Body of Awareness

This work explores the formation of infant movement experience and its manifest influence upon the later adult. It shows how the organizing principles in early development are functionally equivalent to those of the adult and shows 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 of case studies shows how developmental movement patterns are part of the moment-to-moment process of the adult client and how to bring these patterns to awareness within therapy. The client's emerging patterns of breathing, gesture, posture and gait are understood from a developmental framework and attended to within the perspective of this somatic and developmental approach. The case studies convey how, through a variety of experiments, our movement patterns can be subtly altered to enrich rather than inhibit our current functioning.

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<p>"It is a rare person in my experience who can say; 'This is what, how and why we did what we did.' Ruella Frank's manuscript gave me joy as it wove in and out of case example, theory, and personal reflexive involvement. For the therapist her work is essential; for the lay person excellent for self help."<p>- Richard Kitzler, M.A., Founding Fellow, New York Institute for Gestalt Therapy<p>"In Body of Awareness, Ruella Frank has given us an exceptional integration of movement patterns with adult psychotherapy. I recommend this book highly."<p>- James Kepner, Ph.D., author, Body Process and Healing Tasks<p>"The case studies are thorough, multidimensional, and poignant. For those who do body work, this book should be an indispensable library addition. For those who do not, it offers an eye-opening opportunity to hone observational skills and perhaps to learn some techniques of body intervention."<p>- Stephen Johnson, Ph.D., author, Character Styles<p>"She provides sensitive and exquisit

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