8 Guest Editorial
Jan Winhall
10 Treating Addiction, Trauma and Emotional Loss Together
A Clinical and Historical Perspective
Gabor Maté
13 Revolutionizing Addiction Treatment with The Felt Sense Polyvagal Model™
Jan Winhall, Stephen W. Porges
32 Embodied Presence
The Essential Therapeutic Stance in Working with Addictive Behaviors
Nancy Falls
43 Treating the Heart of Addiction in Women with Focusing and Chinese Medicine
Dawn Flynn
53 A Non-Directive Positive Reinforcement Framework for Trauma and Addiction Treatment
Steve Hoskinson, Back Ho
RESEARCH
66 The Somatic Post-Encounter Clinical Summary (SPECS)
A New Instrument for Practitioners and Researchers to Measure the Wisdom of Somatic Intelligence
Aaron Freedman, Theresa Silow, Steuart Gold, Thomas Pope, Denise Saint Arnault
76 Developing Relational Trauma Therapy
From the Breakdown of the “Running Technique” to a New Trauma Methodology
Kolbjørn Vårdal
CLINICAL PRACTICE
82 Borderline Disorder in Contemporary Reichian Analysis
Genovino Ferri, Luisa Barbato
GETTING TO KNOW REICH
105 The Origins of Body Psychotherapy
The Concept of Character from Freud to Reich
Håvard Friis Nilsen
BODY PSYCHOTHERAPY AROUND THE WORLD
110 Being a Body Psychotherapist in Britain
Kathrin Stauffer
PERSONAL VIEWPOINT
114 My Encounter with Covid-19 Mobilizing the Will to Live
Vladimir Pozharashki
BOOK REVIEWS
118 The Practice of Embodying Emotion: A Method for Improving Cognitive, Emotional,
and Behavioral Outcomes by Raja Selvam, Ian Macnaughton
121 Treating Trauma and Addiction with the Felt Sense Polyvagal Model: A Bottom-Up
Approach by Jan Winhall, Michael D. Ostrolenk
123 The Proactive Twelve Steps: A Mindful Program for Lasting Change by
Serge Prengel, Jan Winhall
INTERNATIONAL BODY PSYCHOTHERAPY JOURNAL
Published by the European & United States Associations
for Body Psychotherapy & Somatic Psychology
Volume 21 Number 1 Spring/Summer 2022
The Art and Science of Somatic Praxis