Body psychotherapy

Body psychotherapy,^[1]^[2]^[3]^[4] also called body-oriented psychotherapy, is an approach to psychotherapy^[5] which applies basic principles of somatic psychology. It originated in the work of Pierre Janet, Sigmund Freud and particularly Wilhelm Reich who developed it as vegetotherapy.^[6] Branches also were developed by Alexander Lowen, and John Pierrakos, both patients and students of Reich, like Reichian body-oriented psychotherapy^[7]^[8]^[9] and Gerda Boyesen.^[10]

^ Totton, N. (2003) Body Psychotherapy: An Introduction Open University Press. ISBN 0-335-21038-4 (pb); 0-335-21039-2.
^ Staunton, T. (Ed.) (2002) Body Psychotherapy Brunner Routledge. ISBN 1-58391-115-4 PB0; 1-58391-116-2 (pb)
^ Macnaughton, I. (2004) Body, Breath and Consciousness: A Somatics Anthology, ed. Macnaughton, North Atlantic Books. ISBN 1-55643-496-0 ISBN 978-1-55643-496-9
^ Courtenay Young (2010) article The Science of Body Psychotherapy Today
^ Sharf, R.S. (2011) Theories of Psychotherapy and Counselling p. 600
^ "What is Body Psychotherapy and Somatic Psychology?". USABP.
^ Edward W. L. Smith (1 January 2000). The Body in Psychotherapy. McFarland. p. 16. ISBN 978-0-7864-8181-1.
^ Sharf, Richard (2011). Theories of psychotherapy and counseling: concepts and cases. Belmont, CA: Brooks/Cole. p. 594. ISBN 978-0-8400-3366-6.
^ "History of Bioenergetics The Body Mind Therapy". Body Psych.
^ The ‘New’ Collected Papers of Biodynamic Psychology, Massage & Psychotherapy: 2022 edited by Courtenay Young, ISBN 978-1-908729-23-1 (eBook)