Book
Body of Awareness
A foundation text for understanding the relationship between early infant movement and adult psychotherapy.
“Dr. Frank, in this pathbreaking study, makes a compelling case for the critical role of ‘body sense’ in developing self awareness from the earliest days of infancy, and in maintaining a healthy mind-body equilibrium throughout life. She provides sensitive and exquisite case studies and shows a deep understanding of movement, development and therapeutic change. This book will find a wide and receptive audience.”
— Esther Thelen, Ph.D., Professor, Department of Psychology, Indiana University;
Author of A Dynamic Systems Approach to Development
Video
Your Healing Breath
A unique video dedicated to reducing stress and promoting health through breathing.
“I recommend this tape to anyone looking for a simple and direct way to breathe more fully and consciously.” — Yoga Journal
“When treating panic disorder, post-traumatic stress disorder, recovering addicts, and many others, I prescribe home study with Your Healing Breath. With its use of imagery, the tape teaches the unconcious mind. A man suffering from full blown panic attacks in the middle of the night began using the tape. He has had no reoccurences for six months.”
— Donald Wilbert, M.D., Psychiatrist, Seattle, Washington
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Book Chapter
Ruella Frank
“Embodying Creativity, Developing Experience:
The Therapy Process and Its Developmental Foundation”
Published in:
Margherita Spagnuolo-Lobb,
Nancy Amendt-Lyon, (eds.)
Creative License: The Art of Gestalt Therapy.
Wien/New York.
Springer-Verlag, 2004
Introduction
It is the intention of human organisms to seek relationship within their environment. Through this dynamic interaction, the organism changes and grows “. . . assimilating from the environment what it needs for its very growth” (PHG, 1951, p. viii). And how the organism incorporates what is vital to its developing is through the creativity of adjusting or the spontaneous interacting of one with another to create something different and new.
Any adjusting is creative insofar as it leads to integration: the unification of two unlike essences that are now made into a more inclusive whole. This is the experience of contacting; the quality of connecting with oneself and within the environment.
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Book Chapter
Ruella Frank
“Developmental Somatic Psychotherapy: Developmental Process Embodied Within The Clinical Moment”
Published in:
Totton, Nick, (ed.), (2005)
New Dimensions in Body Psychotherapy.
Open University Press/McGraw Hill Education
Introduction
As one of the contributing authors to New Dimensions in Body Psychotherapy, I am pleased to be part of a project that brings together diverse and novel explorations within the field of psychotherapy. A pre-requisite for any work to be labeled a new dimension is that new parts have been integrated into what is already known in such a way as to create a different and unique whole.
This is certainly true of Developmental Somatic Psychotherapy. Inspired by the work of somatic/developmental practitioners and theorists, this new dimension is a relational and movement-oriented approach to psychotherapy within a Gestalt therapy framework. In pulling together these dynamic strands, a template for understanding and working with early psycho-physical blocks as they arise within the here-and-now of the adult therapy session has emerged.
Other Languages
Body of Awareness is available in the following languages:
- English
- French
- Spanish
- Italian
