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Body Psychotherapy: A Theoretical Foundation for Clinical Practice

Author(s) : Ulfried Geuter

Reviews and Endorsements

This is the book somatic psychotherapy and psychotherapy in general has been waiting for! With clear and incisive analysis, Geuter convincingly argues why the subjective body must be included in all psychotherapy modalities. He provides a very clear philosophical and conceptual analysis of the need for all psychotherapy to embrace relational, emotional, embodied and enactive human experience, rather than biology, as the basis of understanding for clinical theory and practice. This professional tour de force, covering an incredibly broad range of the historical and contemporary professional and broader humanistic and philosophical literature, is a ‘must read’ for all in the psychotherapy and related helping professions.
Jeff Barlow, BA, BEd, MEd, Somatic Psychotherapist, supervisor and trainer; founding director, Australian College of Contemporary Somatic Psychotherapy

Dr. Geuter offers us an intensely erudite yet delightfully readable survey of the contemporary field of body psychotherapy. His perspectives are refreshingly thoughtful and provide an interesting ‘take’ on the current state of these vitally important modes of healing practice. This book will help to advance the field significantly.
Barnaby B. Barratt, PhD, DHS, Director of doctoral studies in Bodymind Healing at the Parkmore Institute, Parkmore (Johannesburg), South Africa; author of The Emergence of Somatic Psychology and Bodymind Therapy

This is an excellent book which transcends but values the differences between schools and is a masterly foundation for body psychotherapy as a mainstream of psychotherapy.
David Boadella, PhD (Hon), Founder of Biosynthesis; founding president and honorary member of the European Association for Body Psychotherapy

In this exquisite book, Ulfried Geuter has taken on an epic task - clarifying and integrating the various streams of body psychotherapy - creating common ground for theory and practice both within and beyond embodied forms of psychotherapy. His work combines masterful reviews of the field’s history, development, and current trends, as well as contributions from philosophy, neuroscience, and classic psychological theory and practice, while at the same time deftly weaving in his own integrative perspective. By centering his work around the holistic nature of human experience, he brings the reader to a satisfying sense of structural integrity and clinical clarity. This book will be on my shelf as a go-to reference as well as an engaging read.
Christine Caldwell, PhD, LPC, BC-DMT, Professor Emeritus, Naropa University Somatic Counseling Program, Boulder, USA; author of Bodyfulness and Conscious Moving

Ulfried Geuter, a leading thinker about the theory and practice of body psychotherapy, has produced a highly original book with a sophisticated and thorough theoretical perspective. We here get Geuter at his best.
George Downing, PhD, former Clinical Faculty, Salpetriere Hospital and University of Paris VIII, France

This book gives us nothing less than a radical re-envisioning of the purpose and practice of Body Psychotherapy. Geuter takes the reader well beyond the fraught history of this field and into a new synthesis that places the experiencing human subject in the relational, present moment encounter with the therapist who guides the client into a deeper felt experience of their own embodied self.
Alan Fogel, PhD, Professor Emeritus of Psychology, University of Utah, USA; author of Body Sense: The Science and Practice of Embodied Self Awareness and Restorative Embodiment and Resilience