Clinical Session with a Woman with Post Brainstem Stroke
Eleanor Criswell Hanna 4-21-2024
In this session, Eleanor will be working with a woman who had a brainstem stroke. You’ll see a video of Eleanor working in person with this client from her office. This demonstration offers us an incredible educational opportunity to increase our Hanna Somatic clinical skills. Eleanor’s demonstration will help us feel more confident about seeing clients with more unusual medical and somatic issues. We’ll have time after the session for Eleanor, and perhaps her client as well, to address our questions and concerns. Enjoy this learning opportunity!
Eleanor Criswell Hanna, EdD, is emeritus professor of psychology and former chair of the psychology department, Sonoma State University. Founding director of the Humanistic Psychology Institute (now Saybrook University, Pasadena, CA), she is editor of Somatics Magazine, the magazine-journal of the mind-body arts and sciences, and director of the Novato Institute for Somatic Research and Training. Her books include Biofeedback and Somatics: Toward Personal Evolution, How Yoga Works: An Introduction to Somatic Yoga, and she is editor of Cram’s Introduction to Surface Electromyography. She is past president and board member of the International Association of Yoga Therapists and is a fellow of the American Psychological Association. She is also on the board of the Association for Hanna Somatic Education and is the originator of Somatic Yoga and Equine Hanna Somatics. Eleanor is the author of "One Woman's Path," The Humanistic Psychologist, an American Psychology Association journal (2022). This is a special issue entitled Being and Becoming: Celebrating Women in Humanistic Psychology. The special issue was sparked by the desire to honor the women of humanistic psychology and the awarding of the first Eleanor Criswell Hanna award celebrating the women of humanistic psychology.