The Language of Neuroception and the Bodily Self
Hakomi Forum, Issue 18, pp.37-39 (2007)
This article explores the importance of language especially as it relates to the micro-sensory experience of the body for which vocabulary is often inadequate. It outlines the role of attuned caregivers whose task it is to name reality for the developing child and argues the importance of finding adequate cortical representation for the felt sense.
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Part III: Neuroscience in Somatic Psychotherapy
The USA Body Psychotherapy Journal, Volume 5:2, pp.43-60 (2006)
This third section considers the emergent connections between neuroscience and somatic psychotherapy. Does neuroscience support or challenge existing somatic approaches? Can neurobiological knowledge lead to new guidelines for crafting therapeutic interventions and suggest refinements and modifications for existing frameworks? Intuitively, one would have to answer a resounding YES! Indeed,
there is much to be excited about.
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Part II: Affective and Developmental Neuroscience
The USA Body Psychotherapy Journal, Volume 4:1, pp.28-50 (2005)
This second of a three part digest looks at the theories of Jaak Panksepp and Antonio Damasio, at Allan Schore’s regulation theory, and Daniel Siegel’s interpersonal neurobiology.
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Part I: A Neuroscience Digest [with Primer of Terms and Concepts]
The USA Body Psychotherapy Journal, Volume 3:2, pp.4-29 (2004)
This first of a three part digest approaches the now extensive neuroscience literature with an educational objective and an eye to its relevance to our somatic psychotherapeutic work. These reviews are intended to serve as an orientation to the broad field of neuroscience and as a point of reference to one of its core integrative questions: What is the self in neurobiological terms?
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Understanding the Mind-Brain and Nervous System
From Felt-Sense to Felt-Self
Psychologist-Psychoanalyst, Volume XXIII, Fall 2003
Reprinted in the Hakomi Forum, Issue 16-17 (2006)
Whatever the nature of the clinical issues, there is now solid evidence for the critical role of touch in human psychology and biology. Recent neurobiological research indicates that critical levels of tactile input of a specific quality and emotional content in early postnatal life are important for normal brain maturation. —From the introduction by Dr. Allan Schore
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Body-Centered Publications Based on the Psychology of
C.G. Jung
The USA Body Psychotherapy Journal, Volume 2:2, pp.60-74 (2003)
This article presents nine body-centered Jungian-based publications addressing four important themes that are in the foreground of body symbolism: 1) the body in archetypal symbolism, 2) the body as intuitive sacred ground, 3) the body as repository for unarticulated feelings, and 4) illness as metaphorical source of insight motivating the individuation journey. Relevant Jungian concepts are explained so that the reader who
is unfamiliar with Jungian approaches can become more conversant in Jungian theory.
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Soul Roots
Psychological Perspectives, The Semi-Annual Journal of the C.G. Jung Institute, Issue Twenty-One, pp.130-139 (1989)
A poetic and visual essay which makes the link between the author’s paintings and childhood photographs.
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