Reichian Growth Work
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Revised and updated edition of this body psychotherapy classic. Sets out to convey the essential features of Reichian Therapy in concrete and easily understandable language.




Revised and updated edition of this body psychotherapy classic. Sets out to convey the essential features of Reichian Therapy in concrete and easily understandable language.
Body Psychotherapy for the 21st Century looks at the wider psychotherapy field, bringing awareness of embodiment into what has been a verbally oriented profession. Engaging with neuroscience, phenomenology and cognitive studies, as well as the relational turn in psychotherapy.
This book celebrates wildness, both in global ecosystems and in the human psyche. Drawing on psychotherapy, philosophy, ecology, anthropology, futuristic fiction and much other literature, he shows the links between domesticated civilisation and the destruction of the innate balance of ecosystems.
A revolution is underway in how we think about human variation. It has the potential to transform the society and politics. Psychotherapy should be in the vanguard of this revolution. In this book, Totton aims to challenge and also help the reader, be they talking therapist, body therapist, client or anyone, to interrogate their own 'normality'.