The following case study provides a real-life clinical example of using the ISP™ approach to stop panic attacks quickly. The work with a young woman suffering from panic attacks is an excerpt from the book The Practice of Embodying Emotions by Raja Selvam. Petra started having panic attacks at the age of seven. As […]
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I experienced much difficulty in accessing my emotions and regulating them, and in sensing my body, both as an academic in business before I became interested in formal training in psychology and during my subsequent education and training to become a licensed clinical psychologist. This motivated me to study the findings of research on emotions […]
The 7-Step Protocol for Embodying Emotion is one of the core clinical strategies in Integral Somatic Psychology™ (ISP™). The practice is taught during the ISP Professional Training, with concrete steps and tools for how one might go about “embodying emotions”, or building a greater capacity for tolerating emotions through expansion of its conscious experience to as […]
Embodied attunement is the ability to experience in our bodies emotions in the bodies of others. The article explores how we can develop this important capacity. Attunement, embodied attunement, and affect regulation The ability of the primary caregiver to regulate a child’s emotional states has been found to be of central importance in the formation […]
The paper offers a definition of affect tolerance, discusses three important factors that drive it, and their implications for improving the work with emotions in all therapeutic modalities. What is affect tolerance? Why is it important? Dr. Robert Stolorow, who has co-authored many books on the inter-subjective approach to psychoanalysis from whom I was fortunate […]
