19. Emotions and the Body

Description

Explores the relationship between the components of the autonomic nervous system, particularly under stressful conditions, laying the groundwork for approaches such as deep breathing, meditation, yoga, etc.

• HANDOUT: The Body and Stress
• RESOURCE: Alexithymia and Psychosomatic Illness: Focus on the inability to give words to feelings – alexithymia – as contributor to wide variety of physical and psychosomatic illnesses.