On Moving and Being Moved: Non-Verbal Behavior in Clinical Practice Book

At the heart of LaBarre?s book are seven long-term psychoanalytic cases that highlight the richly multifaceted ways in which nonverbal behavior enters into the creation and resolution of psychopathology. Working toward a refined understanding of the nonverbal organized around important phenomenological and psychodynamic distinctions, LaBarre delineates various levels of movement and behavioral interaction in order to sort out the multiple sources and meanings of nonverbal behavior. Whereas certain nonverbal behaviors derive from conflict, she shows, other nonverbal behaviors reflect temperament, aspects of early development, or other issues. And different types of nonverbal behavior, she shows, have different treatment implications. Certain nonverbal behaviors can be directly confronted and discussed in the therapeutic conversation while other nonverbal behaviors will affect the envelope of patient-therapist relatedness and call for altered participation by ! the therapist at the nonverbal level.Read More