The Embodied Self: Movement and Psychoanalysis [ Laying the groundwork -- The language of movement: embodying psychic processes -- On the meaning of the body from a psychoanalytic perspective -- Embodied attentiveness: a synthesis of frameworks -- One infant's manic manipulation of space and time -- The infant's language -- Falling into space -- The social arena of the nursery -- "I don't know where I come from" -- "I don't know where I'm going" -- Signals from the solar plexus ]

1st ed., 1st printing ; xvii, 226 pages : illustrations ; SIGNED presentation to the author's mother on the half-title ; ISBN 9781855753945, 1855753944 ; OCLC 1064707527 ; Contents: Laying the groundwork -- The language of movement: embodying psychic processes -- On the meaning of the body from a psychoanalytic perspective -- Embodied attentiveness: a synthesis of frameworks -- One infant's manic manipulation of space and time -- The infant's language -- Falling into space -- The social arena of the nursery -- "I don't know where I come from" -- "I don't know where I'm going" -- Signals from the solar plexus ; By integrating principles from her background as a movement psychotherapist and movement analyst with key concepts from contemporary psychoanalysis, the author offers a new perspective on exploring the interrelationships between nonverbal and verbal 'articulation' in any therapy setting. ; Katya Bloom is a movement psychotherapist in private practice in London. She taught Dance Movement Therapy at the University of Surrey Roehampton from 1985 until 2002. She is a Certified Movement Analyst from the Laban/Bartenieff Institute of Movement Studies in New York, and is a qualified teacher of Suprapto Suryodarmo's Amerta Movement. She also teaches movement to actors at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art and is the author of two stage plays. She is co-author with Rosa Shreeves of Moves: A Sourcebook of Ideas for Body Awareness and Creative Movement (1998). She has pursued her interest in the interrelationships between psychoanalysis and movement since coming to London from the USA in 1983, culminating in her Ph.D., "Movement as a Psychophysical Process," under the auspices of the University of E. London and the Tavistock Clinic, in 2005. ; FINE.…