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200 pages
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Groundworks: Narratives of Embodiment by Don Hanlon Johnson Groundworks gives accounts
of the actual processes of working with individuals in six major
schools of Somatics by either the creator of the method itself or a
leading teacher of the method. The creators are Robert Hall of Lomi
School, Bonnie Bainbridge Cohen of Body-Mind Centering, and Emilie
Conrad Da'oud of Continuum. Leading teachers of methods include
Michael Salveson on Rolfing, Elizabeth Beringer on Feldenkrais work,
and Darcy Elman on F. M. Alexander Technique. Each therapist
describes how he or she approaches and diagnoses a patient's
problem, how he or she determines what and where to work, and the
progress of a session. Each therapist shows the complexity of
working with somatic processes and the resulting reward for client
and therapist both.
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Sample the book: http://books.google.com.au/books?id=PAU6gqPNwdkC
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From introduction: "With the help of Basil Anderman, Michael Marsh, and Michael Murphy, we were able to begin in 1989 a series of study seminars that has continued to meet over the years. A core group included the authors of this book, as well as Judith Aston and Charlotte Selver. We met several times with a group of biological scientists including Seymour Levine, George Solomon, Candace Pert, Margaret Kemeny, Peter Anton, and Martha Stampfer. We were joined at times by the philosophers David Michael Levin and Susan Griffin, cultural historian Elinor Gadon, and martial arts scholar Michael Malizewski. The core of these rich and nuanced conversations was the exploration and articulation of our work: how we go about it, what happens, what is essential, what peripheral. This document represents the current status of our progress. "We have worked together helping each other speak simply, clearly, experimentally, even biostatistically. The pursuit of simplicity and clarity led us unexpectedly into discussions of the constant occurrence in our work with people of issues of eroticism, abuse and transcendence -- aspects of experience that kept rearing their heads, resisting the sanitized texts that we had intended to write. The soul of science is always fueled by the unexpected, the seemingly unexplicable. With the support of each other, our scientific friends, and our funders, we decided to write our work as it is, commonsensical indeed and humane. But this work is also mystical sometimes and sensual, breaking down familiar categories to reflect the peculiar insights born of our intimacy and frankness with each other, the joys we have had in working together, the soul of healing."
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REVIEWS "This book is a thoughtful account of
how practitioners of these various methods actually go about their
brilliant work. It will advance the field of Somatics."
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About the Author: Don Hanlon Johnson received a Ph.D. in Philosophy from Yale University. He is a professor of Somatics at the California Institute of Integral Studies in San Francisco. For more information: http://donhanlonjohnson.com/
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