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The Emergence of Somatic Psychology and Bodymind Therapy by B. Barratt

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By B. Barratt

Somatic psychology and bodymind treatment (the simultaneous learn of the brain and body) are tough contemporary understandings of the psyche, of what it ability to be human and the way to heal human soreness. This publication discusses those parts of research.

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3 Illustrations of Bodymind Therapy We stated in Chapter 1 that somatic psychology is the psychology of the body (as distinct from a psychology about the body, or an enterprise that directs its activities at the body). The prepositional distinction is perhaps profoundly significant, and points to a radical shift in orientation. This shift from about the body or at the body to of the body heralds a difference in the spatiotemporal or ontological relations, as well as the ethical underpinnings, that are engaged within the discipline of psychology — the discipline that is responsible for inquiring upon and healing the human psyche or soul.

But we do not know quite what to do with this knowledge. On a metaphysical and scientific level, we now know that nothing is really separate and autonomous, but that all the entities and events of the universe are dynamically interdependent — through the past and into the future. On an experimental and philosophical level, we know that the objects of our knowledge transform themselves in response to the operations of knowing. On a sociocultural and political level, we know that the wealth of the rich depends on the labors of the poor; the dominance of the one depends on the exploitation or erasure of the other, whether the “other” is a matter of class, color, gender, sexuality, age, or belief.

He was two years older, and used to tease me affectionately almost all the time. What just came to mind was one night when I was eleven years old. I awoke to find him standing over my bed. He had pulled down the covers and was looking at my budding breasts … I don’t know, I can’t remember clearly, but I think he may have been naked. ” What is illustrated in this brief vignette is the way in which a simple act of attending to the messages of our embodiment can seem to release a memory into awareness.

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