Working With Parents and Infants: A Mind-Body Integration Approach

Originally bearing the subtitle, “A Psyche-Soma Integration
Approach,” the published subtitle of this new book teaches a quick
translation of these Greek-derived technical words. Additionally,
Sansone tells us that “soma” is a Greek word referring to “the living
body in its wholeness.” She states, “Whatever we experience in and
through the body forms our somatic reality…. When any expressions
of the living body are suppressed, the wholeness and harmony of our
somatic reality is undermined. And so [too] is the psyche, as psyche
and soma belong to each other.” This book gives clear exposition and
understanding of the intertwining of psyche and soma (a relationship
understood by the founders of the Santa Barbara Graduate Institute,
who offer a program based on both psychology and soma studies).