ABSTRACT
The chapter describes body psychotherapy for healing developmental trauma. Trauma affects the body and is encoded physically, often out of awareness, and yet, can drive present relationships. The theoretical themes of the chapter are illustrated by clinical work with “Vera,” a composite client whose traumatic early life showed in her breathing, muscle tone, inability to regulate her feelings, and physiology, and restrictions in the flow of basic movement patterns (motoric fields). The importance of embodied relating, recognising “latent potential,” and self and interactive regulation are central themes discussed.
