* BODYCENTERED PSYCHOTHERAPY READING LIST:

* FOR THOSE INTERESTED IN BODY CENTERED PSYCHOTHERAPY, HERE ARE SOME BASIC TITLES THAT WILL SERVE AS A FUNDAMENTAL INTRODUCTION:

Chopra, M.D., Deepak
Quantum Healing
Lowen, Alexander
The Language of the Body, Collier Books, 1958
Masterson, J.F.
The Search for the Real Self; Unmasking the Personality Disorders of or Age, The Free Press, New York, 1988
Miller, Alice
The Drama of the Gifted Child, Basic Books, 1994
For Your Own Good, Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, NY, 1983
Kaufman, Gershen
Shame, the Power of Caring, Schenkman books, Inc., Rochester, Vermont, 1980
Zornado, Joseph
Inventing the Child, Garland Publishing, NY, 2001


* FOR THOSE ENROLLED IN TRAINING AT THE CONNECTICUT CENTER, HERE IS A LIST OF THE REQUIRED READINGS:

Alpert, Stuart W.,

          What to do until Enlightment
Chopra, M.D., Deepak

          Quantum Healing

Fagan, Joan/Shepard, Irma

          Gestalt Therapy Now

Johnson, Stephen

          Character Styles, W.W. Norton & Co., 1994

          Characterological Transformation,W .W. Norton & Co., NewYork,     

          Humanizing the Narcissistic Style, W.W. Norton & Co., New York,

The Symbiotic Character, W.W. Norton & Co., New NY, 1991
Lee, Robert G./ Wheeler, Gordon
The Voice of Shame, Silence, and the Connection in Psychotherapy, Jossey-Bass, San Francisco, CA, 1996
Lopez, Alan
Back to Zero
 
The Persistence of Time
Lowen, Alexander
 
The Language of the Body, Collier Books, 1958

          

The Betrayal of the Body, Collier Books, NY, 1967
Depression in the Body, Coward, McCann, and Geoghegan, New York, 1971
Bio-Energetics, Coward, McCann, and Geoghegan, New York, 1975
Love, Sex, and Your Heart, MacMillian Publishing Company, New York,1988
Pleasure, Cancer Books Inc., New York, 1984
Narcissism Denial of the True Self, Collier Books, NY, 1985
Masterson, J.F.
Treatment of the Borderline Disorders: An Integrated Developmental Approach, Brunner/Mazel, New York, 1981
The Search for the Real Self; Unmasking the Personality Disorders of or Age, The Free Press, New York, 1988
The Personality Disorders, Zeig, Tucker & Co., Phoenix, 2000
Miller, Alice
The Drama of the Gifted Child, Basic Books, 1994
For Your Own Good, Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, NY, 1983
The Endless Enigma
Moore, Thomas
Care of the Soul, Harper Co., 1991
Pelletier, K.
Mind as Healer, Mind as Slayer, 1977
Perls, M.D, Ph.D., Fredreick/Hefferline, Ph.D., Ralph F./Goodman, Ph.D., Paul
Gestalt Therapy, Dell Publishing, New York, 1951
Perls Frederick S.
Gestalt Therapy Verbatim, The Center for Gestalt Development, Inc., Highland, NY,1988
Gestalt therapy Verbatim, Bantam Books,1969
Perls, Fritz
Gestalt Approach, Science and Behavior Books
Polster, Irving
A Population of Selves, A Therapeutic Exploration of Personal Divinity, Jossey-Bass, San Francisco, CA, 1995
Polster, Irving and Miriam
Gestalt Therapy Intergrated, Brunner & Mazel, New York, 1973
Reich, Wilhelm
Character Analysis
Rogers,III, George W.
Bonding, Terror & Psychotherapy, - A Primer
Steven, John
Gestalt Is, Real People Press
           Awareness, Real People Press
 
Wheeler & Backman
On Intimate Ground ( A Gestalt Approach to Working With Couples), Jossey-Bass Publishers, 1994
Zinker, Joseph
In Search of Good Form, A Gestalt Institute of Cleveland Publication, 1994

 

*

RECOMMENDED READINGS FOR THOSE ATTENDING THE ADVANCED CLINICAL TRAINING:

Rebuilding shattered lives, The responsible treatment of complex post-traumatic and dissociative disorders,

by James A. Chu (1998)

The Body Bears the Burden: Trauma, Dissociation, and Disease,

by Robert C. Scaer

The Stranger In The Mirror, (Paperback)

by Marlene Steinberg,

Traumatic Stress: The Effects of Overwhelming Experience on Mind, Body, and Society, (Hardcover)

by Bessel A. van der Kolk

Affect Dysregulation and Disorders of the Self/Affect Regulation and the Repair of the Self (two-volume set) (Hardcover)

by Allan N. Schore

Waking the Tiger : Healing Trauma : The Innate Capacity to Transform OverwhelmingExperiences, (Paperback)

by Peter A. Levine,

Transforming the Pain, Workbook on vicarious Traumatization,

by Laurie Anne Pearlman

The Body in Recovery,

by John Conger

Trauma and the Therapist,

by Laurie Anne Pearlman

Countertransference and the Treatment of Trauma,

by Constance Dalenberg

Invisible Heroes, Survivors of Trauma and how They heal,

by BellaRuth Naparstek

Trauma and Addiction,

by Tian Dayton,

The Development of the Person,

by L. Alan Sroufe et.al.

Seeking Safety, Atreament Manual for PTSD and Substance Abuse,

by, Lisa M. Najavits

The Body Remembers & The Body Remembers, Casebook,

by, Babette Rothschild

 

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Achterburg, J./Lawlis, G.F.

Imagery of Cancer, 1978
Bridges of the BodyMind
Aron, Lewis and Anderson, Frances Sommer
Relational Perspectives on the Body, The Analytic Press, NJ, London, 1998
Bach, George R./Goldberg, Herb
Creative Aggression, Avon Books, NY, 1974
Baker, Ellsworth
Man in the Trap, Avon Books, NY, 1967
Berne, Eric
Games People Play, Grove Press, 1981
Black, Claudia
It Will Never Happen to Me!, Denver, 1981
Borysenko, Ph.D., Joan
Minding the Body, Mending the Mind, Addison-Wesley Publishing Co., Inc., 1987
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Directing the Movies of Your Mind
Carrington, P.
Freedom in Meditation
Cousins, N.
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Gestalt Awareness, Perennial Library
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Gawain, Shakati
Creative Visualization, Whatever Publishing, Inc., San Raphael, CA, 1978
Green , Elmer
Beyond Biofeedback
Hendricks, Gay & Kathleen
At the Speed of Light, 1993
Hobson, Robert F.
Forms of Feeling, The Heart of Psychotherapy, Tavistock Publications, London & NY, 1985
Jackson, Don/ Lederer, William
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Jampolsky, M.D., Gerald G.
Teach Only Love, Bantam Books, 1983
Kaufman, Gershen
Shame, the Power of Caring, Schenkman books, Inc., Rochester, Vermont, 1980
Keleman, Stanley
Bonding, A Somatic-Emotional Approach to Transference, Center Press, Berkley, 1986
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Somatic Reality, Center Press, 1979
Kepner, James
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Kernberg, Otto
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Kopp, Sheldon
Back To One, Science and Behavior books, Palo Alto, CA, 1995
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The Body Reveals, Harper & Row, Publishers, NY, 1976
Lansky, Melvin R. and Morrison, Andrew P.
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How to Meditate
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Mahler, M.
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Masterson, J.F.
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Masterson, J.F., and Klien, R., (Eds.)
Psychotherapy of the Disorders of the Self: The Masterson Approach, Brunner/Mazel, NY, 1988
Miller, Alice
Thou Shalt Not Be Aware, 1984
Miller, Michael Vincent
Intimate Terrorism: The Crisis of Love inan Age of Disillusion, W.W Norton & Co., Inc., NY, 1996
Summers, Frank
Object Relations, Theories, and Psychopathology: A Comprehensive Text, The Analytic Press, New Jersey, London, 1994
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The Healing Journey: New Approaches to Consciousness, 1973
Oyle, I.
The Healing Mind, 1975
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Gestalt Approaches in Counseling, Holt, Rinnard & Winston
Perls, Fritz
In and Out of the Garbage Pail, Bantam Books, 1969
Perls, Fritz and Baumgartner
Legacy From Fritz, Science and Behavior Books
Prather, Hugh
Notes To Myself, Real People Press, Lafayette, CA, 1970
I Me Touch the Earth, the Earth Touches, Doubleday & Co., 1972
Ram Dass, Baba
Be Here Now, Lama Foundation, New Mexico, 1971
Rogers, Carl
The Interpersonal Relationship: The Core of Guidance, Sensitivity Training and the Laboratory Approach, ED. By Golembiewski, Robert and Blumberg, Arthur, Peacock Publishers, Ithica, IL, 1970
Rosenblatt, Daniel
Opening Doors: What Happens in Gestalt Therapy, The Center for Gestalt Development, NY, 1989
Samuels and Samuels
Seeing with the Minds' Eye, 1975
Samuels, M. and Bennett, H.
Be Well, 1974
Well Body Book
Satir, Virginia
Conjoint Family Therapy, Rev. Ed., Science and Behavior Books, Inc., Palo Alto, CA, 1972
Peoplemaking, Science and Behavior Books, Inc., Palo Alto, CA, 1972
Schlfen, A.E.
The Significance of Posture in Communication Systems, Psychiatry, 27, 316, 1964
Shepard, Martin
Fritz, Saturday Review Press
Shutz, William,
Joy, Grove Press, NY, 1967
The Simontons
Getting Well Again, 1980
Simkin, Jim
Mini Lecture in Gestalt Therapy, Word Press
Smith
The Growing Edge of Gestalt Therapy, Word Press
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