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OverviewWith contributions from Gabrielle Brown, William F. Cornell, Raffaella Hilty, Brett Kahr, Mark Linington, Salvatore Martini, David O’Driscoll, Valerie Sinason, and Tom Wooldridge. Every psychotherapist will be familiar with what it means to experience the hatred and despair of their most vulnerable patients in the midst of a psychotherapy session. Most often these patients will manage to express their feelings verbally, but what about those who never developed the capacity to speak? Or those who are capable of talking, but carry a complex range of unprocessed embodied feelings that cannot be verbally expressed? Some patients must rely on another type of language in order to communicate their dissociative states of mind. Primitive Bodily Communications explores how the ‘talking cure’ can still work when words fail and the body ‘talks’. Non verbal communication can be thought of as a form of body language and, even though this is a topic not frequently discussed, many practitioners have experienced working with people who communicate through the use of their bodies. The book does not refer to bodily communications as primitive because we see them as inferior to verbal language, but simply because they point to the beginnings of psychological development, to primary ways of being and relating, as well as to enduring aspects of ourselves. The contributors explore the topic of primitive bodily communications in the context of intellectual disability, eating disorders, and bodily neglect, focusing on the communicative aspect of bodily expressions within the therapeutic relationship. A wide spectrum of clinical cases illustrates how these patients can reach a state of better physical and emotional containment and, when possible, of verbal communication. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Raffaella HiltyPublisher: Karnac Books Imprint: Karnac Books Dimensions: Width: 15.60cm , Height: 1.60cm , Length: 23.40cm Weight: 0.490kg ISBN: 9781913494308ISBN 10: 1913494306 Pages: 264 Publication Date: 01 July 2022 Audience: Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In stock  We have confirmation that this item is in stock with the supplier. It will be ordered in for you and dispatched immediately. Table of ContentsAbout the authors Acknowledgements Foreword by Susie Orbach Use of terms Introduction by Raffaella Hilty 1.The spitting patient: speaking with sputum and free-associating with saliva Brett Kahr 2. Working with primitive bodily communications in the context of unbearable trauma in non-verbal patients Valerie Sinason 3. The sound of silence. Working with people with an intellectual disability who self-harm David O’Driscoll 4. Patients who smell: olfactory communication and the mephitic other Gabrielle Brown 5. Body odour in a psychoanalytic treatment: bridge or drawbridge to a troubled past? Raffaella Hilty 6. In corpore inventitur: embodied countertransference and the process of unconscious somatic communication Salvatore Martini 7. Revisiting the entropic body: when the body is the canvas Tom Wooldridge 8. When the psyche shreds and the body takes over William F. Cornell 9. Responding to trauma-based communication in psychotherapy Mark Linington References IndexReviews[A] brilliant new collection . . . crisp, compelling writing that is broad and timely in scope. - Dr. Steven Kuchuck, author of The Relational Revolution in Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy and Past President, International Association for Relational Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy (IARPP) These highly skilled psychotherapists give us a remarkable insight into how these complex communications can be received and understood in the consulting room. - Graeme Galton, Consultant Psychotherapist, Clinic for Dissociative Studies This enlightening book dares to tell the stories of patients often avoided or neglected by psychotherapists . . . It will be invaluable to experienced mental health professionals and trainees alike, as diverse psychoanalytic approaches are combined to offer a vivid and deeply moving picture of the treatments of those shamefully forgotten by so many and from whom we can learn so much. - Dr Carine Minne, Consultant Psychiatrist in Forensic Psychotherapy [A] brilliant new collection . . . crisp, compelling writing that is broad and timely in scope. - Dr. Steven Kuchuck, author of The Relational Revolution in Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy and Past President, International Association for Relational Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy (IARPP) These highly skilled psychotherapists give us a remarkable insight into how these complex communications can be received and understood in the consulting room. - Graeme Galton, Consultant Psychotherapist, Clinic for Dissociative Studies This enlightening book dares to tell the stories of patients often avoided or neglected by psychotherapists . . . It will be invaluable to experienced mental health professionals and trainees alike, as diverse psychoanalytic approaches are combined to offer a vivid and deeply moving picture of the treatments of those shamefully forgotten by so many and from whom we can learn so much. - Dr Carine Minne, Consultant Psychiatrist in Forensic Psychotherapy Author InformationRaffaella Hilty MA (Phil) is an attachment-based psychoanalytic psychotherapist with The Bowlby Centre. She has worked as an Honorary Psychotherapist within the NHS for a number of years, and she now works in private practice in London. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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