Somatics

Somatics

episodes

Interviews with scholars of Somatics

Andrea Gutiérrez-Glik, "Healing the Oppressed Body: A Therapeutic Guide for Radical Self-Liberation" (Penguin, 2026)

May 12, 2026

Healing the Oppressed Body

Andrea Gutiérrez-Glik
Hosted by Helena Vissing

An essential guide to healing from oppression-based trauma, for everyone left outside of mainstream conversations There are many books on trauma heali…

Clarissa E. Francis, "Black Women's Bodily Autonomy, Sexual Freedom, and Pleasure: Explorations of the Hot Girl Movement" (Routledge, 2025)

February 28, 2026

Black Women's Bodily Autonomy, Sexual Freedom, and Pleasure

Clarissa E. Francis

Black Women's Bodily Autonomy, Sexual Freedom, and Pleasure: Explorations of the Hot Girl Movement (Routledge, 2025) explores scholarship, practice, a…

Erica Lorentz, "Body As Shadow: Jung’s Method of Embodied Healing" (Karnac, 2026)

February 18, 2026

Body As Shadow

Erica Lorentz
Hosted by Helena Vissing

Body as Shadow: Jung’s Method of Embodied Healing is Jungian analyst Erica Lorentz’s passionate, clinically grounded argument that Jung’s psychology w…

Eating Disorders: A Contemporary Introduction

September 5, 2025

Eating Disorders

Tom Wooldridge
Hosted by Helena Vissing

Eating Disorders: A Contemporary Introduction (Taylor & Francis, 2022) presents an accessible introduction to the conceptualization and treatment of e…

Franck Billé, "Somatic States: On Cartography, Geobodies, Bodily Integrity" (Duke UP, 2025)

April 27, 2025

Somatic States

Franck Billé

In Somatic States: On Cartography, Geobodies, Bodily Integrity (Duke UP, 2025), Franck Billé examines the conceptual link between the nation-state and…

Jamieson Webster, "On Breathing: Care in a Time of Catastrophe" (Catapult, 2025)

February 20, 2025

On Breathing

Jamieson Webster
Hosted by Helena Vissing

A few moments after birth we begin to use our lungs for the first time. From then on, we must continue breathing for as long as we are alive. And alth…

Bodies of Culture: Introducing the Center for Black and Indigenous Praxis with Preston Vargas and Deanna Jimenez

June 23, 2024

Bodies of Culture

Preston Vargas and Deanna Jimenez

In this episode we meet Preston Vargas, the director of the Center for Black and Indigenous Praxis, and Deanna Jimenez, Assistant Professor in the Som…

Peter A. Levine, "An Autobiography of Trauma: A Healing Journey" (Park Street Press, 2024)

May 30, 2024

An Autobiography of Trauma

Peter A. Levine
Hosted by Helena Vissing

In An Autobiography of Trauma: A Healing Journey (Park Street Press, 2024), renowned developer of Somatic Experiencing Peter A. Levine shares his pers…

Doris Brothers and Jon Sletvold, "A New Vision of Psychoanalytic Theory, Practice and Supervision: Talking Bodies" (Routledge, 2023)

March 5, 2024

A New Vision of Psychoanalytic Theory, Practice and Supervision

Doris Brothers and Jon Sletvold
Hosted by Helena Vissing

By viewing psychoanalysis through the lens of embodiment, Brothers and Sletvold suggest a shift away from traditional concept-based theory and offer…

Helena Vissing, "Somatic Maternal Healing: Psychodynamic and Somatic Trauma Treatment for Perinatal Mental Health" (Routledge, 2023)

December 27, 2023

Somatic Maternal Healing

Helena Vissing

Today we spoke with Dr. Helena Vissing about her new book Somatic Maternal Healing Psychodynamic and Somatic Trauma Treatment for Perinatal Mental Hea…

Awakening the Body (with Willa Baker)

July 8, 2023

Awakening the Body

Willa Baker
Hosted by Pierce Salguero
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Dr Pierce Salguero sits down with Willa Blythe Baker, a writer, translator, and teacher of meditation based on Himalayan Buddhist tradition. We talk a…

Simon Paul Cox, "The Subtle Body: A Genealogy" (Oxford UP, 2021)

June 15, 2023

The Subtle Body

Simon Paul Cox
Hosted by Raj Balkaran
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How does the soul relate to the body? Through the ages, innumerable religious and intellectual movements have proposed answers to this question. Many …

Marian Dunlea, "Bodydreaming in the Treatment of Developmental Trauma: An Embodied Therapeutic Approach" (Routledge, 2019)

January 27, 2021

Bodydreaming in the Treatment of Developmental Trauma

Marian Dunlea

Winner the 2019 NAAP Gradiva Award and Co- Winner of International Association for Jungian Studies Awards Program for Best Books published in 2019, M…