The Embodied Analyst

2015 Gradiva Award Winner

The Embodied Analyst brings together the history of embodied analysis found in the work of Freud and Reich and contemporary relational analysis, particularly as influenced by infant research. By integrating the ¿old¿ embodied and the ¿new¿ relational traditions, the book contributes to a new clinical perspective focusing on form and process rather than content and structure ¿ the ¿how¿, rather than the ¿what¿ and the ¿why¿. This perspective is characterised by a focus on movement, emotional interaction and the therapists own bodily experience in the analytic encounter.

Jon Sletvold presents a user-friendly approach to embodied experience, providing the history, theory, training and practice of embodied experience and expression as a way of expanding clinical attention. Starting with a Spinozan view of the embodied mind, Part One: History of Embodied Psychoanalysis presents an overview of the hist