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Featured Articles brings you professional articles by Santa Barbara Graduate Institute Faculty related to Somatic Psychology and Prenatal and Perinatal Psychology. Bookmark this page and check back often for new additions.
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USABP Presenter Marjorie L. Rand, PhD has been in private practice for 32 years as a dance/movement therapist, a somatic psychotherapist, has studied Yoga for thirty years and is a supported yoga therapist. Dr. Rand has also trained and supervised therapists internationally and she is the co-author of three books and many published articles on body/mind issues.
Click here for a copy of Dr. Marjorie Rand's free article co-authored by Michael Ruccolo titled "THE SOMATIC PSYCHOTHERAPY/ YOGA CONNECTION" |
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SBGI Special Feature and Article - United States Association for Body Psychotherapy
5th Natioanl Conference: Getting to the Heart of the Matter, In Depth Explorations of Body Psychotherapy.
July 23 - 26, 2008 in Philadelphia
Dr. Rae Johnson, Chair of the Somatic Psychology Department at SBGI, will be presenting at the upcoming USABP conference in Philadelphia July 23 - 26, 2008. Dr. Johnson's afternoon session titled The Embodied Psychotherapist: How We Teach Must Embody What We Teach, will explore research methodologies that incorporate body knowing and will integrate the latest knowledge of neuroscience, attachment theory, trauma, and mindfulness in the service of prevention and mental health. To register for the conference please visit www.usabp.org
Click here to read an article by Rae Johnson, PhD
Sorting the Mixed Bag: Grounding and Integrating a Multidisciplinary Somatic Practice |
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Susan Aposhyan, M.A., L.P.C., is a contributing faculty member at Santa Barbara Graduate Institute and has developed Body-Mind Psychotherapy as an application of Body-Mind Centering to the process of psychotherapy. In addition to trainings and workshops, she maintains a private practice. She is the former director of the Somatic Psychology Department at Naropa University, and is the author of Natural Intelligence: Body-Mind Integration and Human Development, 1999, Lippincott, Williams & Wilkins and Body-Mind Psychotherapy, 2004, W.W. Norton.
For more information regarding Body-Mind Psychotherapy please visit www.bodymindpsychotherapy.com
Please download a recent article by Susan Aposhyan, Pattern and Plasticity: Utilizing Early Motor Development As A Tool For Therapeutic Change. |
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Science and Consciousness Conference presenter, Benig Mauger is a Jungian Psychoanalytical Psychotherapist and a pioneer in prenatal and perinatal psychology in Ireland and is also the author of Songs from the Womb: Healing the Wounded Mother, Reclaiming Father: The Search for Wholeness in Men, Women and Children.
SBGI is proud to share with our readers From Spirit to Child: Birth into Being, an excerpt from Benig Mauger's new book, Love In A Time of Broken Heart - Healing From Within. © Benig Mauger ISBN 978-0-9547012-1-5 Soul Connections, February 2008.
To purchase Love In A Time of Broken Heart - Healing From Within
and other books by Benig Mauger please visit www.soul-connections.com/pages/books.php |
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SBGI Interview with Vice President of Academic Affairs, Dr. George R. Haynes
Dr. Haynes, what have you done recently that relates to the SBGI focus on the whole person?
In September of this year I co-designed and co-lead the initiation of Turning Point at Nemacolin Woodlands Resort in western Pennsylvania. This five day wellness retreat included individual consultations with medical and life balance professionals, guidance from fitness experts and nutritionists, mind-body-spirit seminars, culinary classes, art and music workshops, spa services, and outdoor adventures on the almost 3,000 acres that make up Nemacolin.
What attracted you to SBGI?
SBGI was attractive because of its holistic orientation to two emerging and evolving fields of graduate level psychology, as well as the potential for further developing workshops and seminars that are body, mind, spirit and emotions oriented.
Where would you like to take SBGI in the next five years?
Over the next five years SBGI has the potential to become a recognized leader in prenatal and perinatal psychology, or primary psychology, and in somatic psychology. It also has the potential to contribute substantially to integrative wellness in order to more effectively “nurture the innate wisdom of the whole person.” I look forward to helping to guide these initiatives in collaboration with a dynamic and creative SBGI community.
For a copy of “Continuing Educational Opportunities in Complementary Medicine” by George R. Haynes, Ph.D., please email info@sbgi.edu |
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| SBGI Faculty & Article Feature: "'Down Will Come Baby': Prenatal Stress, Primitive Defenses and Gestational Dysregulation," by Paula Thomson, Psy.D., explores the direct influence of maternal stress on the developing embryo and fetus. Dr. Paula Thomson is a clinical psychologist in private practice in Los Angeles, CA, a member of the faculty at Santa Barbara Graduate Institute, and affiliated with York University, California State University Northridge, and UCLA. Read more… |
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| Our next featured article is by Dr. Gregory Johanson titled "Psychotherapy, Science & Spirit: Nonlinear Systems, Hakomi Therapy, and the Tao" which explores how contemporary science may inform psychotherapies that also allow for concepts of "Spirit" using Hakomi Therapy as an integration. Read more… |
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SBGI is proud to feature faculty member Dr. David Chamberlain, one of the pioneers in the field of Prenatal and Perinatal Psychology.
In September at the Gentle Birth World Congress he was presented with the "Mother Goose Award" by Barbara Harper, Executive Director of the Global Maternal/Child Health Association in recognition of his contribution to mothers and babies. The award Dr. Chamberlain received states the following: "The Fathers of the World Respect You - The Mothers of the World Adore You - The Babies of the World Love You - ...For Letting them Speak"
Dr. Chamberlain is also the author of The Mind of Your Newborn Baby, 3rd ed. 1998, which is now published in 12 languages and is also the editor of birthpsychology.com. In 2003 Dr. Chamberlain was recognized as a "Living Treasure" by Mothering Magazine and in 2006 he and Michel Odent were presented with an award for "Significant Contributions to Prenatal and Perinatal Culture of the Ukraine."
Since 1980 his voice has been heard in over 18 countries speaking for the intelligence of newborns and babies in the womb, and urging parents and caretakers to imrove the psychological quality of birth.
To read Dr. David Chamberlain's recent article "Delusional Psychologies of Circumcision and Civilization" click here. |
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Relational Somatic Psychotherapy: Collected Essays of Robert Hilton, Ph.D.,
Michael Sieck, Ph.D., Editor
During the past decade or so, new advances in the study of the functioning brain have led to exciting insights into brain-behavior relationships. At the same time, significant research from the field of infant attachment has shed important light on how early relationships between infants and caregivers impact the development of personality, children's behavior, adult relationships and even what kind of parents variously attached infants will later become. Read more… |
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| A Different Kind of Presence: Bringing body- centered experience into your work
by Rob Fisher
Hakomi teacher and trainer, graciously invites the reader to try on a few simple practices for joining and attending to another in the spirit of transparency, compassion and curiosity. Rob supports therapists to enhance the intensity and effectiveness of their psychotherapeutic practice by engaging the following therapeutic interventions of tracking, contacting, immersing and mindfulness drawn from Hakomi Experiential Psychotherapy and the work of Ron Kurtz. Rob offers reassurance to the many who burden themselves with having 'to know it all' by poetically reminding the reader that the "...flower has intrinsic knowledge of how to bloom and the skin has intrinsic knowledge of how to heal, the psyche has an innate intelligence that, given the right conditions, will unfold in a healing direction." Read more… |
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Treating Tsunami Survivors for Trauma
by Raja Selvam, PhD
“The picture was a devastating one. The mother and father grieving while holding the hands of their dead son lying on a beach in Cuddalore, Tamil Nadu, a south Indian state that lost thousands of lives to the tsunami of December 26, 2004. I had carried around a copy of the India Today magazine with the picture of the grieving parents…” Read more… |
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Neurospychoanalytic Viewpoint
by Allan N. Schore, PhD
Dr. Allan Schore comments on Steven Knoblauch's paper, "Body Rhythms and the Unconscious: Toward an Expanding of Clinical Attention." In this article, "Neurospychoanalytic Viewpoint", Dr. Schore summarizes the Knablauch presentation as well as his own, "The Essential Role of the Right Brain in the Implicit Self: Development, Psychopathogenesis, and Psychotherapy". Read more… |
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About Real Babies
by David B. Chamberlain, PhD
An Address to the Graduates of Santa Barbara Graduate Institute, July 21, 2006.
“Babies are powerful beings with a huge mission. On arrival, they turn women into mothers, men into fathers, and couples into families. They humanize us, teach us tenderness, and inspire attachment. If we let them, they lead us toward a true civilization. And for all this, they get no particular credit for a magnificent…” Read more… |
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Developmental Somatic Psychotherapy: Developmental Process Embodied Within The Clinical Moment
by Ruella Frank
A chapter from the book, "New Dimensions in Body Psychotherapy," edited by Nick Totten and published by Open University Press/McGraw Hill Education, 2004.
This chapter introduces the reader to several foundational ideas of Developmental Somatic Psychotherapy which uses a Gestalt therapy paradigm to uncover implicit experiences of early infancy emerging within the therapy relationship. A case study is included to show how the client's patterns of breathing, gesture, posture, and gait are diagnosed and treated using a developmental/somatic lens. A variety of experiments within this study show how an awareness of non-verbal communications immediately reveal existential material relevant to therapy. These non-verbal patterns, when subtly altered, provide the client with richer and more fluid ways of functioning. Read more… |
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Amygdala
By Michael J. Shea, Ph.D.
This article is a chapter in Dr. Shea’s forthcoming book Biodynamic Craniosacral Therapy: Volume 1 from North Atlantic Books. Understanding the important relationship between this critical structure in the infant’s brain and the attachment relationship has significant impacts on the practice of manual therapy and especially craniosacral therapy. The article points out how imprinting of the amygdala takes place after birth and elaborates specific issues regarding the therapeutic use of touch. Read more… |
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A Developmental Pschobiological Approach to Couples Therapy: A Synopis of This Approach
By Stan Tatkin, Psy.D.
This is a principle-driven therapeutic approach to couples psychotherapy that is informed by current neuroscience and mother-infant attachment research. Arousal Regulation – Attachment – Developmental Neuroscience – Therapeutic
Enactment. The four domains of arousal regulation, attachment, developmental neuroscience, and therapeutic enactment are puzzle pieces that integrate various forms and disciplines of psychotherapy, human development, and scientific investigation. It is difficult to adequately represent this treatment approach by discussing it in summary form. Nevertheless, in the interest of brevity, the main bullet points of this approach will be divided among these domains. Read more... |
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Including the Body in Mainstream Psychotherapy for Traumatized Individuals
By Pat Ogden, PhD, Clare Pain, MD, Kekuni Minton, PhD, and Janina Fisher, PhD. Introduction by Allan N. Schore, PhD, Editor.
This essay demonstrates that including somatic interventions in mainstream psychotherapy practice is essential in the treatment of trauma. Arousal and intersubjective regulatory principles are blended with somatic interventions to offer a therapeutic method that integrates both top-down and bottom-up approaches. This essay is extrapolated from the book Trauma and the Body: A Sensorimotor Approach to Treatment by Pat Ogden, Kekuni Minton and Clare Pain, and includes an introduction by Allan Schore. Read more… |
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Somatic-Experiential Sex Therapy: A Body-Centered Gestalt
Approach to Sexual Concerns
By Stella Resnick, Ph.D.
This article, previously published in the Gestalt Review (2004, 8(1): 40-64), presents a bodymind model for working with clients in therapy on sexual issues. It contrasts a somatic-experiential approach with the more traditional cognitive-behavioral approach and applies Gestalt principles to sexual self-discovery. The article continues by showing the relevance of attachment research to adult sexuality, draws attention to somatic dynamics in sexually intimate relationships, and concludes with a case study and a description of several methods for working with clients to enhance their sexual intimacy.
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| The Intersubjective Field Of Healing – Beyond Technique
By William Smythe, Certified Advanced Rolfer
This article attempts to bridge the somatically oriented therapy of Rolfing® with the more contemporary views of human development – attachment theory and affect regulation. In particular, the significance of the therapist-client relationship in the outcome of therapy will be explored. Read more… |
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From Felt-Sense to Felt-Self: Neuroaffective Touch and the Relational Matrix
By Aline LaPierre, Psy.D.
Solid evidence shows that touch is not only a fundamental mode of interaction in the infant–caregiver relationship, but also critical for normal brain maturation. This article, previously published in the American Psychological Association’s Psychologist-Psychoanalyst (Volume XXIII, No. 4, Fall 2003), challenges the touch taboo and the resulting touch illiteracy that limits our psychotherapeutic horizons. It suggests that since recent neurobiological research indicates the critical role of touch in human psychology and biology, it is time to reappraise the importance of touch as an effective, perhaps critical, form of clinical reparative intervention. Read more… |
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Nurturing the Possible; Supporting The Integrated Self From The Beginning of Life
By Wendy Anne McCarty, Ph.D., RN
This article includes key principles from Dr. McCarty's Integrated Model of early development. The model was introduced in her developmental psychology book, Welcoming Consciousness: Supporting Babies' Wholeness from the Beginning of Life (2004). This article was previously published in the Institute of Noetic Science's SHIFT magazine. Read more... |
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Bridging Prenatal and Perinatal Psychology with Somatic Psychology
By Christine Caldwell, Ph.D., LPC, ADTR
This article begins the process of identifying some of the bridges that naturally occur between the fields of Prenatal and Perinatal Psychology and Somatic Psychology, and suggests ways in which they might build more, so that each is nourished and supported.
Four main bridges span these two fields. The first deals with... Read more…
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Prenatal and Perinatal Psychotherapy with Adults: An Integrative Model for Empirical Testing
By Bobbie Jo Lyman, PhD
This article identifies an issue within the discipline of prenatal and perinatal (PPN) psychology, namely that the field currently consists of individual practitioners’ modalities without empirical validation around treatment efficacy. The goal was to integrate the PPN literature related to adult psychotherapy into a coherent and practical model to serve as a guide for students and professionals that could be empirically tested. Covered briefly is a review of pivotal literature. This article is provided as a PDF due to it's length. Read more…
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