Resources

An Introduction to Body-Centered Psychotherapy:

• Caldwel Christine. Getting Our Bodies Back. Recovery, Healing, and Transformation through Body-Centered Psychotherapy. Shambala Publications, Boston Massachusetts. 1996.
• Getting in Touch. The Guide to New Body-Centered Therapies. The Theosophical Publishing House. Wheaton, IL. 1997.
• Hanlon, Don. Bone, Breath, and Gesture; Practices of Embodiment. North Atlantic Books, Berkeley, CA. 1995.
• Groundworks. Narratives of Embodiment. North Atlantic Books, Berkeley, CA. 1997.
• The Body in Psychotherapy. Inquiries in Somatic Psychotherapy. North Atlantic Books, Berkeley, CA. 1998.


Art /Dance as Therapy:

• 
Returning to Health: With Dance, Movement & Imagery - Paperback (Oct. 7, 2002) by Anna Halprin
• Dance as a Healing Art by Anna Halprin
• Moving Towards Life: Five Decades of Transformative Dance by Anna Halprin

• Art and Healing by Barbara Gamin
• 

Art as Medicine by Shaun McNiff 


• Body Stories: A Guide to Experiential Anatomy by Andrea Olsen 


• Dance and Other Expressive Art Therapies: When Words are Not Enough by Fran Levy (Editor) 


• Foundations of Expressive Arts Therapy by Stephen and Ellen Levine
• 

Poiesis: The Language of Psychology and the Speech of the Soul by Stephen K. Levine 


• The Expressive Body in Life, Art and Therapy by Daria Halprin

Feldenkrais:

• Awareness through Movement, Moshe Feldenkrais, Penguin, 1984
• Mindful Spontaneity; Returning to Natural Movement; Ruthy Alon, North Atlantic Books, 1996

Body Centered Therapies:

• Body-Centered Psychotherapy: The Hakomi Method: The Integrated Use of Mindfulness, Nonviolence and the Body; Ron Kurt

Trauma:

• Waking the Tiger; Healing Trauma; Peter Levine; North Atlantic Books, Berkeley, CA 1997.
• The Body Remembers: The Psychophysiology of Trauma and Trauma Treatment; Babette Rothschild
• Transforming Trauma: EMDR. The revolutionary new therapy for freeing the mind, clearing the body, and opening the heart. By Laurel Parnell


An Introduction to Movement Based Expressive Therapy:

For anyone walking the path of growth and transformation will benefit from this embodied, arts based approach. You will learn that your body has within it a powerful fountain of wisdom that just needs to be tapped.

• Halprin, Anna. Returning to Health with Dance, Movement and Imagery., Liferhythm Books, 2002
• Halprin, Daria.The Expressive Body in Life, Art and Therapy; Working with Movement, Metaphor and Meaning; Jessica Kingsley Publishers, 2003

Body-Mind Centering:

“Body-Mind Centering offers a way to deepen ourselves to the intuitive wisdom of the body and to nurture our innate capacity to heal through awareness and touch. Through it we can explore the very roots of our expression in movement and we come to see how our mind moves or is restricted within the body.” –Linda Hartley

• Sensing, Feeling and Action: The Experiential Anatomy of Body-Mind Centering. Northampton Massachusetts : Contact Editions, 1993.
• Wisdom of the Body Moving; An Introduction to Body-Mind Centering; Linda Hartley, North Atlantic Books, 1995.

Acupuncture/Chinese Medicine:

• All Sickness is Home Sickness, Diane Connelly. Center For Traditional Acupuncture, 1986.
• Dragon Rises, Red Bird Flies: Psychology & Chinese Medicine (Revised Edition) by Leon I. Hammer (Paperback - Jun 2005)
• Between Heaven and Earth: A Guide to Chinese Medicine, Harriet Beinfield, Efrem Korngold. 
The authors explicate the different view of life inherent in Chinese medicine by metaphorically comparing the Chinese doctor as a gardener to the Western physician as a mechanic.

Body-Mind Psychotherapy:

Body-Mind Psychotherapy offers a simple, user-friendly, and safe approach to integrating the body into therapy and psychological exploration. The techniques involved are consistent with research from neuroscience, psychological development, and traumatology. This book offers a path leading toward profound emotional healing.

• Aposhyan, Susan. Natural Intelligence; Body-Mind Integration and Human Development. Williams and Wilkins. 1999
• Body-Mind Psychotherapy; Principles, Techniques, and Practical Applications
• 
Dychtwald, Ken. Bodymind. New York: Pantheon Books, 1977.

Help and Healing:


• Full Catastrophe Living: Using the Wisdom of Your Body and Mind to Face Stress, Pain, and Illness. By Jon Kabat-Zinn.
• The Anxiety and Phobia Workbook, and Beyond Anxiety. By Edmund J. Bourne.
• Calming Your Anxious Mind. By Jeffrey Brantley.
• Undoing Depression: What Therapy Can’t Teach You and Medication Can’t Give You. By Richard O’Connor.
• Yoga for Depression. By Amy Weintraub.
• I Don’t Want to Talk About It: Overcoming the Secret Legacy of Male Depression. By Terrence Real.
• Eating Mindfully: How to End Mindless Eating and Enjoy a Balanced Relationship with Food. By Susan Albers.
• When Food is Love: Exploring the Relationship between Food and Intimacy. By Geneen Roth.
• The Artist’s Way. By Julia Cameron.

On Being a Therapist:

• Between Therapist and Client; The New Relationship. By Michael Kahn. Holt Paperbacks, 1997, NY, NY.
• The Gift of Therapy: An Open Letter to a new Generation of Therapists and Their Patients. Irvin Yalom, MD.
• Help for the Helper: Self-Care Strategies for Managing Burnout and Stress. Babette Rothschild. Norton and Co. 2006, NY, NY.