Primitive Bodily Communications in Psychotherapy
Edited by Raffaella Hilty
Friday 17 June 2022
Book Launch
- A FREE online event
- 18:30 – 19:45pm BST (1:30 – 2:45pm EDT)
Celebrating the publication of ‘Primitive Bodily Communications in Psychotherapy’, edited by Raffaella Hilty (Karnac Books, 2022)
SPEAKERS
Ruth Williams, Professor Brett Kahr, Mark Linington, Valerie Sinason PhD, Salvatore Martini, ,ABOUT THIS EVENT
18:30 Start – 19:45 End
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Join us online to celebrate the publication of ‘Primitive Bodily Communications in Psychotherapy’. Chaired by Ruth Williams, you will hear from the book’s editor, Raffaella Hilty, and from contributors who offer diverse psychoanalytic approaches in this significant and valuable edited collection.
How does the body communicate in psychotherapy?
Every psychotherapist will be familiar with what it means to experience the hatred and despair of their most vulnerable patients in the midst of a psychotherapy session. Most often these patients will manage to express their feelings verbally, but what about those who never developed the capacity to speak? Or those who are capable of talking, but carry a complex range of unprocessed embodied feelings that cannot be verbally expressed? Some patients must rely on another type of language in order to communicate their dissociative states of mind.
This book explores how the ‘talking cure’ can still work when words fail and the body ‘talks’.The contributors to this book explore the topic of primitive bodily communications in the context of intellectual disability, eating disorders and bodily neglect, focusing on the communicative aspect of bodily expressions within the therapeutic relationship.
In an event chaired by Ruth Williams, Jungian analyst, you will hear from the book’s editor, Raffaella Hilty, and from several contributors, who offer diverse psychoanalytic approaches in this significant and valuable edited collection.
Primitive Bodily Communications in Psychotherapy: Embodied Expressions of a Disembodied Psyche is published by Karnac Books, an imprint of Confer and Karnac Publishing.
Book discount:
Attendees of the book launch can redeem a 20% discount on the book, using the code: PBCP20 at karnacbooks.com. Click here to order the book. (Offer valid until 30th June 2022)
Praise for the book
“These essays show us the tensions, challenges and opportunities that occur when our clients use their bodies as a primary means of communicating their distress. These highly skilled psychotherapists give us a remarkable insight into how these complex communications can be received and understood in the consulting room.” Graeme Galton, Consultant Psychotherapist, Clinic for Dissociative Studies
“Despite Freud’s dictate that the ego is first and foremost a bodily ego, theories of the mind came to supplant a more holistic approach in psychotherapy and psychoanalysis … More recently, we’ve rediscovered that psyche and soma are indeed inseparable, and must be approached as such in order for treatment to succeed. Raffaella Hilty’s brilliant new collection makes this abundantly clear in crisp, compelling writing that is broad and timely in scope.“ Dr. Steven Kuchuck, author of The Relational Revolution in Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy and Past President, IARPP
Raffaella Hilty, M.A. (Phil), is an attachment-based psychoanalytic psychotherapist with The Bowlby Centre. She has worked as an Honorary Psychotherapist within the NHS for a number of years, and she now works in private practice in London.
Ruth Williams, is a Jungian Psychoanalyst, Integrative Psychotherapist, IAAP/BAPPS supervisor and author of C.G. Jung: The Basics (Routledge, 2019). To learn more about Ruth, visit: www.RuthWilliams.org.uk
