301 Like the rest of our society, the therapy profession has been enthralled with the power of words?often words about emotions and bodily sensations?as the one legitimate way of helping our clients improve. But new discoveries in fields such as brain science, psychoneuroimmunology, and exercise physiology have shown how much our mental health is related to our experience of our physical bodies. This panel will examine what lessons the 75-year-old field of somatic psychotherapy, often considered a somewhat exotic cousin of conventional approaches, has to offer the broader mental health field. We'll look at the applications of body psychotherapy in more mainstream practice and how the increasing interest in the mind-body connection will shape the clinical methods of the future.