Clinical Intuition in Psychotherapy—The Neurobiology of Embodied Response

In this study of clinical intuition from a neurobiological perspective, Marks-Tarlow integrates 30 years of clinical practice with her passion for nonlinear transformation and the neurology of empathy. She explores the gap that clinical intuition fills between theory and practice, how bodies and not just brains direct our habits of thought and feeling, empathy and the mammalian limbic brain, how play and humor can serve as a ground for intimate communication and personal agency that clinicians can utilize, the role of imagination and embodied metaphor in clinical intuition and therapeutic change, the developmental foundations for intuition in the exploration of physical and social space, and finally how clinical intuition helps develop and express wisdom that can resonate throughout our lives. Art and imaginative expression are recurring motifs in the book, reflected in many examples of both patient and non-patient art. Each chapter presents composite and fictionalized cases reproduced with patient permission, and conclude with a "wrap-up." Marks-Tarlow is a clinical psychologist and teacher of affective neuroscience at the Reiss Davis Child Study Center. Annotation Ac2012 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)