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- Title
Embodying the Mind: Movement as a Container for Destructive Aggression.
- Authors
Twemlow, Stuart W.; Sacco, Frank C.; Fonagy, Peter
- Abstract
Violent, nonmentalizing individuals who act out aggression do not usually respond to verbal therapeutic approaches alone. We suggest the movement in physically oriented therapies, such as yoga and martial arts, combined with psychodynamic psychotherapy are critical in reaching these individuals. We also suggest embodiment as a direct link to the kinesthetic core of easily disturbed attachment experiences. This process embodying the mind requires a safe, containing context found in the therapist. Clinical vignettes show how this might be done in both individual and social contexts. These vignettes also show a way to think about such a combination of techniques and theories.
- Subjects
THERAPEUTICS; YOGA; MARTIAL arts; PSYCHODYNAMICS; PSYCHOTHERAPY; PSYCHOTHERAPISTS
- Publication
American Journal of Psychotherapy (Association for the Advancement of Psychotherapy), 2008, Vol 62, Issue 1, p1
- ISSN
0002-9564
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1176/appi.psychotherapy.2008.62.1.1