Listening With the Body: An Exploration in the Countertransference

Field, Nathan

doi:10.1111/j.1752-0118.1989.tb01110.x

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“…These sensations have also been referred to as projective identification (Casement 1985,) and somatic countertransference (Sedgewick 2000;Field 1989). There is, however, little written on how the body might work artistically in pursuing some of these feelings and sensations with a view to insight and potential transformation.…”

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Hougham¹

2005

Dramatherapy

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The following paper is based on research into a dramatic model of group supervision that was also informed by ideas from Jungian psychology. Postgraduate dramatherapy students were given the opportunity to reflect, embody and dramatise what they considered to be 'significant moments' from their placement practice over a period of ten weeks. A semi-structured interview was then carried out with each of the nine participants.Analysis of their responses identified two emerging themes -1) a diversity of perspectives on the same session,where students who participated in the same work had different experiences and 2) working with the drama and the body in supervision offered the chance to reconnect with and investigate body-based experiences from practice. Through continuing to use the art form of drama in supervision (in particuIar role-playing the client), it seemed that qualities and nuances of the session and the therapeutic relationship could be explored. In particular, some of the unconscious communication between therapist and client seemed to be exposed through working with the body and drama.

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Hougham¹

2005

Dramatherapy

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“…Psychoanalytic practitioners work with the dimension of physicality primarily through their re ections on somatic aspects of countertransference experiences stirred up within them through being in the room with the client, through being with the client's presence, posture, and words. Nathan Field (1989), brie y mentioned by Rowan in a different context, has written about feeling abnormally cold, about falling asleep, about sexual arousal. Susie Orbach (1995Orbach ( , 1999 has written extensively about the physicality of the experience of being in the room with a client.…”

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A response to 'Three bodies in psychotherapy' by John Rowan

Turp

2000

European Journal of Psychotherapy & Counselling

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“…I think that such experiences may help the patient to perceive different identities ‘co‐existing within the world’ (Callieri , p. 152) as opposed to the alienating experience of a relationship with a mother ‘who failed to engage with and mirror back the vitality’ of her child and ‘the aliveness of his body’ (Connolly , p. 644). A similar transformation of the interactive field, previously dominated by splitting, can lead to significant experiences of ‘integration of the erotic and spiritual aspect of human relationship in what Jung terms coniunctio ’ (Field , p. 516).…”

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Embodying analysis: the body and the therapeutic process

Martini¹

2016

J Analytical Psychology

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This paper considers the transfer of somatic effects from patient to analyst, which gives rise to embodied countertransference, functioning as an organ of primitive communication. By means of processes of projective identification, the analyst experiences somatic disturbances within himself or herself that are connected to the split-off complexes of the analysand. The analyst's own attempt at mind-body integration ushers the patient towards a progressive understanding and acceptance of his or her inner suffering. Such experiences of psychic contagion between patient and analyst are related to Jung's 'psychology of the transference' and the idea of the 'subtle body' as an unconscious shared area. The re-attribution of meaning to pre-verbal psychic experiences within the 'embodied reverie' of the analyst enables the analytic dyad to reach the archetypal energies and structuring power of the collective unconscious. A detailed case example is presented of how the emergence of the vitalizing connection between the psyche and the soma, severed through traumatic early relations with parents or carers, allows the instinctual impulse of the Self to manifest, thereby reactivating the process of individuation.

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Listening With the Body: An Exploration in the Countertransference

Cited by 50 publications

References 3 publications

Track the Deer, Catch it and Then Let it Go

Track the Deer, Catch it and Then Let it Go

A response to 'Three bodies in psychotherapy' by John Rowan

Embodying analysis: the body and the therapeutic process

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