Body Psychotherapy in Progressive and Chronic Disorders
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PrefaceAcknowledgementsPsychotherapy of Patients with Incurable Disorders. An Untaught Subject1Confronting Multiple Sclerosis. A Challenge for the Bioenergetic Therapist14Multiple Sclerosis: The Psychosomatic Consequence of Unsuccessful Bonding. A Viewpoint35Turning Curse to Blessing: Living with Diabetes49Surviving the Grief of Infertility. A Therapist's Personal Journey62Bioenergetic Therapy of a HIV-Positive Client. Throwing the Therapist Off Balance71The Existential Spiritual Dimension in the Therapy of a Cancer Patient83Atypical Terminal Cancer. A Case Report108Learning from Cancer Patients121Accompanying Patients to the End of Life. Effects on the Body of the Psychotherapist145Epilogue: Writing as Healing155Subject Index157
\ From The CriticsTreating the psychological aspects of incurable disease, this collection of 11 essays by psychotherapists broaches the still gingerly approached subjects of chronic illness, dying, death, and spirituality. Ventling, a bioenergetic therapist in Basel, introduces the challenges diagnoses such as AIDS, cancer, diabetes, infertility, and multiple sclerosis pose for the therapeutic relationship; and the roots of body-oriented psychotherapy emphasizing movement, touch, and breathing in Wilhelm Reich's concept of "character armoring" as a somatic response to trauma. She also traces a patient's course through several years of therapy. Other contributors—most from Europe and two coping with chronic illness themselves— likewise share their process and insights. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR\ \
