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Studies in Jungian Psychology by Jungian Analysts #30
Touching: Body Therapy and Depth Psychology
Book by McNeely, Deldon Anne
- GenresPsychology
128 pages, Paperback
First published November 1, 1987
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July 13, 2022
This ~100 page book opens with a well-written history of Jungian analysis and summaries of contributing practitioners to body therapy. There are a good number of interesting ideas in this section. A culture's disposition towards the body creates huge impacts for society. Our bodies carry our memories, and there are physical modes of reexperiencing and releasing that "energy." Cartesian dichotomy limits our ability to integrate the symbolic and the material.
When it actually begins to deal with body therapy, the professional jargon makes certain passages nearly impossible to read. The occasional burst of writing retains interest or demonstrates good argumentation. However, this is not a book for learning about why touching may be healing or even recommending modalities for delivering a touch-based therapy. This is a theoretical/analytic text about how to situate body therapy within Jungian analysis. It assumes the reader already has working knowledge of both modes and interrogates a whole host of esteemed opinions about what is appropriate within "the analytic frame" and what questions should a therapist ask of themselves when establishing an intervention. The two case studies are excellent, but that's about it. Its conclusions are necessary and need to be widely spread, but the book as a whole is unbearably specialized and irrelevant to almost everyone who is not already a Jungian analyst.
When it actually begins to deal with body therapy, the professional jargon makes certain passages nearly impossible to read. The occasional burst of writing retains interest or demonstrates good argumentation. However, this is not a book for learning about why touching may be healing or even recommending modalities for delivering a touch-based therapy. This is a theoretical/analytic text about how to situate body therapy within Jungian analysis. It assumes the reader already has working knowledge of both modes and interrogates a whole host of esteemed opinions about what is appropriate within "the analytic frame" and what questions should a therapist ask of themselves when establishing an intervention. The two case studies are excellent, but that's about it. Its conclusions are necessary and need to be widely spread, but the book as a whole is unbearably specialized and irrelevant to almost everyone who is not already a Jungian analyst.
September 30, 2020
a mini module of body therapy.
how body therapy is introduced with caution and the principle to be followed.
how dance therapy was helpful for the patients.
Her patients' experiences and not much to take for...
a dull book
Actually books starts from the 59th page.
how body therapy is introduced with caution and the principle to be followed.
how dance therapy was helpful for the patients.
Her patients' experiences and not much to take for...
a dull book
Actually books starts from the 59th page.
April 25, 2011
new territory in my search for healing
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