Reichian Growth Work

Nick Totton is a body psychotherapist, trainer and supervisor living and working in Calderdale, where he also grows vegetables. He has a grown-up daughter. He has published several other books including Body Psychotherapy: An Introduction, and Press When Illuminated: New and Selected Poems. He is editor of the journal Psychotherapy and Politics International (Wiley). Together with Em, he took the first steps towards initiating the Independent Practitioners Network.Em Edmondson is a body-orientated psychotherapist who has worked in private practise as a therapist since 1981. Past work has included co-facilitating trainings in Reichian growth work and Hakomi. Her current group work approach is Authentic Movement. She is the mother of 2 adults.

• Introduction Chapter 1 Contexts Chapter 2 Energy and Armour Chapter 3 Surrender Chapter 4 The Segments Chapter 5 Growing Up Chapter 6 Character Positions Chapter 7 More on Character Chapter 8 Therapy Chapter 9 Power Chapter 10 Primal Patterns Chapter 11 Cosmic Streaming Chapter 12 Connections and Directions Further Reading

Twenty years on, its authors reaffirm the relevance of their style of Reichian bocywork and its place in the context of today's psychotherapeutic preoccupations with embodiment, trauma and attachment - Jargon free, charming and democratic, it makes for and accessible read. Lisa Schmidt, body therapist, Therapy Today, June 2009.