Publisher's Synopsis
This book captures a pivotal moment in the development of the relational tradition: the recognition of the impact of nonverbal embodied dimensions of communication on the transference and countertransference matrix in the therapeutic relationship. The authors take a three-pronged approach. Building on the early work of Sigmund Freud and Wilhelm Reich, part one traces the philosophical, developmental, and neuroscientific investigations into the embodied aspects of experience which shape analytic interaction. Part two offers clinically-focused illustrations for an expanded model of clinical attention beyond the verbal realm, with both micro and macro focus. Going even further, part three presents ways in which psychoanalytic training can be expanded and responsive to this wider attention to nonverbal interaction, including strategies already successfully being applied in training and treatment.
