Wilhelm Reich
Wilhelm Reich — Character Analysis
Character structure, muscular armoring, and the body as memory. Reich opened the somatic dimension of depth psychology.
Schools & Therapeutic Approaches
Wilhelm Reich opened a door. Four lineages walk through it.
Gerda Boyesen
Gerda Boyesen — Biodynamic Psychotherapy
The fluid body, psychoperistalsis, and the therapeutic relationship as resonance. Boyesen's biodynamic approach integrates verbal and body work.
Alexander Lowen
Alexander Lowen — Bioenergetics
Grounding, energetic charge and discharge, and the language of the body. Lowen developed Reich's work into a systematic somatic practice.
David Boadella
David Boadella — Biosynthesis
Three fields of life — charge, movement, expression — and the embryological arc. Boadella's Biosynthesis bridges body, soul, and spirit.
Further Approaches & Concepts
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Stanley Keleman — Formative Psychology
The living body as a self-forming process — how anatomical shape, postural organization, and somatic pulsation generate psychological form.
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Peter Levine — Somatic Experiencing
Trauma as incomplete defensive response — renegotiating the freeze cycle and restoring the natural flow of instinctive survival energy.
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Character structures
Schizoid, oral, masochistic, psychopathic, rigid — body types as maps of developmental adaptation and therapeutic entry points.
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Touch in therapy
The ethics and technique of therapeutic touch — contact as intervention, boundary, and relational communication.
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Breathwork
Breath as a bridge between voluntary and autonomic — approaches from Reichian breathing to rebirthing and conscious connected breath.
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Movement & dance therapy
Expressive movement, authentic movement, and dance as vehicle for somatic self-discovery and interpersonal attunement.
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