Ruella Frank, Ph.D., has been exploring early infant movements and their relationship to the adult since the mid-1970s.
She brings many years of experience to her work as a gestalt psychotherapist — as a professional dancer, yoga practitioner/teacher, student of various movement theories, and student of Laura Perls, co-founder of gestalt therapy.
Ruella is founder and director of the Center for Somatic Studies, faculty at Gestalt Associates for Psychotherapy and the New York Institute for Gestalt therapy, and also teaches throughout the United States, Europe, and Mexico.
She is author of articles and chapters in various publications, as well as the book Body of Awareness: A Somatic and Developmental Approach to Psychotherapy, available in four languages (GestaltPress).
Her new book with co-author and psychoanalyst Frances La Barre, The First Year and the Rest of Your Life: Movement, Development and Psychotherapeutic Change, is to be published by Routledge Press and will be available in Fall 2010.
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Some of Ruella Frank’s published work:
A Somatic and Developmental Approach to Psychotherapy.
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