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THE ART and SCIENCE of SOMATIC PRAXIS INCORPORATING US ASSOCIATION for BODY PSYCHOTHERAPY JOURNAL Volume Thirteen ● Number One ● Spring 2014 THE ART AND SCIENCE OF SOMATIC PRAXIS INCORPORATING US ASSOCIATION FOR BODY PSYCHOTHERAPY JOURNAL volume thirteen ● number one ● spring 2014 E UROPEAN EABP A SSOCIATION FOR B ODY- P SYCHOTHERAPY International Body Psychotherapy Journal USA; Elizabeth Marshall, Germany; Susan McConnell, USA; The Art and Science of Somatic Praxis Marjorie Rand, PhD, USA; Professor Frank Röhricht, UK; Homayoun Shahri, PhD, USA; Asaf Rolef Ben-Shahar, PhD, (formerly US Association for Body Psychotherapy Journal) THE ART AND SCIENCE OF SOMATIC PRAXIS Israel; Kathrin Stauffer, PhD, UK; Laura Steckler, PhD, UK; Sharon Stopforth, Canada; Maurizio Stupiggia, Italy; Jennifer INCORPORATING US ASSOCIATION FOR BODY PSYCHOTHERAPY JOURNAL The International Body Psychotherapy Journal (IBPJ) is Tantia, PhD USA; Halko Weiss, PhD, Germany; Courtenay volume thirteen ● number one ● spring 2014 a peer-reviewed, online journal, published twice a year in Young, UK. spring and fall. It is a collaborative publication of the United States Association for Body Psychotherapy (USABP) and the Abstract Translators: Albanian, Enver Cesko; French, Marcel European Association for Body Psychotherapy (EABP). It is DuClos; German, Elizabeth Marshall; Greek, Eleni Stavroulaki; a continuation of the USABP Journal the first ten volumes of Hebrew, Rachel Shalit; Italian, Fabio Carbonari; Portuguese which can be ordered through the website (Brazil) Ronaldo Destri de Moura; Russian, Evgeniya Soboleva; http://www.ibpj.org/subscribe.php. Serbian, Maja Lekic; Spanish, David Trotzig. The Journal’s mission is to support, promote and stimulate TABLE OF CONTENTS the exchange of ideas, scholarship and research within the USABP Board of Directors field of body psychotherapy as well as to encourage an President: Beth Haessig, Psy.D interdisciplinary exchange with related fields of clinical Vice President: Dan Mingle, MBA 04 Editorial theory and practice through ongoing discussion. Secretary: Christine Gindi, MDiv, MA Jacqueline A. Carleton, PhD Treasurer: Alex Diaz, PhD Editor in Chief: Jacqueline A. Carleton, PhD Membership: Andrea Caplan, BA, LMT 08 Self-Reflections on Art and Psychotherapy [email protected] Research: Jennifer Frank Tantia, PhD, BC-DMT Managing Editor: Jill van der Aa THE ART AND SCIENCE OF SOMATIC PRAXIS Journal Editor: Jacqueline A. Carleton, PhD Terry Marks-Tarlow, PhD THE ART AND SCIENCE OF SOMATIC PRAXIS [email protected] Magazine Editor: Nancy Eichhorn, MA, MEd Associate Editor: Diane Cai 10 Two Poems [email protected] EABP Board of Directors German Editorial Committee: Elizabeth Marshall, President: Lidy Evertsen Jeanne Denney, BS, MA [email protected] General Secretary/Vice-President: Jill van der Aa Treasurer: Eva Wagner-Margetich ARTICLES Production Team EAP Representatives: Thomas Riepenhausen, Elfriede Design/Layout: Ronald Jeans Kastenberger, MD Cover Design: Diana Houghton Whiting Science & Research Committee: Herbert Grassmann, PhD 03 Shadows in the History of Body Psychotherapy: Part I Cover illustration: Terry Marks Tarlow Ethics Committee Representatives: Ilse Schmidt Courtenay Young with Gill Westland Editorial Intern: Joshua David Wright Zimmermann, Michael Heller, PhD COUNCIL Representative: Elfriede Kastenberger, MD 31 The Endo Self: A Self Model for Body-Oriented Psychotherapy? Editorial committee: FORUM Representative: Stefan Bischof Nancy Eichhorn, PhD; Lidy Evertsen; Michel Heller, PhD; Will Davis Asaf Rolef Ben Shahar, PhD; Katy Swafford, PhD; Jennifer Correspondence Addresses Tantia, PhD. Editor: [email protected] 52 Toward an Integrative Model for Developmental Trauma German Editorial committee: The IBPJ is available free online. Homayoun Shahri, Ph.D., M.A. Christina Bader-Johansson, Thomas Harms, Print subscriptions: www.eabp.org/ibpj-subscribe.php Printed single issue Members 17.50, Non-members 20 International Advisory Board: 67 Awareness and Mindfulness in Consciousness-Centred Body Psychotherapy Yearly subscription: Members 30, Non-members 35 Christian Gottwald, MD Regina Axt, MD, Netherlands; Jeff Barlow, BA, MEd, Two-year subscription: Members 55.00, Non-members 60. Australia; Prof. Joachim Bauer, MD, Germany; Marianne Payment through bank transfer, American Express or PayPal. Bentzen, Denmark; Malcolm Brown, PhD, Switzerland; Changes of address: [email protected] 80 Helping the Body Grieve: A Body Psychotherapy Approach to Supporting the Fabio Carbonari, Italy; Will Davis, France; George Downing, Advertising: [email protected] Creation of Continuing Bonds After a Death Loss INTERNATIONAL BODY PSYCHOTHERAPY JOURNAL PSYCHOTHERAPY BODY INTERNATIONAL PhD, France; Lidy Evertsen, Netherlands; Ulfried Geuter, JOURNAL PSYCHOTHERAPY BODY INTERNATIONAL PhD, Germany; Stanley Keleman, USA; Rubens Kignel, Translation The online Journal is published in the English Dyana Reisen, MA, CT Brazil; Alice Ladas, EdD, USA; Peter Levine, PhD, USA; language. Abstracts of articles are to be found on the IBPJ Clorinda Lubrano, Greece; Lisbeth Marcher, Denmark; Gustl website in Albanian, French, German, Greek, Hebrew, Italian, 95 The Impact of Body Awareness on Subjective Wellbeing: Marlock, Dipl. Päd., Germany; Professor Frank Röhricht, UK; Portuguese, Russian, Serbian and Spanish. The Role of Mindfulness Maurizio Stupiggia, Italy; Manfred Thielen, Dr.phil. DipPsych, http://www.ibpj.org/archive.php Germany; Joop Valstar, Netherlands; Halko Weiss, PhD, If an article originally written in another language has been Olga Brani, Kate Hefferon, Tim Lomas, Itai Ivtzan, Joan Painter Germany; Courtenay Young, UK. accepted for publication in English, the full article may also be found in the original language. 108 The Enteric Nervous System and Body Psychotherapy: Cultivating a Peer Review Board: Relationship with the Gut Brain Christina Bader, Switzerland; Luisa Barbato, Italy; Sasa NB The accuracy or premises of articles printed does not Bogdanovic, Serbia; Christine Caldwell, PhD, USA; Fabio necessarily represent the official beliefs of the USABP, the Stephanie Pollock, MA Carbonari, Italy; Fanny Chalfin, USA/France; Michael EABP or their respective Boards of Directors. Changaris, USA; Will Davis, France/USA; Marcel Duclos, USA; Nancy Eichhorn, PhD USA; Ruella Frank, USA; ISSN 2169-4745 Printing, ISSN 2168-1279 Online Mary Giuffra, USA; Gary Glickman, USA; Christian Copyright © 2012 USABP/EABP. All rights reserved. No Gottwald, Germany; Herbert Grassmann, PhD, Germany; part of this journal may be reproduced or transmitted in any Elliot Greene, USA; Margit Grossmann, Germany; Claire form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including Haiman, USA; Michel Heller, Switzerland; Sibylle Huerta photocopying, recording, or by any information storage and Krefft, Germany; Lawrence E. Hedges, USA; Inge Joachim, retrieval system, without written permission of the publishers. Germany; Rubens Kignel, Brazil; Ljiljana Klisic, Ph.D., Publishers: USABP [email protected] www.usabp.org Serbia; René Kostka, Switzerland; Rae Johnson, PhD, USA; EABP [email protected] www.eabp.org Edmund Knighton, PhD, USA; Daniel Lewis, USA; Mark IBPJ www.ibpj.org Ludwig, USA; Narelle McKenzie, Australia; Linda Marks, 2 3 Editorial enlarge our own creative capacities both in and outside of our work. Art, music, poetry, drama — volume 13 · number 1 · spring 2014 these must be reflected in the selves we bring to our consulting rooms, our research endeavors, and the rest of our lives. Whether we are consumers or producers, participants or spectators, we must be involved. We might in fact think of our work as embodying the art of science. The last two years, as we completed the transition from the USABPJ to the IBPJ, have indeed At our request, body psychotherapist Jeanne Denney, an early contributor to the USABPJ been a time of tremendous movement, change, and transformation. And more changes are on (in the Archives on the IBPJ website, see volume 7#8, 2008), has contributed two poems to the way, in this issue and the next. The USABPJ was basically a two-person operation; I edited it this issue, one from the point of view of herself as patient and the other from the vantage point and Robyn Burns produced it. Today, we have peer reviewers and advisors from virtually every of that same person now as therapist. Ms. Denney exemplifies the union of art and science in continent, along with an editorial committee that assists the editor on an ongoing basis as issues her study of the effects of compassionate presence on hospice patients and the hospice workers arise. We have instituted a system of tracking peer reviews and reviewers (the work of Associate who offer this compassionate presence, utilizing measures of heart rate variability supplemented Editor Diane Cai, recently assisted by Joshua Wright). We have set up a working system that by interviews with caregivers and family members. She brings a background in engineering, flows quite well, but hope that soon the enormous peer-reviewing and proofreading work now childbirth coaching, and body psychotherapy training to her work. And, she writes poems. done manually will be taken over by appropriate programs. Courtney Young, past President of EABP, and Gill Westland, Director of the Cambridge Body Psychotherapy Center, in “Shadows in the History of Body Psychotherapy: Part I”, take We have initiated our own website, www.ibpj.org. Abstracts of articles are posted on THE ART AND SCIENCE OF SOMATIC PRAXIS THE ART AND SCIENCE OF SOMATIC PRAXIS the IBPJ website in as many languages as we can find translators for. We have a
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