Table of Contents

Foreword -- Introduction -- The Rhythmic Body -- Polyrhythmic weave of micro-moment interaction -- Dialogue: the song that’s in our head -- The Living Body -- A body in relationship -- A birthing body -- Dialogue: the living body -- The Sensual Body -- In search of erotic intelligence -- La petite mort -- Dialogue: imagining desire -- The Body of Pain -- There is no process in death -- A woman, singing to herself -- Dialogue: screaming into Hell -- The Beautiful Body -- Subjects of beauty -- The journey back to self-worth -- Dialogue: recognising beauty -- The Divine Body -- Where is body? -- In my flesh I shall see God -- Dialogue: down the mountain -- The Psychotherapist’s Body -- Responding to a boundary -- Like love -- Dialogue: falling off the horse

About the Author

Liron Lipkies is a relational body psychotherapist, accredited by the European Association of Body Psychotherapy and a Yoga therapist. She is part of the teaching faculty at Psychosoma, the post graduate body psychotherapy school at the Israeli Centre for Body Mind Medicine. Liron finds nature as an inspiring teacher for working with people, for living life and as a ground for being in relationships. Noa Oster is a relational body psychotherapist, accredited by the European Association of Body Psychotherapy. She lectures and teaches at Psychosoma, the post graduate relational body psychotherapy school at the Israeli Centre for Body Mind Medicine. She is also a dancer, and an explorer of body, mind and spirit. Asaf Rolef Ben-Shahar, PhD, is a relational psychotherapist from Israel, founder of two relational body psychotherapy programmes (in Israel and the UK), teaching and lecturing worldwide. His books include 'Anatomy of Therapy' and 'Touching the Relational Edge'. He is the Editor-in-Chief of 'The International Body Psychotherapy Journal', and an editor with 'Body Dance and Movement in Psychotherapy', 'Psychotherapy and Politics International' and 'Self and Society'.

Reviews

'The editors of this book have created what I hope will be only the first in a series of works exploring the embodiment of life, and the life of embodiment, in psychotherapy and everyday life. Bringing together psychotherapists, psychoanalysts, and creative people in multiple fields, they have invited them to explore multitudinous aspects of embodiment as healing and healer. The work as a whole, as well as each chapter and section, has a vitality and rhythm that propel the reader into the immediacy of visceral experience. Among the plethora of books suddenly lining my shelves acknowledging the psychology of the body, this book stands out not only for its erudition, but also for the creativity of its approach and organisation.'- Jacqueline A. Carleton, PhD, Founding Editor, International Body Psychotherapy Journal; National Institute for the Psychotherapies Integrative Trauma Treatment Program