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No ‘Relating Cure’ without Embodiment (2007)

Michael - Presentations — Sat, 03 Mar 2007 00:00:00 +0000

This is some of the content of my presentation at the 2006 BACP conference "It's the relationship that matters" turned into an article, bringing some of the relevant modern neuroscience and bodymind principles to counselling.

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The 8 Kinds of Relationship to the Symptom (2005, simple)

Michael - Handouts — Wed, 02 Mar 2005 00:00:00 +0000

This is the simplified version of a handout prepared for a presentation at a conference for therapists working in primary care, who were interested in bringing an embodied perspective to their patients. Later this became the basis for a regular CPD workshop I was running on 'working with illness and psychosomatic symptoms'. The idea is that all of these kinds of relationship can be functional at times, but that we cannot hope to grasp the embodied and metaphorical meaning of a symptom until they all have been taken into account. I was suggesting a blueprint for an integrated healthcare system that develops interdisciplinary facilities, drawing from and integrating orthodox, complementary and psychological approaches. The underlying idea is that if there is any meaning in illness at all (a very dodgy and dubious notion in the first place, but unfortunately inescapable from a psychological perspective), than the only way of getting in touch with it is to listen to and learn to speak the language of the symptom, resembling in its communication nothing so much as a poet.

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The 8 Kinds of Relationship to the Symptom (2005)

Michael - Handouts — Tue, 01 Mar 2005 00:00:00 +0000

This handout was prepared for a presentation at a conference for therapists working in primary care, who were interested in bringing an embodied perspective to their patients. Later this became the basis for a regular CPD workshop I was running on 'working with illness and psychosomatic symptoms'. The idea is that all of these kinds of relationship can be functional at times, but that we cannot hope to grasp the embodied and metaphorical meaning of a symptom until they all have been taken into account. I was suggesting a blueprint for an integrated healthcare system that develops interdisciplinary facilities, drawing from and integrating orthodox, complementary and psychological approaches. The underlying idea is that if there is any meaning in illness at all (a very dodgy and dubious notion in the first place, but unfortunately inescapable from a psychological perspective), than the only way of getting in touch with it is to listen to and learn to speak the language of the symptom, resembling in its communication nothing so much as a poet.

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Psychotherapy: the ‘Relating Cure’ – Relating to the Psychosomatic Symptom (2005)

Michael - Articles & Papers — Tue, 01 Mar 2005 00:00:00 +0000

This article was written as a response to some interview questions by Penny Gray, the editor of the Healthcare Counselling & Psychotherapy Journal. It is primarily addressed to counsellors working in the NHS, but it also covers wider questions regarding the bodymind and psychosomatic aspects of counselling. It clarifies the bodymind connection and what we might mean by 'psychosomatic', addresses the paradigm clash between the 'medical model' and counselling, and briefly mentions my suggestion concerning the 'eight ways of relating to the symptom'.

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