxford University Press  

La Barre, F. (2001). On moving and being moved. Nonverbal behaviour in clinical practice. Hillsdale, New Jersey: The analytic press.

Mindell, A (1989) Rivers Way: The Process Science of the Dreambody (London, Arkana)

Ogden, P, K.Minton, & C.Pain (2006) Trauma and the Body: a sensorimotor approach to psychotherapy (Norton: New York)

Panksepp, J (1998) Affective Neuroscience: The foundations of human and animal emotions (Oxford University Press)

Rothschild, B (2000) The Body Remembers: The Psychophysiology of Trauma and Trauma Treatment (Norton, London)

Stern, D. (2010) Forms of Vitality: Exploring Dynamic Experience in Psychology, the Arts, Psychotherapy, and Development   Oxford University Press

Trevarthen, C & Aitken, K.J. (2001) ‘Infant Intersubjectivity: research, theory and clinical application’ Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry vol 42, no 1 pp3-48

Related Websites

http://www.integralbody.co.uk

http://www.erthworks.co.uk

www.lindahartley.co.uk

http://www.bodymindcentering.com

http://www.freeforming.net

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