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Kepner, James I.

Body process : working with the body in psychotherapy / James I. Kepner ; foreword by Joseph C. Zinker. - [New ed.] / with a new prologue by the author. - Cambridge, Mass. : Gestalt, c2001. - xxix, 223 p. ; 22 cm.

Originally published: New York : Gardner Press, ©1987. 28.20

Includes bibliographical references (p. 217-219) and index.

[Part 1: Basic principles] Self and embodiment -- The body and the disowned self -- Approaching the "person as a whole" -- Structure and process: the organization of body and self -- Resistance and body process -- The therapeutic use of touch. [Part 2: Body phenomena and the cycle of experience] Sensation and body process -- Figure formation and body process -- Mobilization and body process -- Action and body process -- Contact, final contact, and body process -- Withdrawal, assimilation, and body process -- Appendix: A comparison of Reichian and Gestalt therapies.

ISBN: 9780881632835: No price 088163283X

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Gestalt therapy.
Body image.
Mind and body.
Health and Wellbeing.
Psychotherapy
Psychology
Psychoanalytical theory (Freudian psychology)

LC Class. No.: / K47 2001

Dewey Class. No.: 616.89143