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Section 2. Current Applications

Touching and Holding during Regressive Therapy

Pages 57-64
Published online: 28 Dec 2017
 
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This article relates the experiences of clients regarding the value, for them, of being touched and held during portions of their psychotherapeutic work. The character of this aspect of their contact was nurturing, supportive, empathic, soothing, and loving. The contract may have been simply to experience what this can be like. It more often was part of creating a new experience of safe intimacy as early traumatic experiences were being identified, released, and repatterned.

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John W. Rhinehart

John W. Rhinehart, M.D., is a practicing psychiatrist, psychotherapist, and director of Deep Brook Center, a holistic center for innovative psychotherapies and nutrition in Newtown, Connecticut.