This book explores the significance of movement processes as they shape one’s experience through life. With an introductory foreword by Michael Vincent Miller, it provides a comprehensive, practical understanding of how we lose the wonder and curiosity we move with as children, and how we can reclaim that.A new paradigm is presented in the making of experience through a radical and thorough investigation into the basics of animated life. The book utilizes a precise phenomenological...

Merging scientific theory with a practical, clinical approach, Body of Awareness explores the formation of infant movement experience and its manifest influence upon the later adult. Most significantly, it shows how the organizing principles in early development are functionally equivalent to those of the adult. It demonstrates how movement plays a critical role in a developing self-awareness for the infant and in maintaining a healthy self throughout life. In addition, a variety ...

The movement repertoire that develops in the first year of life is a language in itself and conveys desires, intentions, and emotions. This early life in motion serves as the roots of ongoing nonverbal interaction and later verbal expression – in short, this language remains a key element in communication throughout life.In their path-breaking book, gestalt therapist Ruella Frank and psychoanalyst Frances La Barre give readers the tools to see and understand the logic of this nonve...

Elba Flores Núñez tuvo la oportunidad de entrevistar a Jean-Marie Delacroix, Carmen Vázquez Bandín, Jean-Marie Robine y Ruella Frank. A partir de estos intercambios, notas personales, asistencia a sus cursos y talleres, una revisión incansable de su bibliografía, y por supuesto, sus propias vivencias e interpretaciones, la autora comparte en este libro el resultado de ese interesante proceso. En cada línea logra entretejer la elaboración teórica, la práctica psicoterapéutica y la experienc...