Couples and Body Therapy

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by  Brothers, Barbara Jo

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Couples and Body Therapy
Couples and Body Therapy has been co-published simultaneously
as Journal of Couples Therapy, Volume 10, Number 2 2001.
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Couples
and Body Therapy
Barbara Jo Brothers
Editor
Couples and Body Therapy has been co-published simultaneously
as Journal of Couples Therapy, Volume 10, Number 2 2001.
Routledge
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN 0-7890-1654-0 (alk. paper)-ISBN 0-7890-1655-9 (alk. paper)
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Couples and Body Therapy
CONTENTS
Preface xiii
Virginia Satir and Body-Mind-Soul 1
Barbara Jo Brothers
Grounding in Couples Core Energetic Therapy 17
MaryJ. Giuffra
Core Energetic Couples Therapy: An Integrated Approach 25
KaryneB. Wilner
Sexuality and Intimacy in Couples Therapy:
The Journey of the Soul 35
Jacqueline A. Carleton
Keeping It Up 43
Marcel A. Duclos
Couples Therapy as a Formative Process 49
Stanley Keleman
Sylvia Adler
Touch in Psychotherapy 61
Pauline Rose Clance
Earl C. Brown
Body Psychotherapy with Couples: Using the Seven
Developmental Stages Model of Bodynamic Analysis 75
Anne Isaacs
Joel Isaacs
Working Experientially and Somatically with Couples 91
Robert M. Fisher
Method Acting and Gestalt Therapy with Couples 107
James Pugh
Bree Patrick Luck
Edward W. L. Smith
Index 115
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ABOUT THE EDITOR
Barbara Jo Brothers, MSW, BCD, a Diplomate in Clinical Social Work, Na­
tional Association of Social Workers, is in private practice in New Orleans.
She received her BA from the University of Texas and her MSW from Tulane
University, where she is currently on the faculty. She was Editor of The News­
letter of the American Academy of Psychotherapists from 1976 to 1985, and
was Associate Editor of Voices: The Art and Science of Psychotherapy from
1979 to 1989. She has 30 years of experience, in both the public and private
sectors, helping people to form skills that will enable them to connect emotion­
ally. The author of numerous articles and book chapters on authenticity in hu­
man relating, she has advocated healthy, congruent communication that builds
intimacy as opposed to destructive, incongruent communication which blocks
intimacy. In addition to her many years of direct work with couples and fami­
lies, Ms. Brothers has led numerous workshops on teaching communication in
families and has also played an integral role in the development of training pro­
grams in family therapy for mental health workers throughout the Louisiana
state mental health system. She is a board member of the Institute for Interna­
tional Connections, a non-profit organization for cross-cultural professional
development focused on training and cross-cultural exchange with psycho­
therapists in Russia, in republics once part of what used to be the Soviet Union,
and other Eastern European countries.
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Preface
Mary Giuffra, Director of Research at the Institute for Core Energetics,
mid-wifed much of this volume. Concerned about components too often
ignored in psychotherapy-spirituality and the body-Giuffra set about find­
ing, among a wide range of experts, many of the authors in this collection.
Giuffra’s many years of experience in a variety of modes of psychotherapy
have made her aware of the critical importance of involving the whole person
in the therapy process. Body and spirit and mind are all one package. It is the
task of the therapist to be part of a process of the restoration of essential
harmony among the various facets of a given human being. Such integration
is prerequisite to a constructive relationship between a couple. Mary Giuffra
feels a responsibility to the mental health community, and to their patients, to
raise consciousness about these facts.
Her own article traces her evolution from obstetric and pediatric nurse to
Core Energetics therapist. She makes clear the basis and evidence for her
belief in the importance of Core Energetics modality. We are indebted to her
for sharing the fruits of her rich journey with us.
I am very grateful to Mary Giuffra for all the energy she used in helping to
create Couples and Body Therapy.
Barbara Jo Brothers, Editor
[Haworth co-indexing entry note]: “Preface.” Brothers, Barbara Jo. Co-published simultaneously in
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