Awakening Clinical Intuition: An Experiential Workbook for Psychotherapists (Norton Series on Interpersonal Neurobiology)

Author: Terry Marks-TarlowPublisher: W. W. Norton & CompanyPaperback:ISBN 10: 0393708683ISBN 13: 978-0393708684Exercises to help mental health practitioners at all levels of experience recognize gut feelings and produce deep therapeutic change.2015 Gradiva Award Nomination for Best Book When immersed in therapy with a patient, clinicians are guided not only by conscious, explicit dialogues and intellectual investigation, but also by natural flows of emotion, energy, and body-based information―hunches, gut feelings, behavioral impulses. These natural flows are the foundation of clinical intuition, the right-brain means by which therapists perceive and respond to relational patterns and non-conscious signals during psychotherapy. In Clinical Intuition in Psychotherapy, Terry Marks-Tarlow bridged art and science to explain the essential role of clinical intuition in transforming traumatized brains into healthy minds. Here, Marks-Tarlow walks through a series of exercises to help thera