The Handbook of Body Psychotherapy and Somatic Psychology Hardcover - 2015

Gustl Marlock has nearly 30 years of experience as a psychotherapist; he is the director of a German training program in Unitive/Integrative Body Psychotherapy and a lecturer and supervisor for psychodynamic psychotherapy at the Wiesbaden Academy for Psychotherapy. Halko Weiss, PhD, is a clinical psychologist and lecturer for the University of Marburg and for the Bavarian Chamber of Psychotherapists. He is a cofounder of the Hakomi Institute in Boulder, Colorado. Courtenay Young was originally trained in Body Psychotherapy at the Gerda Boyesen Centre in London (1979­-1983) and also with David Boadella and others. He then moved to Scotland and was the resident psychotherapist for 17 years at the Findhorn Foundation, an international spiritual community. He has been both general secretary and president of the European Association of Body Psychotherapy (EABP) and was made an EABP Honorary Member in 2010; he is also a member of USABP; and, in 2011, he founded Body Psychotherapy Publications to produce a new series of edited books. He lives near Edinburgh in Scotland and works in both the National Health Service and privately, being registered as a psychotherapist with the UKCP and with EAP. The author and editor of several books, he was the lead writer on The EAP's Project to Establish the Professional Competencies of a European Psychotherapist (www.psychotherapy-competency.eu), and he is currently Editor of the International Journal of Psychotherapy (www.ijp.org.uk). Michael Soth is an integral-relational Body Psychotherapist, trainer, and supervisor (UKCP), with more than 20 years' experience in practicing and teaching from an integrative perspective. He was Training Director at the Chiron Centre for Body Psychotherapy from 1992 to 2010.