THE HANDBOOK OF BODY-PSYCHOTHERAPY
Edited by Halko Weiss, Gustl Marlock, & Courtenay Young
This inspiring, encyclopaedic book has already been published in German as Handbuch der
Körperpsychotherapie (Schattauer, 2006,) Schattauer is one of the leading publishers of
professional academic, medical, and psychological books. It has been amazingly well-reviewed and
has proved very popular: going into a second printing.
It is designed to be, quite simply, the definitive book about Body-Psychotherapy. Several
other very good books about Body-Psychotherapy have appeared recently, however this book tries
to define and represent the whole field; the embodiment of Body-Psychotherapy theory, knowledge
and practice to date. The list of authors reads like Who’s Who, the contents are What’s What, in
Body-Psychotherapy.
This is an international in-depth perspective on what is emerging as a major, significant and
very exciting branch of the profession of psychotherapy, even though Body-Psychotherapy is not so
well-known as the other mainstream branches: psychodynamic, cognitive-behavioural, systemic or
humanistic. Body-Psychotherapy itself actually predates Freud; it is also the essential connection
between psychotherapy and psychosomatics, neuroscience, psychophysiology, dance and
movement therapies, and the whole wide range of various body therapies.
This handbook, a work of major reference, is designed to become a must for every student in
Body-Psychotherapy, a standard text for all Somatic Psychology university courses in the USA, and
an essential read for most practicing psychotherapists from whatever discipline or orientation. We
invite you to examine here the contents and chapter titles (in English). We do not apologize for the
length (the German edition had 992 pages, and 99 chapters): as we wanted it to be comprehensive.
The final English-American edition may have a few differences.
As you can see, nearly all the major ‘players’ in the field of Body-Psychotherapy have
contributed. Their original German, French, Spanish and Italian chapters are now being translated
for the English-American edition, hopefully coming out in 2010-2011, and the whole book is being
re-edited, prior to this publication.
Si, this is how you can help us. We are asking for financial contributions to help defray the
translation costs. Whilst the DGK and EABP have very kindly given some financial grants,
unfortunately this is not enough. So we are asking you to give contributions (in multiples) of €100
or £90 or $150 – as a form of advance sale – and, in return, we will send you one copy of the
English-American edition, as soon as it is published, for each multiple.
Alternatively, you can just give us a grant – whatever you feel you would like to contribute:
maybe €500, £250, or $1000, or any other (even a smaller) amount. Your name would be listed in
the book as one of the contributors. For the sake of transparency, these grant contributions would be
handled by EABP, and then passed on to the translators directly. Proper accounts will be presented
to the EABP.
You could also persuade your institution or training school to take out an advert in the book,
or encourage them to order advance copies (as above).
Please contact us, especially if you have an inside line into any mainstream US or UK
publisher. We are also open to negotiating translation rights into other languages, so we would be
interested in contacting foreign-language publishers as well.
Finally, please tell your friends and colleagues about this project.
Thank You
HANDBOOK OF BODY-PSYCHOTHERAPY: CURRENT TABLE OF CONTENTS
Acknowledgements
Foreword 1: Bessel van der Kolk (Boston, MA, USA)
Preface: The Field of Body-Psychotherapy: Gustl Marlock (Frankfurt, Germany) and Halko Weiss (Boulder, CO,
USA)
SECTION I: Historical Perspectives
Introduction: Gustl Marlock and Halko Weiss
The History of Body-Psychotherapy: Ulfried Geuter (Berlin, Germany)
The Influence of Elsa Gindler: Judyth Weaver (Mill Valley, CA, USA)
On the Work of Wilhelm Reich: Wolf Büntig (Munich, Germany)
The Norwegian Tradition of Body Psychotherapy - A Golden Age in Oslo: Michael Coster Heller
(Lausanne,
Switzerland)
Body Psychotherapy as a Major Tradition of Psychodynamic Psychotherapy: Gustl Marlock (Frankfurt,
Germany)
The Genealogy of Body Psychotherapy: Heike Langfeld and Dagmar Rellensmann, Germany; with Ulfried Geuter,
Gustl Marlock and Halko Weiss. Graphics: Hans-Jürgen Buch, Germany
a) Introduction; b) The Roots of Body Psychotherapy; c) Body Therapy; d) The Influence of
Psychoanalysis; e) Reichian Traditions; f) Non-Reichian Traditions; g) Humanistic Psychology; h) Dance
Therapy
SECTION II: Basic Perspectives of Body-Psychotherapy
Introduction: Gustl Marlock and Halko Weiss
The Primacy of Experiential Traditions in Body-Psychotherapy: Don Hanlon Johnson (San Francisco, CA, USA)
The Informed Body. "Embodied and Embedded”: Hilarion Petzold (Amsterdam, Holland)
Neurobiological Perspectives on Body Psychotherapy: Christian Gottwald (Munich, Germany)
Body Psychotherapy as Reanimation of the Self: Gustl Marlock (Frankfurt, Germany)
Energy Concepts in Body-Psychotherapy: Andreas Wehowsky (Jaderberg, Germany):
The Organisation of Experience: A Systems Perspective on the Relation of Body Psychotherapies to the Wider
Field of Psychotherapy: Greg Johanson (Chicago, IL, USA):
SECTION III: Psyche and Soma
Introduction: Gustl Marlock and Halko Weiss
Somasemantics: Meanings of the Body: David Boadella (Zurich, Switzerland)
The Neurotic Character Structure and the Conscious Ego: Alexander Lowen (New Canaan, CT , USA)
The Embodied Unconscious: Ian Grand (San Francisco, CA, USA)
The Body's Unconscious and Neuroscience: Marilyn Morgan (Napier, New Zealand):
Maturation of the Somatic Self: Stanley Keleman (Berkeley, CA, USA)
"Body Schema", "Body Image" and "Body Experience" Frank Roehricht (London, England)
The Bodily "Felt Sense" as a Ground for Body-Psychotherapies: Eugene Gendlin and Marion Hendricks (Chicago,
USA)
The Body and the Truth: Halko Weiss (Boulder, CO, USA) and Michael Harrer (Innsbruck, Austria)
The Self and the Body: Günther Heisterkamp (Ratingen, Germany)
Body, Culture and Body-Oriented Psychotherapies: Ian Grand (San Francisco, CA, USA)
SECTION IV: Somatic Dimensions of Developmental Psychology
Introduction: Gustl Marlock and Halko Weiss
Shapes of Experience. Neuroscience, Developmental Psychology and Somatic Character Formation: Marianne
Bentzen (Copenhagen, Denmark)
Overview of the Variations of Character "Types". A Graphic Chart: Andreas Sartory (Vienna, Austria), with Gustl
Marlock and Halko Weiss
Early Affect Exchange and the Body: George Downing (Paris, France)
Affect-Motor Schemata: Andreas Wehowsky (Jaderberg, Germany)
The Body and Prenatal Psychology: Ludwig Janus (Heidelberg, Germany)
Bodily Reenactment of Prenatal and Birth Issues: Marjorie Rand (Los Angeles, CA, USA)
Patterns and Plasticity - Utilizing Early Motor Development As a Tool for Therapeutic Change: Susan Aposhyan
(Boulder, CO, USA)
Attachment Theory and Body Psychotherapy: John May (St. Louis, MO, USA) and Mark Ludwig
(Oakland,
CA, USA)
Autonomy Development from a Body-Psychotherapy Perspective: Ute Braeuer (Frankfurt, Germany)
SECTION V: Fundamentals of Methodology
Introduction: Gustl Marlock and Halko Weiss
Sensory Self-Reflexivity - On the Working Mode of Body Psychotherapy: Gustl Marlock (Frankfurt, Germany)
Consciousness, Awareness, Mindfulness: Halko Weiss (Boulder, CO, USA)
Bodily Expression and Experience in Psychotherapy: Ron Kurtz (Ashland, OR, USA)
The Experiencing Body: Halko Weiss (Boulder, CO, USA)
Moving - Sensing - Understanding - Meaning: Symbolizing in Concentrative Movement Therapy:
Helmuth
Stolze (Munich, Germany)
The Externalized Realization of the Unconscious and the Corrective Experience: Albert Pesso (Franklin, NH,
USA):
Movement As and In Psychotherapy: Christine Caldwell (Boulder, CO, USA)
On Vitality: Michael Randolph (Toulouse, France)
SECTION VI: The Therapeutic Relationship in Body Psychotherapy
Introduction: Gustl Marlock and Halko Weiss
Entering the Relational Field in Body-Psychotherapy: Bill Cornell (Philadelphia, PA, USA)
Enhancing the Immediacy and Intimacy of the Therapeutic Relationship through the Somatic Dimension:
Richard Heckler (San Francisco, CA, USA) & Greg Johanson (Chicago, IL, USA)
Therapeutic Touch as a Maturation-Enhancing Intervention: Thomas Busch (Berlin, Germany)
The Somatics of Touch: Lisbeth Marcher, Eric Jarlnaess and Christine Münster (all Copenhagen, Denmark)
SECTION VII: Clinical Aspects of the Therapeutic Process
Introduction: Gustl Marlock and Halko Weiss
The Diagnostic Relevance of Body -Traits and -Processes in Somatic Psychotherapy: Frank Roehricht (London,
England)
The Role of the Body for Emotional and Psychic Defense Mechanisms. Body-Psychotherapy and the Theory of
Emotion: Ulfried Geuter (Berlin, Germany) & Norbert Schrauth (Pforzheim, Germany)
On the Variety of Body-Oriented Interventions: Ilse Schmidt-Zimmermann (Frankfurt, Germany)
Body-Psychotherapy and Levels of Personality Structure: Joachim & Dorothea Galuska (Bad Kissingen, Germany)
On Regression: Peter Geissler (Vienna, Austria)
The Unfolding of Libidinous Forces in Neo-Reichian Body Psychotherapy: Ebba Boyesen (Elmshorn, Germany)
and Peter Freudl (Hamburg, Germany)
Dreams and the Body: Stanley Keleman (Berkeley, CA, USA)
The Risks of Body-Psychotherapy: Courtenay Young (Edinburgh, Scotland)
Empirical Research in Body-Psychotherapy: Thomas Loew & Karin Tritt (Regensburg, Germany)
SECTION VIII: Functional Perspectives of Body Psychotherapy
Introduction: Gustl Marlock and Halko Weiss
Functionalism: Luciano Rispoli (Naples, Italy)
The Breathing Movement: Markus Fusser (Karlsruhe, Germany)
Body-Psychotherapy and the Vegetative Nervous System: Norbert Schrauth (Pforzheim, Germany)
Heart, Heart Feelings and Heart Symptoms: Courtenay Young (Edinburgh, Scotland)
Visual Contact, Facing and Expression: Narelle McKenzie (Adelaide, Australia) & John May (St. Louis, MO, USA)
Segmental Holding Patterns of the Body-Mind: Jack Rosenberg & Beverly Kitaen-Morse (Los Angeles, CA, USA)
"Grounding" in Psychotherapy and in Everyday Life: Thomas Ehrensperger (Basel, Switzerland) and Angela
Klopstech (New York, NY, USA)
Horizontal Grounding: Angela Belz-Knöferl (Nuremberg, Germany) and Malcolm Brown (Atlanta, GA, USA)
Entering the Erotic Field: Sexuality in Body-Centered Psychotherapy: Bill Cornell (Philadelphia, PA, USA)
SECTION IX: Body Psychotherapeutic Treatment of Specific Disorders
Introduction: Gustl Marlock and Halko Weiss
Body-Psychotherapy and Severe Forms of Psychiatric Disorders: Frank Roehricht (London, England)
Body-Psychotherapy and Psychosis: Guy Tonnela (Issus, France)
Body-Psychotherapeutic Treatment of Patients with Low Levels of Personality Structure: Hans-Joachim Maaz
(Halle, Germany)
Body-Psychotherapy with the Narcissistic Personality Disorder: Manfred Thielen (Berlin, Germany)
Body-Psychotherapy - a Royal Road for the Psychosomatically Ill: Hans Becker (Heidelberg, Germany)
The Oral Depression: Guy Tonella (Issus, France)
Sensorimotor Processing for Trauma Recovery: Pat Odgen, Kekuni Minton (Boulder, CO, USA)
SECTION X: Areas of Application
Introduction: Gustl Marlock and Halko Weiss
Therapeutic Work with "Crying Babies": Carlton Terry (Denver, CO, USA)
Back to the Bodily Senses. Body-Psychotherapy with Children: Nicole Gäbler (Berlin, Germany)
Body Process and the Enigmatic "Tween": Felicia Carroll (Santa Barbara, CA, USA)
A Somatic Approach to Couples Therapy: Rob Fisher (San Francisco, CA, USA)
Emotional First Aid: Eva Reich (Hancock, ME, USA) & Judyth Weaver (Mill Valley, CA, USA)
Group Processes in Body-Psychotherapy: Michael Soth (London, England)
Orgone Medicine: Heike Buhl (Berlin, Germany)
SECTION XI: Case Studies
Introduction: Gustl Marlock & Halko Weiss
Vegetotherapy with Psychosmatic Symptoms Xavier Serrano (Valencia, Spain)
A Schizoid Process: Siegmar Gerken (Mendocino, CA, USA)
An Empty Voice in an Empty Self: Tilman Moser (Freiburg, Germany)
Subsymbolic Processing with an Alexithymic Client: John May (St. Louis, MO, USA)
SECTION XII: Interfaces with Other Modalities
Introduction: Gustl Marlock & Halko Weiss
Dance Therapy: Sabine Trautmann-Voigt (Bonn, Germany)
The Importance of the Body in Gestalt Therapy: Wiltrud Kogan (San Francisco, USA)
Body Therapy and the Psyche: Ilana Rubenfeld (Ashland, OR, USA) and Camilla Griggers (Santa Monica, CA, USA)
Cognitive-Behavioral Therapists Discover the Body: Serge K.D. Sulz (Munich, Germany)
The Positive Management of the Body: Nossrat Peseschkian (New Dehli, India; Peking, China; Wiesbaden,
Germany)
SEGMENT XIII: Existential Dimensions of Body-Psychotherapy
Introduction: Gustl Marlock & Halko Weiss
The Dimension of Beingness in Body-Psychotherapy: Wolf Büntig (Munich, Germany)
The Existential Dimension of the Great Character Themes: Halko Weiss (Boulder, CO, USA)
Epilogue: Gustl Marlock and Halko Weiss:
References
Index
Addendum
Many of these chapters exist in the already published German edition; many of them were written
originally in English, and only need a little updating or editing for the new edition. The other
chapters, originally in German, French, Italian, Spanish etc., are currently being translated into
English. It is this translation work that is really costing the money and why we need some more
financial help at this point. These chapters are then being given a proper easy-to-read Englishlanguage edit. There are also several new chapters to give the book slightly more of an EnglishAmerican slant, or a more transatlantic perspective, and also to update it slightly. The publisher may
also want to have some input, and might even want to publish in 2 volumes. So the above chapter
list might not be exactly what appears in the final English-American edition.
However, we hope that you will agree with us that this is a very worthy project, and would
want to assist us in some way towards its completion. Please contact us and let us know how you
might assist us in this project:
Halko Weiss: HalkoHD@aol.com
Gustl Marlock: gmarlock@mac.com
Courtenay Young: courtenay@courtenay-young.com