Embodied Approaches to Psychotherapy

Working in an Embodied and Relational Style

In this talk body psychotherapist Nick Totton argues that embodied relating is in fact the ground of all psychotherapy, including psychotherapy which sees itself as purely verbal; and that we can strengthen and enrich our work by re-construing concepts like transference and countertransference as embodied phenomena. He brings in evidence material from neuroscience, embodied cognitive science, and philosophy, together with clinical vignettes, and ends by suggesting how any psychotherapist can start to work with embodied relating in their practice.