Literature

Founding texts

• Wilhelm Reich, Character Analysis (German original Charakteranalyse, 1933) — character and muscular armour; the root of the field.
• Alexander Lowen, Bioenergetics (1975) — Reich’s pupil; bioenergetic analysis.
• Gerda Boyesen, Über den Körper die Seele heilen. Biodynamische Psychologie und Psychotherapie (Munich: Kösel; ISBN 3-466-34167-1) — the founder of biodynamic psychology in her own words (German).
• David Boadella, Lifestreams: An Introduction to Biosynthesis (1987).

Overviews

• Michael C. Heller, Body Psychotherapy: History, Concepts, and Methods (New York: W. W. Norton, 2012).
• Gustl Marlock, Halko Weiss et al. (eds.), The Handbook of Body Psychotherapy and Somatic Psychology (Berkeley: North Atlantic Books, 2015).

Trauma and the body

• Peter A. Levine, Waking the Tiger (1997).
• Bessel van der Kolk, The Body Keeps the Score (2014).

Popular books are a door, not evidence. What is known about how well body-oriented work works is on What We Know, and How Well.

Further: the reading list at vycviky.cz (Czech and other languages, including a bibliography of biodynamic psychology), and the International Body Psychotherapy Journal.