Body Oriented Therapies
Cross-Disciplinary Organisations
- European
Association for Body Psychotherapy
- US Association
for Body Psychotherapy
-
Reichian, Post Reichian, Neo Reichian
- PORE: Public
Orgone Research Exchange
- Excellent and extensive site on Reichian and post
Reichian therapies and researches.
- The Chiron Centre
- Leading British training organisation in body psychotherapy. Much material.
- Institute of
Biodynamic Psychology and Psychotherapy
- 'An organisation based in the UK which maintains
standards, provides training in, and publicizes
... a holistic approach to the healing of body
and mind based on the work of the Norwegian
psychologist Gerda Boyesen ... drawing on Jungian
and Reichian approaches to treatment of both
physical and psychological diseases (sic).' Two
further biodynamic sites:
- Die
biodynamische Psychologie
- (In German)
- Biodynamic
and Transpersonal Psychotherapy Training in
Ireland
- International
Institute for Bioenergetic Analysis Home Page
- Site for Alexander Lowen's Bioenergetics. Useful
and informative articles.
- Biosynthesis
- Description of David Boadella's style of bodywork
from the Brazilian Institute for Biosynthesis.
- ORGONizando
- Brazilian Reichian site
- Postural
Integration
- Consists of an article by Jack W Painter,
'Postural Integration, Transformation of the
Whole Self' (27k). PI is a form of neo-reichian
bodywork.
- Radix
- A neo-reichian therapy developed by Charles
Kelly. Official site for the Radix organisation
worldwide.
- Babette
Rothschild
- Developer of Somatic Trauma Therapy.
- American
College of Orgonomy 'Official' Reichian site.
- Australian
College of Contemporary Somatic Psychotherapy
- Reichian
Growth Work: Melting the Blocks to Life and Love
- Complete internet book by Nick Totton and Em
Edmondson.
- About
Stanley Keleman
- One of the leading post reichian figures.
- Institute
of Core Energetics
- Founded by John Pierrakos, associate of Lowen who
linked Reichian work with subtle energy.
Primal
Therapy
- The
Primal Psychotherapy Page
- A lot more than a page! - an enormous set of
resources on all forms and aspects of primal
work.
- South
African Primal Support Page
- Emerson
Training Seminars Home Page
- Birth
Psychology
Other forms of body therapy
- Emotions
and biofeedback WITHOUT instruments
- 'Based on the fact that one does not need to
restrict oneself to feedback from instruments.
One can also attend to any internal information
the senses can detect: tensions, pain,
fluctutation of the voice, etc ... Any process
can be influenced, Even habits, 'personality
factors and other 'psycho-pathologies'. Israeli
practitioner. Several long articles etc
available, including research material.
- The Focusing
Institute
- 'Focusing is a kind of inward bodily attention
that a few people have naturally, but which most
people don't yet know about. ... It is a way of
getting a body sense - we call it a FELT SENSE -
of how you are in a particular life situation.'
- Association
for Holotropic Breathwork International
- An introduction to this form of deep
bodyspiritwork developed by Stanislaf and
Christina Grof, using breath to access altered
states. Many links and workshop details. There
are a lot of sites about this form of work, but
they all seem to be linked to each other, so
explore for yourself.
- Pesso Boyden
System Psychomotor
- 'A Body Oriented Psychotherapy - An Emotional
Re-education Process - An Executive Leadership
Fulfillment Process'.
- The
Logic of Magical Thought and The Dance of the
Breath
- Complete internet book on Rebirthing.
- Rebirthing
- Short article by Paul Sakey, a practitioner in
London, UK.
- Self-Care
Archives: A Field Guide to Body Work- HealthWorld
Online
- Includes material on body psychotherapy.
- Systemic
Integration
- 'SI may be considered a holistic psychotherapy:
it sorts out character rigidities not only
facilitating the release of energy and emotions,
but also by a work of re-normalization of boith
abdominal and global body-mind functioning,
promotion of well-being and resolution of the
inhibition of action syndrome.' (Italy)
Cross references
- Causal
Release System Training
- Embodied-Relational Therapy
- About
Hakomi TherapyThe
Naropa Institute - Somatic Psychology
- Clair
Oaks: Pre and Perinatal Counseling
- Process
Therapy Institute Home Page
- Carlos
Castaneda's Tensegrity
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