ABSTRACT
This conclusion presents some closing thoughts on the concepts discussed in the preceding chapters of this book. The book starts with the primary intention of conveying one point: that everything in psychotherapy is founded on and grows out of embodied relating. Ultimately, though, it is there already: this omnipresent medium which can move readily between extreme strength and extreme delicacy, between hardness and softness, between connecting and separating, is in fact the subject embodied relating. Embodied relating does not just happen in the therapy room: like connective tissue, it runs through everything, connects and separates all of us and every aspect of life, very definitely including the social and the political. Wilhelm Reich worked centrally with the embodied relationship, and that he saw it as embedded in a sociopolitical matrix. Having addressed body psychotherapists, the book discusses practitioners whose work is—consciously—mainly with verbal interaction.
