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Different Bodies Nick Totton

Different Bodies By Nick Totton

Different Bodies by Nick Totton


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Summary

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'.

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Different Bodies: Deconstructing normality by Nick Totton

'A revolution is underway in how we think about human variation. It has the potential to transform the social and political landscape, sweeping away walls and fences that stop so many people from fully participating. Psychotherapy should be in the vanguard of this revolution, but it isn't,' writes Nick Totton in this bold analysis of human difference. His aim is to challenge and also help the reader who self-defines as 'normal'- be they talking therapist, body therapist, client or anyone else - to interrogate their own normality, and hopefully to relinquish the word and all the privileges it brings. It is time, he writes, 'to dismantle that identity, pull down that statue, abandon that high plinth and rest on the solid ground of difference'. Then, he argues, psychotherapy practitioners may be in a position to learn from their clients how best to work with them.The book addresses differences of bodily capacity, gender and lifestyle differences, differences of skin colour and neuro differences. It also tackles differences between the human and non-human beings who inhabit the Earth. Totton's call is for recognition that we share this planet, and that creating standards of 'normality' leads to exclusion as well as inclusion, with all the psychological and other harms that brings.

About Nick Totton

Nick Totton has been a body psychotherapist since 1981, and an ecopsychologist since 2004. He has previously authored 11 books, including Wild Therapy (now in its second edition), Body Psychotherapy for the 21st Century and Psychotherapy and Politics, and edited several others, including Vital Signs: Psychological responses to ecological crisis (with Mary-Jayne Rust). Nick has developed trainings in two new forms of therapy - Embodied-Relational Therapy and Wild Therapy, both of which are now being continued by other trainers. He has a grown-up daughter and two grandchildren, and lives in Sheffield with his partner.

Table of Contents

Introduction, Part 1 - Making a difference, 1. Normality creates difference, 2. Able - to do what? 3. Every body is different (differently) Implications for Therapy - Part 1, Part 2 - Other-wise, 4. Bodies of thought, 5. Different other-wisdoms, 6. Every body is other-wise, Implications for Therapy - Part 2, Part 3 - Becoming plural, 7. Gender trouble, 8. No one is just one, 9. Multiple choice, Implications for Therapy - Part 3, Part 4 - Becoming animal, 10. Homo superior? 11. Joining In, 12. Unseparate, Implications for Therapy - Part 4, Conclusion

Additional information

GOR013732617
9781915220318
1915220319
Different Bodies: Deconstructing normality by Nick Totton
Used - Very Good
Paperback
PCCS Books
2023-07-20
280
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