Like everybody else, we therapists are afraid to attune ourselves to our own body sensations because we're afraid of losing control of ourselves-that we'll get too angry or become sexual. -
Divided bodies: suggested reading
Bowlby John Attachment and loss (many editions)
Caldwell Christine 1996 Getting Our Bodies Back: Recovery, Healing, and Transformation through Body-Centered Psychotherapy Boston and London: Shambhala
Caldwell Christine, Ed. 1997 Getting in Touch: The Guide to New Body-Centered Therapies Wheaton: Quest Books
- Founded the Somatic Psychology Department at Naropa Institute in Boulder in 1984.
Gilligan, Carol. The Birth of Pleasure. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2002.
- Revolutionary introduction to psychological attachment and dissociation. The most important book on this list. (EE)
Griffin, Susan. Woman and Nature: The Roaring Inside Her. New York: Harper and Row, 1978.
- On anti-embodiment motives and results. (EE)
Goldstein K 1963 The organism, 2nd ed Beacon Press
Hilgard E 1977 Divided consciousness: multiple controls in human thought and action John Wiley & Sons
Perls F, R Hefferline, P Goodman 1965 Gestalt psychology: excitement and growth in the human personality Dell
Rich Adrienne, Of Woman Born: Motherhood as Experience and Institution New York: W.W. Norton & Co. 1976.
- In terms of embodiment I think this is the most important book of feminist theory to emerge from the Second Wave. How to distinguish between experience and construct if not through the body. The book ends with a call for women to reject the culture and politics of abstraction, to "think through the body to connect what has been so hardly used; our highly developed tactile sense; our genius for close observation; our complicated, pain-enduring, multipleasured physicality. We need to imagine a world in which every woman is the presiding genius of her own body." The ultimate result, she claims, will be the transformation of thought itself. (LW)
Shepard Paul 1982/1999 "Nature and madness" in Ecopsychology, T Roszak, M Gomes, A Kanner eds, 21-40 Sierra Club Books
van der Kolk Bessel The body keeps the score: memory and the psychobiology of post traumatic stress
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Harpers May
2005, has a number of stories on American religious fundamentalism.