Talking Bodies book

TALKING BODIES

How do we Integrate Working with the Body in Psychotherapy from an Attachment and Relational Perspective?

EDITED BY KATE WHITE

Part of the The John Bowlby Memorial Conference Monograph Series

This monograph brings together the presentations from the nineteenth
John Bowlby Memorial Conference in 2012, organised by The Bowlby
Centre. The aim of this was to explore the growing role of the body in relational psychotherapy over the
last decade, and to bring us up to date in thinking about the relationship between attachment, the body and
trauma. Questions addressed included: How do we anchor the new understandings we are gaining within the
framework of attachment? How might the integration of these ideas about the body change what we do in the
consulting room? What impact might this have on the therapy relationship? Can we maintain and respect the
place of a secure, attuned attachment between therapist and client, and its healing potential, at the centre of our
therapeutic work?

Pat Ogden’s paper “Wisdom of the Body, Lost and Found” was the conference centrepiece and there are
contributions from leading clinicians including Roz Carroll, Mark Linington, and Orit Badouk Epstein. Each in their
different ways have brought their clinical experiences to life in their presentations and demonstrated this leading
edge work in relation to the themes of the body and touch with clients including those so often regarded as
“unsuitable for therapy”, namely those who have a physical or learning disability or those who have survived
extreme trauma through the painful means of psychic protection resulting in dissociative states of mind.
Other contributors include Phil Mollon on “Attachment and Energy Psychology” and Nick Totton on “Embodiment
and the Social Bond”.

About the Author

Kate White is a training therapist, supervisor and teacher at The Bowlby Centre. Formerly senior lecturer at South Bank University in the Department of Nursing and Community Health Studies, she has used her extensive experience in adult education to contribute to the innovative psychotherapy curriculum developed at The
Bowlby Centre. In addition to working as an individual psychotherapist, Kate runs workshops on the themes of attachment and trauma in clinical practice.

Price: £ 16.24
Pbk 176pp, June 2014
ISBN:9781782201069

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