Somatic Psychotherapy Training in
Contemporary Orgone (Reichian) Therapy
Module 1 syllabus 2023 - 2024
Relational and somatically focused character analysis
2023:
Meeting #1: An overview of Contemporary Orgone (Reichian) Therapy
Meeting #2: The somatic perspective – the functional identity of psyche and soma
Meeting #3: Character and its formation: as originally laid out by Reich
Meeting #4: Character and its formation: contemporary psychodynamic viewpoints and approaches – self-psychology and intersubjectivity
Meeting #5: Character and its formation: humanistic and existential perspectives - Gestalt therapy and person-centered therapy
Meeting #6: Character Analysis: as originally laid out by Reich
Meeting #7: Character Analysis: contemporary psychodynamic viewpoints and approaches - self-psychology and intersubjectivity
Meeting #8: Character Analysis: the humanistic and existential perspective of Gestalt Therapy
2024:
Meeting #9: Character Analysis: the humanistic and existential perspective of person- centered therapy
Meeting #10: The biophysical armor: its nature and development
Meeting #11: Contact and its disturbances: contactlessness and substitute contact
Meeting #12: The biophysical armor and contact boundary disturbances
Meeting #13: Facilitating contact through being experience near
Meeting #14: Facilitating contact through being an other
Meeting #15: Facilitating contact through somatic interventions: use of breath
Meeting #16: Facilitating contact through somatic interventions: use of movement
Meeting #17: Facilitating contact through somatic interventions: use of voice
Meeting #18: Making contact – a functional analysis
Meeting #20: Key concepts in relational and somatically focused character analysis
- Review