Introduction

For more than two decades the Chiron Centre for Body Psychotherapy, London, provided professional training for body psychotherapists, and engaged in an active process of research, dialogue and debate to develop an embodied, integral and relational approach to psychotherapy. This book was conceived as a way to mark and honour the unique work of the Chiron Centre as founding directors Bernd Eiden and Jochen Lude move towards retirement, and the Centre brings to a close its function as a professional training organisation.