Description
While touching a patient during a routine physical examination, the author, a chiropractor, unintentionally evoked in the woman a forgotten memory of incest experienced 25 years earlier. And so a powerful personal experience gave birth to new therapeutic possibility. For Dr. Ford a new path opened wide, and now time and again professional practice confirmed the importance of his emerging approach. He calls it "somatosynthesis" to signal the uniqueness of this process of healing. which brings psychological and spiritual therapies together with the principles and practices of therapeutic touch.
A wealth of case studies, fascinating in themselves, illustrates how Dr. Ford has used this dramatic therapy, based on touch rather than talk, to ease physical and emotional pain and to help his patients find meaning and purpose in their lives. He also shows the reader how to create "body maps" relating specific areas of the body to emotional, psychological, and spiritual issues.
Healing professionals, less and less willing to ignore the role of the body in therapy, will find in this book a rich source of ideas and techniques; people interested in therapy as a personal option will discover a new kind of guidance; general readers will find it simply inspirational. A gifted writer, Dr. Ford's commitment to opening further our vision of body/ mind cannot fail to make a difference in how we use the experience of touch.
ISBN:0882680803
