The Body in Psychotherapy

Review

‘... represents a walk around a very larger and partly charted territory. Indeed, even for someone like me, who regards this subject as both intriguing and of major importance, arriving at any part of the book must be rather like a landing on the moon: very interesting to be there but with a need to stand well back to get the whole thing into perspective.
I do not say this disparagingly. The book is a bold and thorough attempt to relocate the mind, and with it various psychotherapies, within the flesh and bones of the body, which is a notion to which people in a wide range of therapeutic fields pay lip-service, but whose concepts are curiously elusive. Indeed, theory, practice, language, perspectives and even contact are still miles apart in the fields represented.
The chapters are mostly short, clear and, for the most part, accompanied by 10–30 references ... the emphasis of each chapter varies considerably, but this contributes to the diversity and interest of the book.
It is easy for psychiatrists and psychologists to ignore the topics represented in this book, and many will continue to do so, but it constitutes a worthwhile attempt to make sense, interestingly, critically, thoughtfully and responsibly, of an area which is burgeoning and perhaps even approaching meltdown in terms of alternative therapies and alternative syndromes. It deserves attention.’
Derek Steinberg, Consultant Psychiatrist
British Journal of Psychiatry