5 thinkers, books, and ideas connected to this field.
Morris Berman's 1989 history of the body and consciousness in Western civilization — arguing that Western history can be understood as a progressive loss of somatic awareness and embodied knowledge, from heretical body-wisdom traditions through Cartesian mind-body dualism to modern alienation.
American Jungian analyst who wrote Touching: Body Therapy and Depth Psychology — exploring the relationship between touch, the body, and depth psychological healing — and Mercury Rising, on the psychology of the trickster Mercury/Hermes.
Irish Jungian analyst who has written on body-oriented approaches to analytical psychology — integrating somatic awareness with dream work and active imagination, bringing the body into the analytic space in ways that classical Jungian analysis had sometimes neglected.
Canadian Jungian analyst who wrote Addiction to Perfection, The Pregnant Virgin, and Dancing in the Flames — developing the Jungian understanding of the addicted psyche, the embodied feminine, and the relationship between eating disorders and the rejection of the body — one of the most influential Jungian voices of the late 20th century.
Hungarian psychoanalyst who was Freud's most creative clinical disciple and the analyst of John Rickman, who analyzed Wilfred Bion — developing mutual analysis, the theory of confusion of tongues between adults and children, and the emphasis on genuine empathic presence as the basis of therapeutic action.