Featuring a foreword by Donald Kalsched , this important book examines the integration of the subjectively experienced body in the practice of depth psychology.
Barbara Holifield draws from philosophical perspectives, neuroscientific and infant research, developmental theory, and trauma studies to offer a comprehensive overview of embodiment within a relationally based psychoanalytic approach. Clinical vignettes demonstrate the critical value of working with the bodily-felt dimension of implicit relational memory and emphasize how bodily-felt sense facilitates access to feelings. The mythopoetic reality revealed in depth psychotherapeutic process weaves all of this into a tapestry of personal meaning. Here the body serves as a portal to the numinous––healing that goes far beyond the relief of symptoms to a renewed sense of aliveness.
This book offers guiding principles for psychotherapists and clinicians of all levels to engage the bodily basis of experience in their clinical practice. It will appeal to general readers interested in integrating mind and body, including those in the healing arts, fine arts, dance, athletics, meditation, yoga, and martial arts.

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Development, Trauma, and Transformation in the Unspoken Realm

Taylor & Francis Ltd

United Kingdom and Ireland, United Kingdom

Cover
Endorsements Page
Half Title
Title Page
Copyright Page
Dedication
Table of Contents
Acknowledgments
Foreword
Introduction
References
1 The Way In
Beauty
Sometimes the Way In Is through the Body
Our Brain Dwells in Our Body as Well as in Our Head
What Is Concealed When the Body Is Missing?
Ancient Universal Wisdom Expressed through the Body
What Is Revealed When the Body Is Acknowledged?
The Emergence of Contemporary Approaches to Bodily-based Wisdom
Inhabiting Our Bodies and, by Means of That, the World
Linking and De-linking Body and Mind
The Body as the Vessel for Transformation
Sometimes the Way In Is Wounding
A Brief History of the Body in Depth Psychology
Depth Psychology Addresses Which Body and Whose?
Body–Mind?
The Turn toward Moment-to-Moment in-the-Body Sensing and Feeling
Notes
References
2 Sensing the Self, Sensing the World
The Primal Feeling of Being Alive: Interoception
Interoceptive Awareness
Case Study of Eva
Interoceptive Awareness and Its Disruption in Trauma
The Story of Eva
Adjunctive Help: Making Art
The Interoceptive Loop
Attention to Interoceptive Loop While Working with Eva
An Alchemical Vessel Forms through Developing Interoceptive Awareness
Interoceptive Awareness and the Importance of Slowing Down Associative Process
Exteroception: Meeting the World
The Cultural Shaping of Sensory Perception
Case Vignette: Jackson
Reflections on the Relevance of Intero- and Exteroceptive Awareness in Early Stages of Psychotherapeutic Work
Prana—the Subtle Vibratory Aliveness of Your Body: A Meditation
Notes
References
3 Body-Based Inquiries
Attention
Patience
Opening
Entering the Sensory Experience of Each Moment
Working with Bodily-felt Pain
Amplification and Matching
Turning Inward Sensing the Feeling Body
Subtle Energies of the Nervous System
Transformative Practices
Notes
References
4 Attaining Embodiment: A Developmental Perspective
The Significance of Implicit Memories in Psychotherapy
The Three Domains of the Preverbal Intersubjective Sense of Self
Case Vignette: Rick
Secondary Intersubjectivity: The Sense of a Verbal Self
Case Vignette: Lucinda
Being Felt and Feeling
Reflecting on Stern’s Clinical Applications
Braiding the Nonverbal and Verbal Worlds
Reawakening to the Nonverbal World
A Guided Practice to Bodily-based Experience
Notes
References
5 Forms of Vitality
Movement Is Life
Understanding Forms of Vitality
Body-based Inquiry and the Movement of Vitality
Affects Imprint in the Body in Time and Continue over Time
The Default Mode Network and Cultivating Vitality after Trauma
Alie’s Song
Notes
References
6 Languaging the Body
Case Vignette: Róisín
The Body Languaged by the Analysand
Summary
Note
References
7 The Significance of the Body in Transforming Trauma from a Depth Psychotherapeutic Perspective
The Imaginal Realm
The Non-verbal Dimensions of the Numinous
Weaving an Approach to the Inner World of Trauma with the Polyvagal Theory of Emotion and Somatic Experiencing
A Depth Psychological Approach to the Inner World of Trauma and the Archetypal Self-Care System
Embodied Self-protective Mechanisms
The Polyvagal Theory of Emotion: The Neuropsychological Underpinnings of the Archetypal Affect Ignited in Trauma
Story Making and Pre-Affective and Pre-Cognitive Events
An Overview of Important Concepts of Somatic Experiencing
Case Studies
The Case of Eva (continued from Chapter 2)
The Case of Sally
Notes
References
8 The Body as Experienced by the Therapist
Mirror Neurons, Projective Identification, and Enactments
Reflecting Again on Enactments
References
9 The Poetics of Embodiment
Jung’s Paradoxical Perspective on Groups in the Context of Individuation
Interdependence, Interaffectivity, and the Web of Life
A Brief History of Authentic Movement/ Movement in Depth
Engaging the Implicit Realm in Psychotherapy Leads to Deep Change
The Practice of Authentic Movement
The Body as the Medium of Experience in Active Imagination: Authentic Movement
The Green Gulch Retreat
Neurodiversity
Interaffectivity
The Non-verbal Dimension of the Numinous
Interaffectivity and Ceremony
The Neuroscientic Basis of Interaffectivity
The Crucial Function of Making Shadow Material Conscious
Vulnerability as Strength
Notes
References
Conclusion
Reflections on Dyadic Work
Interaffectivity in Authentic Movement Group Practice
Neuroscience That Highlights Unity of Body and Mind
Biological Factors That Contribute to the Feeling of Separation of Psyche and Body
The Body a Facet of the Mysterium Coniunctionis
Notes
References
Index

2025-01-07