Somatic psychology or, more precisely, "Somatic Clinical Psychotherapy" is a form of psychotherapy that focuses on somatic experience, including therapeutic and holistic approaches to the body. Somatic Clinical Psychotherapy seeks to explore and heal mental and physical injury and trauma through body awareness and movement. Wilhelm Reich is the first who tried to develop a clear psychodynamic approach that included the body. [1][2] Several types of body-oriented psychotherapies trace their origins back to Reich, though there have been many subsequent developments and other influences on body psychotherapy and somatic psychology is of particular interest in trauma work. Somatic psychology seeks to describe, explain, and understand the nature of embodied consciousness and bridge the Cartesian mind-body dichotomy. [3][4]

References

  1. ↑ Heller, M. (2012) Body Psychotherapy, W. W. Norton & Company, ISBN 9780393706697
  2. ↑ Geuter, U., Heller, M. C., & Weaver, J. O. (2010) “Reflections on Elsa Gindler and her influence on Wilhelm Reich and body psychotherapy”, Body, Movement and Dance in Psychotherapy, vol. 5, 1, pp. 59–73
  3. ↑ Moskowitz, A., Schafer, I., & Dorahy, M.J. (Eds)(2008) Psychosis, Trauma and Dissociation: Emerging Perspectives on Severe Psychopathology. Wiley, Blackwell.ISBN 978-0-470-51173-2 (See esp. Chap. 7., re P. Janet on hallucinations, paranoia, & schizophrenia.)
  4. ↑ Ogden, P., Minton, K. & Pain, C. (2006) Trauma and the Body: A sensorimotor approach to psychotherapy. W. W. Norton. ISBN 978-0-393-70457-0

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Shane, P. (2023). Principles of Somatic Psychology: An Evidence-Based, Transdisciplinary Approach for the Holistic Healthcare Professions. Center for Bodymind Education. ISBN 978-166788-590-2<ref>

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