Embodied Approaches to Psychotherapy

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Julianne Appel-Opper

1.

Julianne Appel-Opper quotes her colleague Shoshi Asheri. What does she quote? (Select one correct answer).

"Beside the physical resonances, we also react with physical impulses such as tiny movements."

We receive (messages) as physical resonances and sensations, what Shoshi Asheri beautifully terms as “felt participation”.

Shoshi Asheri describes these as "physical resonances and sensations"

2.

Julianne Appel-Opper suggests (Select all that are correct)

The body can also store imprints of trauma, which restrict how new experiences are managed.

Clients broadcast their pre-verbal implicit relational knowledge.

The traumatic body-to-body-communication can be hypo- and hyperarousal.

Asaf Rolef Ben-Shahar

3.

Asaf Rolef Ben-Shahar (select one correct answer)

Asks the interviewer to turn her chair

Asks the interviewer to move his legs

Asks the interviewer to stand up

4.

During the interview Asaf Rolef Ben-Shahar says that he is feeling (select all correct answers)

Vulnerable

Irritated

Tearful

Bill Cornell

5.

Bill Cornell sought the work of theorists who wrote systematically about the body, and found three people. Who were they? (select one correct answer)

Christopher Bollas, Gerda Boyesen and David Boadella

Donald Winnicott, Jim Kepner and Donald Stern

Donald Winnicott, Christopher Bollas and James McLaughlin

6.

Bill Cornell states that touch in embodied psychotherapy is (select any correct quotes)

"Touch is not a countertransferential acting-out."

"Touch is a contribution to the ongoing learning and information of the client."

"Touch is an intentional therapeutic intervention."

Morit Heitzler

7.

Morit Heitzler says that the client enables the therapist to feel their bodymind states in her own body. How do they do this? (select one correct answer)

Through description of body states

Via somatic projective identification

Through touch

8.

Morit Heitzler says the therapist will try and resist the client's trauma because (select any correct answer):

The experience of the trauma is a parallel process: resisting and getting away from the trauma state is actually what the client is desperately trying to do

Nobody likes to feel helpless in the face of the trauma states

It is not helpful to the client when the therapist enters into a state of traumatic resonance

Pat Ogden

9.

Pat Ogden says (select one correct answer):

In trauma, animal defensive responses are activated at the time, but are not executed completely.

In trauma, human defensive responses are activated at the time, but are not executed completely.

In trauma, animal defensive responses are activated after the event, but are not executed completely.

10.

Pat Ogden says (select one correct answer):

The root of dysregulated arousal in trauma is interpretation of the event and it thus needs to be processed at an intellectual level

The root of dysregulated arousal in trauma is physiology and thus needs to be processed on an emotional level

The root of dysregulated arousal in trauma is physiology and thus needs to be processed on a bodily level, not an emotional level

Susie Orbach

11.

In the video Susie Orbach says which of the following (select one correct answer)

"Just as one can unlearn insecure patterns of relating, you can unlearn bad ways of eating."

"Just as one can have earned security in attachment, you can have earned body-security."

"Just as one can have security in attachment, you can have security about the way that you dress."

12.

Which of the following does Susie Orbach say? (select one correct answer)

"The body that you are given and the food that you are given happen at the same time."

"We grow up learning that our bodies are never really connected to our minds."

"The way we eat and the food we desire is a reflection of our self-worth."

Yorai Sella

13.

Yorai Sella says that in his PhD he made 4 statements about the link between psychoanalysis to body-mind connections. Which of the following are correct? (Select all correct answers)

The therapist's presence in the relationship

Expression including any words that one says

Potentiality or a constant emergence of things happening.

14.

Yorai Sella says (select one correct answer)

Clinical knowhow may be guided by Shinto ethical paradigms

Clinical knowhow may be guided by Zen and Daoist therapeutic paradigms

Clinical knowhow may be guided by the discipline of martial arts practices

Jon Sletvold

15.

Jon Sletvold says (select one correct answer)

"My conception of the embodied therapist rests on an integrated psychoanalytic and neurobiological view"

"My conception of the embodied therapist rests on an integrated psychoanalytic and humanistic view"

"My conception of the embodied therapist rests on moment to moment physical interactions"

16.

Jon Sletvold's presentation refers to certain theoretical influences. Which of the following lists are relevant? (select one list):

Carl Jung, Wilhelm Reich, Karen Horney, David Wallin

Wilhelm Reich, Margaret Mahler, Donald Winnicott, Allan Schore

Sigmund Freud, Wilhelm Reich, Donald Stern, Jessica Benjamin

Michael Soth

17.

Michael Soth says that traditionally Body-Psychotherapy has had some specific limitations. Which of the following does he cite? (select any correct answers)

A general obliviousness regarding countertransference

An over-attention to cognitive processes

A tendency to objectify the client, using body-mind terms and values

18.

Michael Soth made which of the following statements? (select one correct answer)

"I intended to reclaim the body for psychotherapy."

“How can we seriously imagine that bringing the body back after 100 years of disembodied 'talking therapies' is just a question of adding on a few new techniques?"

"It's not possible to conceive of a true integration of the body into the psychoanalytic paradigm."

Kathrin Stauffer

19.

Kathrin Stauffer says which of the following? (select one correct quote)

"By looking at the development of someone's physical body in the present moment can give you access to what the person's emotional issues might have been in childhood."

"By looking at the development of someone's physical body in early life can give you access to what the person's emotional issues might be, and vice versa."

"By looking at the state of someone's physical body in the session can give you access to their emotional issues might be."

20.

Kathrin Stauffer talks autobiographically about 'being in one's body' as follows (select any correct answers)

She talks about the importance of her psychotherapy training in becoming more aware of her bodily self

She considers her childhood experience of her body.

She reflects on her former split between her thought processes, emotions and body.

Nick Totton

21.

Which of the following statements does Nick Totton make? (select any that are correct)

"The embodied relationship makes space for all that is happening to be noticed, felt and expressed"

"The embodied therapeutic relationship is also a primary given"

"Relational problems are best understood as issues of embodiment"

22.

Which of the following statements does Nick Totton make? (select any that are correct)

"My embodied response happens in the overlapping transitional space between myself and the client, rather than exclusively inside either of us."

"What seemed corporal melted as breath into the wind."

"We need to let ourselves be reached into and changed by the gravitational pull of the client’s presence."

Julianne Appel-Opper
1. Julianne Appel-Opper quotes her colleague Shoshi Asheri. What does she quote?	Select 1 correct answer
a. “Beside the physical resonances, we also react with physical impulses such as tiny movements.”
b. We receive (messages) as physical resonances and sensations, what Shoshi Asheri beautifully terms as “felt participation”.
c. Shoshi Asheri describes these as “physical resonances and sensations”

2. Julianne Appel-Opper suggests	Tick any that apply
a. The body can also store imprints of trauma, which restrict how new experiences are managed.
b. Clients broadcast their pre-verbal implicit relational knowledge.
c. The traumatic body-to-body-communication can be hypo- and hyperarousal.

Asaf Rolef Ben-Shahar
1. Asaf Rolef Ben-Shahar	Select 1 correct answer
a. Asks the interviewer to turn her chair
b. Asks the interviewer to move his legs
c. Asks the interviewer to stand up

2. During the interview Asaf Rolef Ben-Shahar says that he is feeling	Tick any that apply
a. Vulnerable
b. Irritated
c. Tearful

Bill Cornell
1. Bill Cornell sought the work of theorizts who wrote systematically about the body, and found three people. Who were they?	Select 1 correct answer
a. Christopher Bollas, Gerda Boyesen and David Boadella
b. Donald Winnicott, Jim Kepner and Donald Stern
c. Donald Winnicott, Christopher Bollas and James McLaughlin

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