61st Annual Conference

Saturday, February 28
All-Day Workshops
9:00 A.M. – 12:00 Noon & 2:30 – 5:30 P.M.

Master Workshop 81a
Body-Oriented Group Psychotherapy 

 

Chairs:            

Scott Baum, Ph.D., FaclinP, Private Practice, New York, New York

Elaine Tuccillo, Ph.D., CGP, Private Practice, New York, New York

 

Open to participants with more than ten years of group psychotherapy

experience

 

Body-oriented psychotherapy uses touch to facilitate  deepening of experience, cathartic expression, and restitutive moments. This workshop will illuminate and explore the principles underlying the use of touch in psychotherapy groups, the considerations to be applied in its use, and the special opportunities as well as difficulties it offers.

demonstration-experiential-didactic-sharing of work experiences

 

Course References:

 

1. Keleman, S. (1983). Emotional Anatomy: The Structure of Experience. Center Press, Berkley CA.

2. Lowen, A. (1955). The Language of the Body. Collier, NY.

3. Baum, S. (1997). Living on Shifting Sands: Grounding and Borderline Personality

    Organization. Journal of Contemporary Psychotherapy.