Bøker av Nick Totton

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'.

What is bohemia? What roles has it played in our past -- and how might it be important to our present and future? Sailing to Bohemia is the first scholarly attempt to survey the whole global history of bohemianism, and try to give some unity to what is at first sight a very confusing field.It tells the story of bohemianism in its many forms, and also of various precursors which did not use that name but which expressed the same impulse: the rejection of enforced wage labour, and the desire for a society based on creativity, mutual aid and direct relationship. Sailing to Bohemia argues that bohemia is a continuous potential in human society, like a gene that will be expressed in any suitable environment; and that its world view is a significant third way distinct from both dominant and working class cultures.

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.

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.

Collected together for the first time, articles and chapters from the archive of Nick Totton. Discussing the politics of psychotherapy, his themes include democracy, equality, professionalization and regulation, pluralism, boundaries and ecopsychology. A collection that will make you think.

The space of the paranormal can indeed be frightening. But psychoanalysis specializes in entering and tolerating frightening spaces. Why should this one be an exception? Nick Totton from the Foreword

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.

This collection of ground-breaking work by practitioners at the forefront of contemporary body psychotherapy enriches the whole therapy world. It explores the leading edge of theory and practice, including Neuroscientific contributions, Movement patterns and infant development, and Embodied-Relational Therapy.

Explores the links between therapy and the political world, and their contribution to each other. This collection covers topics such as psychotherapy in the political sphere, including the roots of conflict, social trauma, and ecopsychology and political dimensions of psychotherapy practice, such as discrimination, power, and sexuality.

Body psychotherapy is an holistic therapy which approaches human beings as united bodymind, and offers embodied relationship as its central therapeutic stance. This title examines the field of body psychotherapy. It surveys the various forms of body psychotherapy. It defines central concepts of the field, and the skills needed by practitioners.

Documenting instances where ideas from psychotherapy have been incorporated into the political agenda, this book demonstrates the practical value of psychotherapy as an instigator of social and political change. Related to this, attempts to understand and evaluate political life through the application of psychotherapeutic concepts are examined.

Surveys how different schools of therapy approach a basic topic, and the differences that exist between people. This book examines the use of typologies of character and personality as a clinical tool; and offers general criteria for judging the merits of particular personality systems, as well as exploring the possibility of a wider synthesis.