1st Edition

Touch Attachment and the Body

By Kate White Copyright 2004
    102 Pages
    by Routledge

    102 Pages
    by Routledge

    This book compiles the papers presented at John Bowlby Memorial Conference 2003, exploring the complex and interwoven themes of touch, attachment and the body and their emergence in clinical work. It offers a new theory of the body, and of the role of the body in psychoanalytical practice.

    Foreword -- Attachment theory and The John Bowlby Memorial Lecture: a short history -- Introduction to the John Bowlby Memorial Conference 2003 -- Intimate contact from birth -- The John Bowlby Memorial Lecture 2003 The body in clinical practice -- The John Bowlby Memorial Lecture 2003 The body in clinical practice -- Touch and the impact of trauma in therapeutic relationships with adults -- The neurobiology of attachment, touch and the body in early development -- Bowlby Memorial Conference 2003 -- Touch: attachment and the body -- Touch: Attachment and the body A review of CAPP’s Tenth Bowlby Memorial Conference 2003 -- Introduction to The Centre for Attachment-based Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy

    Biography

    White, Kate