Introduction. Part I: Opening Dialogue. The Emerging Dyad: Rachel and Alex. The First Session. Part II: Developmental Patterns and the Processes of Differentiation. Contacting and the Emergence of Pattern. Primary Supports for Contacting and Their Disruptions. A Closer Look at Differentiation. The Emergence of Toddling. The Adult Psychotherapy Client: Karla. Primary Orienting: Gravity, Earth, and Space. Orienting Through Weight. The Developing Experience of Weight. Yielding. The Moro Response. Orienting Possibilities and the Adult Therapy Client. Sharon: The Process of Yielding and the Experience of Support. Rhonda: Losing and Making Support. Part III: Reaching and Being Reached. The Developing Dynamics of Reaching. The Rooting Response: Reaching with the Mouth. The Adult Therapy Client. Bob. Cynthia. Brenda. Part IV: The Upright Stance. The Anatomy of Upright Being. Difficulties of Being Upright. Upright Behaviors in Infant Development. How Disruptions Develop. Dilemmas in Righting: The Adult Client. Lisa. Karen. Part V: Coming Into Wholeness: Annie's Story. Annie: 1985. Our Early Sessions. The Therapy: 1985-1996. Annie: 1996. Part VI: Resources for Therapists.
Ruella Frank, Ph.D., is on the training faculty at the Gestalt Associates for Psychotherapy, the New York Institute for Gestalt Therapy, adjunct faculty at the Gestalt Institute of Norway in Oslo, and the Center for Psychotherapy and Psychology in Madrid. She also trains within the United States and throughout the world.
"It is a rare person in my experience who can say; 'This is what, how and why we did what we did.' Ruella Frank's manuscript gave me joy as it wove in and out of case example, theory, and personal reflexive involvement. For the therapist her work is essential; for the lay person excellent for self help."- Richard Kitzler, M.A., Founding Fellow, New York Institute for Gestalt Therapy"In Body of Awareness, Ruella Frank has given us an exceptional integration of movement patterns with adult psychotherapy. I recommend this book highly."- James Kepner, Ph.D., author, Body Process and Healing Tasks"The case studies are thorough, multidimensional, and poignant. For those who do body work, this book should be an indispensable library addition. For those who do not, it offers an eye-opening opportunity to hone observational skills and perhaps to learn some techniques of body intervention."- Stephen Johnson, Ph.D., author, Character Styles"She provides sensitive and exquisite case studies and shows a deep understanding of movement, development, and therapeutic change. This book will find a wide and receptive audience."- Esther Thelen, Ph.D., author, A Dynamic Systems Approach to Development"Ruella Frank's brilliant account of the processes by which we learn/discover movement from infancy provides us with a template from which we can delve into a deeper sense of self and fullness of being."- Bonnie Bainbridge Cohen, author, Sensing, Feeling, and Action
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