About a Body - Working with the Embodied Mind in Psychotherapy Corrigall Jenny NHS primary care counselling service Cambridge UK Paperback

How does our body reveal us to ourselves?The body can inform the work we do in mental health. Instead of splitting off the body and treating the patient as a body with a mind, contributors from a variety of approaches ask the reader to consider how we might be with, and work with, 'bodymind' as an interrelated whole. This unique collection invites the reader to consider the way we think about the embodied mind, and how it can inform both our lives and our work in psychotherapy and counselling.The body is viewed as integral to the mind in this book, and in the approaches illustrated in it.

Subjects covered include:the application of affective neuroscience understandings to life as well as to clinical issuesthe body in psychotherapy with a person who is facing deaththe history,