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This event celebrates the publication of 'Primitive Bodily Communications in Psychotherapy'. You will hear from the book's editor, Raffaella Hilty, and from contributors who offer diverse psychoanalytic approaches in this significant and valuable edited collection.

Every psychotherapist will be familiar with what it means to experience the hatred and despair of their most vulnerable patients in the midst of a psychotherapy session. Most often these patients will manage to express their feelings verbally, but what about those who never developed the capacity to speak? Or those who are capable of talking, but carry a complex range of unprocessed embodied feelings that cannot be verbally expressed? Some patients must rely on another type of language in order to communicate their dissociative states of mind.

‘Primitive Bodily Communications’ explores how the ‘talking cure’ can still work when words fail and the body ‘talks.’ Non-verbal communication can be thought of as a form of body language and, even though this is a topic not frequently discussed, many practitioners have experienced working with people who communicate through the use of their bodies. The book does not refer to bodily communications as primitive because we see them as inferior to verbal language, but simply because they point to the beginnings of psychological development, to primary ways of being and relating, as well as to enduring aspects of ourselves.

The contributors explore the topic of primitive bodily communications in the context of intellectual disability, eating disorders and bodily neglect, focusing on the communicative aspect of bodily expressions within the therapeutic relationship. A wide spectrum of clinical cases illustrates how these patients can reach a state of better physical and emotional containment and, when possible, of verbal communication.

About the speakers

Raffaella Hilty, psychoanalytic psychotherapist and editor of 'Primitive Bodily Communications in Psychotherapy'
Ruth Williams, chair, Jungian analyst and integrative psychotherapist
Brett Kahr, psychoanalytic Psychotherapist, author and Visiting Professor at Regent’s University London
Christina Wipf Perry, Publishing Director at Confer & Karnac Publishing
Salvatore Martini , psychologist and Jungian analyst
Mark Linington, psychoanalytic psychotherapist with The Bowlby Centre
Valerie Sinason, psychoanalyst and President of the Institute of Psychotherapy and Disability

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