vegetotherapy

Reich advanced from character analysis to vegetotherapy, the prototype of later body psychotherapy.

He was struck by the fundamental differences between characteranalytic vegetotherapy and traditional psychoanalysis.

Subsequently neo-Reichian therapists have adopted the body work of vegetotherapy in various form into their therapeutic practice.

Here he also studied vegetotherapy and the concept of bioenergetics at the Peer Institute.

Reich continued to use the concept as an indicator of a person's health in his later therapeutic methods, such as vegetotherapy.

Dissolving character and muscular rigidifications or armorings is the basic principle of Reichian vegetotherapy.

The practice of vegetotherapy involves the analyst enabling the patient to physically simulate the bodily effects of strong emotions.

To achieve this objective, Reich further developed the psychoanalytic technique: first analysis of resistance, then character analysis, finally, to Vegetotherapy.

Ola Raknes was probably one of the first patients to whom Reich consistently applied his new technique, which he labeled characteranalytic vegetotherapy.

Kraus' theory on bio-electrics is considered to be a forerunner to psychologist Wilhelm Reich's work with biophysics and body psychotherapy (vegetotherapy).

The sexual allegations apart, several people discussed how the vegetotherapy sessions had hurt them physically as children, as therapists pressed hard on certain parts of the body to loosen body armour.

He developed a therapeutic approach he called vegetotherapy that was aimed at opening and releasing this body armor so that free instinctive reflexes-which he considered a token of psychic well-being-could take over.

When the modern breath-oriented therapies were first developed in the 1970s, they were often, as well as the previous spiritual and therapeutic history of breathwork, influenced by ideas from psychotherapy, vegetotherapy or the human potential movement.

The foundational text of vegetotherapy is Wilhelm Reich's Psychischer Kontakt und vegetative Strömung (1935), later included in the enlarged edition of Reich's Character Analysis (1933, 1949).

Apart from the emphasis on gentle unloading through massage she also worked with Wilhelm Reich's vegetotherapy as well as the theories of Jung and Freud, and she continued to develop these into her own method.

In October 1934 he and Lindenberg decided to move to Norway, where Harald K. Schjelderup (1895-1974), professor of psychology at the University of Oslo, had invited him to lecture on character analysis and vegetotherapy.

Body psychotherapy, also called body-oriented psychotherapy or somatic psychology, is a branch of psychotherapy, with origins in the work of Pierre Janet, Sigmund Freud and particularly Wilhelm Reich who developed it as vegetotherapy.

His promotion of sexual permissiveness disturbed the psychoanalytic community and his associates on the political left, and his vegetotherapy, in which he massaged his disrobed patients to dissolve their muscular armour, violated the key taboos of psychoanalysis.

Twitches seems almost the right word, recalling to mind the myoclonisms of Wilhelm Reich's vegetotherapy which, at sometime, are infinitely disturbing to the patient on the couch who, because of them, feels he is falling apart, being shattered into a thousand pieces.

Reich was a significant influence in the founding of Body Psychotherapy (or Somatic Psychology as it is often known in the USA & Australia) - though he called his early work "Character Analysis" and "Character-Analytic Vegetotherapy").

He considered that "orgone physics reduces the emotional functions of man even much further, to the forms of movement of molluscs and protozoa"; and after his claim to have thus discovered orgone or life energy, vegetotherapy was accordingly adapted and succeeded by "psychiatric orgone therapy".