From reviews of The Embodied Self Movement and Psychoanalysis
"Katya Bloom is 'bilingual', fluent in the languages of body and mind.
The Embodied Self, explores the language of emotion as manifested in the body... [This book] teaches us grammar, and we become adept at speaking with our bodies and our minds in the art and science of healing."
-- American Psychological Association Newsletter
"Bloom has achieved a three dimensional work that includes inviting conscious shifts into the reader's bodily experience while reading. In describing her patient-therapist interactions with such artistry, Bloom enables us to live the experience and achieve embodied knowledge."
-- Virginia Reed, President of the Laban/Bartenieff Institute of Movement Studies Faculty, Dance Movement Therapy Program, Pratt University, New York
"Katya Bloom beautifully describes ways of sinking into the body-self to discover the most painful, repressed and neglected layers of the infantile psyche. This highly recommended book is essential reading for therapists and hospital professionals who need to develop more comprehensive understanding of the often neglected primitive spontaneous gestures of the body-self which are not yet able to be put into verbal dialogues."
-- Dr Jeanne Magagna, Ellern Mede Centre for Eating Disorders; Head of Psychotherapy Services, Great Ormond Street Hospital, London
"Central to her approach is how she works with the somatic counter-transference which she also refers to as 'embodied attentiveness'. The working through of conflicts deeply rooted in body-based processes in early childhood helped the patients to transform their internal worlds and their interpersonal relationships."
-- Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy
"She seems able to 'listen' to her patients' movements and words without one modality being valued above another. By synthesising the two aspects of the human being, body and psyche, it presents not only new thinking, but also deeper understanding of the therapeutic process."
-- American Journal of Dance Therapy
"The content [of The Embodied Self] is complex, rich, and potentially challenging to current ways of clinical thinking."
-- The Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease
"The Embodied Self is most surely the book Dance and Movement Psychotherapists have all been waiting for. Never before have the strands of free association in movement and the theory of psychoanalysis been brought together in quite this imaginative way or articulated with such clarity."
-- E-motion, Journal of the Association of Dance Movement Therapy-UK
"Bloom's book is highly recommended for dance/movement therapists, body psychotherapists, authentic movement practitioners and clinicians who respect and value the place of body and movement in the psychotherapeutic encounter... Bloom's work opens new pathways for cross-fertilization..."
-- Arts in Psychotherapy
"This book should be required reading for students in psychoanalytic training as well as for those being trained in somatic and movement therapy."
-- PsycCritiques
"Bloom's book takes the reader into a fascinating exploration of how the language of movement can enhance therapy for both infants and adults…. Bloom's work on transference will significantly advance the understanding of the therapeutic community in these areas and is a worthy addition to the field."
-- Psychotherapy and Politics International
The Embodied Self, explores the language of emotion as manifested in the body... [This book] teaches us grammar, and we become adept at speaking with our bodies and our minds in the art and science of healing."
-- American Psychological Association Newsletter
"Bloom has achieved a three dimensional work that includes inviting conscious shifts into the reader's bodily experience while reading. In describing her patient-therapist interactions with such artistry, Bloom enables us to live the experience and achieve embodied knowledge."
-- Virginia Reed, President of the Laban/Bartenieff Institute of Movement Studies Faculty, Dance Movement Therapy Program, Pratt University, New York
"Katya Bloom beautifully describes ways of sinking into the body-self to discover the most painful, repressed and neglected layers of the infantile psyche. This highly recommended book is essential reading for therapists and hospital professionals who need to develop more comprehensive understanding of the often neglected primitive spontaneous gestures of the body-self which are not yet able to be put into verbal dialogues."
-- Dr Jeanne Magagna, Ellern Mede Centre for Eating Disorders; Head of Psychotherapy Services, Great Ormond Street Hospital, London
"Central to her approach is how she works with the somatic counter-transference which she also refers to as 'embodied attentiveness'. The working through of conflicts deeply rooted in body-based processes in early childhood helped the patients to transform their internal worlds and their interpersonal relationships."
-- Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy
"She seems able to 'listen' to her patients' movements and words without one modality being valued above another. By synthesising the two aspects of the human being, body and psyche, it presents not only new thinking, but also deeper understanding of the therapeutic process."
-- American Journal of Dance Therapy
"The content [of The Embodied Self] is complex, rich, and potentially challenging to current ways of clinical thinking."
-- The Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease
"The Embodied Self is most surely the book Dance and Movement Psychotherapists have all been waiting for. Never before have the strands of free association in movement and the theory of psychoanalysis been brought together in quite this imaginative way or articulated with such clarity."
-- E-motion, Journal of the Association of Dance Movement Therapy-UK
"Bloom's book is highly recommended for dance/movement therapists, body psychotherapists, authentic movement practitioners and clinicians who respect and value the place of body and movement in the psychotherapeutic encounter... Bloom's work opens new pathways for cross-fertilization..."
-- Arts in Psychotherapy
"This book should be required reading for students in psychoanalytic training as well as for those being trained in somatic and movement therapy."
-- PsycCritiques
"Bloom's book takes the reader into a fascinating exploration of how the language of movement can enhance therapy for both infants and adults…. Bloom's work on transference will significantly advance the understanding of the therapeutic community in these areas and is a worthy addition to the field."
-- Psychotherapy and Politics International