The Art of Loving as Tree. Me, You and Us

Book excerpt: This book is a reflection of the author's clinical and human experience as a Clinical Psychologist and Somatic Psychoterapist for Couples, as well as of heart experience as a Woman. The book is a divided in two parts. The firts part is shaped as a novel and tells us the story of the therapeutic sessions of several couples, their complaits, requests and suffering, as well as their psychoterapist Laura. The second part is more clinical, with ideas, tools, exercises and important figures that can be very useful for Psichotherapists, Psichologists, Doctors and Students of these areas, as wellas to any Professional in the Social Intervention fielt. It is mostly a book which goal is to expand the awareness, by identifying the "mines and traps" that make it difficult for us to find a balance between being "together" and "apart", as well as "giving" and "receiving" Love with Soul, Heart and Simplicity. "Living is simple; the hard thing is to be simple". The goal was to use a less clinical language, more accessible to everyone, so that the message could be better conveyed, by making the reading easier for all of those that are not related to this area. Being a psychotherapist, and especially a body pychotherapist has to be continuously waching himself, since his body is also a work instrument that gives much information about what is happening in the room or with the client... The psychotherapist needs to know how to move, touch, put, be in resonance, tell the difference between what is his tone of voice, gestures and look. Everything can affect the other. It is a very different scenario than the one that Laura got used to when she was only a clinical psychologist. The more she moves forward in her professional career the more she realizes that leaming has no end and that the evolution must be constant. As a psychologist the meeting was more clinical, more with the purpose of diagnosing, mostly using cognitive tools or test betteries...