Being with the Body in Depth Psychology

Barbara Holifield synthesizes somatic psychology, infant research, affective neuroscience, and Jungian depth work to foreground the bodily basis of psychic development and trauma.

The book argues that early relational disruptions are embodied and that recovery requires working with the felt sense, sensory perception, and intersubjective resonance.

Clinical vignettes and group practices (including authentic movement) illustrate how attending to bodily-felt experience opens access to implicit relational memory and the creative unconscious.

Holifield describes therapeutic principles for clinicians to integrate embodied methods with relational psychoanalytic attunement.

The work aims for deep psychophysical transformation that reconnects meaning, feeling, and aliveness beyond symptom relief.