Alan Fogel is a Professor of Psychology at the University of Utah in Salt Lake City. He is the recipient of numerous teaching and research awards, a fellow of the American Psychological Association, and has been a Fulbright fellow. He has been an active contributor to research on social and emotional development for the past 33 years. Read his "Body Sense" blog at Psychology Today.
"[O]ffers a convincing argument to support embodied self-awareness
as an essential ingredient in maintaining homeostasis. . . . This
book will be of interest to somatic practitioners and offers a
comprehensive body-based perspective to verbal
psychotherapists."
*Therapy Today*
"Fogel writes with a depth of knowledge and understanding that is
admirable and which offers the reader a trustworthy and
encyclopaedic reference text for gaining a better sense of how to
both re-cognise and stay in contact with our embodied selves."
*Contemporary Psychotherapy*
"This book is creative and eclectic in that it investigates
embodied self-awareness from many different angles, demonstrating
the intricacy and nuance of the subject, and reinforcing the fact
that expanding embodied self-awareness is a lifetime journey, as
opposed to a straight-forward healing process."
*International Journal of Psychotherapy*
"Fogel draws widely on multidimensional research...all the while
addressing these processes with great understanding and ease. . . .
Fogel goes further than understanding the complex neurobiology of
the human mind by bringing a wealth of information and
understanding to the neurobiology of the body and its
interconnectedness with the mind. He skillfully shifts the domain
of conversation from processes of the mind/brain to the felt sense
of the lived somatic experience."
*Rosen Method International Journal*
"Alan Fogel leads us on an informative journey to “rediscover” our
body’s ability to feel and maintain awareness of our movements,
sensations, and emotions. This innovative book uncovers important
components of our biological directive to improve quality of life
and explores strategies to satisfy that directive by reconnecting
with our bodily selves. Through a greater understanding of
"embodied self-awareness," we can counteract the consequences of
the common developmental trajectory from an infant state of
awareness of our bodily processes to a state of assumed maturity in
which, as adults, we are insensitive to bodily feelings."
*Stephen W. Porges, PhD, author of The Polyvagal Theory*
"With self-help exercises, case vignettes, neuroscience research,
and more, this creative, interactive book provides a sophisticated
yet down-to-earth perspective on what Fogel calls 'embodied
self-awareness.' Readable, wise, lucid, simple and engaging, Body
Sense is a timely and valuable contribution to the field."
*Pat Ogden, PhD, Founder/Director of the Sensorimotor Psychotherapy
Institute*
"The field of what has been termed somatic psychology has burgeoned
in the past two decades. In Body Sense: The Science and Practice of
Embodied Self-Awareness, psychologist and therapeutic body worker
Alan Fogel has highlighted the neurophysiological underpinnings of
body-based therapy by offering us an accessible but encyclopedic
presentation of how the brain and body work together to create
self-awareness. He makes a powerful case for therapists to enlist
clients’ body state perceptions in order to clear the mental and
emotional debris that accompanies trauma. Fogel’s use of science
and compelling clinical case studies to illustrate his ideas make
this a unique and dynamic contribution to the field."
*Robert Scaer, MD, Author of The Trauma Spectrum and 8 Keys to
Brain-Body Balance*
"It is a truly revolutionary act to render our vague, instinctual
knowledge about the body and self-awareness into something
understandable, urgent, and applicable to everyday life. In so
doing, Alan Fogel has laid a solid and comprehensive foundation for
far-reaching changes in psychotherapy, medicine, and our daily
lives."
*Daniel N. Stern, MD, author of The Interpersonal World of the
Infant*
"This book is a rare work in its crossing of two worlds: the
intricate, technical world of psychological and biomedical
research, with its increasingly sophisticated technologies and
languages; and the lived world of becoming mature adults. Alan
Fogel succeeds in weaving together these disparate worlds with his
lucid writing grounded in his thorough understanding both of the
importance of embodied self-awareness in our ordinary lives and the
sciences that make sense of that dimension of our being. It is an
eminently practical book, providing many clues for how we might
expand the benefits of embodiment in negotiating the challenges of
our lives and, at the same time, gain a familiarity with the
scientific basis for their efficacy, thus counteracting inevitable
tendencies toward self-doubt and cynicism."
*Don Hanlon Johnson, PhD, professor of somatics, CIIS and author of
Everyday Hopes, Utopian Dreams: Reflections on American Ideals*
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