Somatic Psychotherapy Training in
Contemporary Orgone (Reichian) Therapy
Module 1 syllabus 2022 - 2023
Relational and somatically focused character analysis
All meetings take place on Wednesdays, 4:30 - 6:30 PST
2022:
September 14: An overview of Contemporary Orgone (Reichian) Therapy
September 28: The Development of Classical Orgone Therapy: From Character Analysis to Vegetotherapy
to Orgone Therapy
October 19: Functional Antithesis of Sexuality and Anxiety / Biological Pulsation and Autonomic
Function
November 2: Character and its formation: as originally laid out by Reich
November 9: Character and its formation: contemporary psychodynamic viewpoints and approaches – self psychology and intersubjectivity
November 23: Character Analysis: as originally laid out by Reich
December 7: Character Analysis: contemporary psychodynamic viewpoints and approaches – self psychology and intersubjectivity
December 14: Character Typology: as originally laid out by Reich
2023:
January 4: Gestalt Therapy: Basic Principles
January 18: The biophysical armor: its nature and development
February 1: Contact
February 15: Contact with self and its disturbances: contactlessness and substitute contact
March 1: Character Analysis in Gestalt Therapy
March 22: The biophysical armor and contact boundary disturbances
Apri 19l: Making/facilitating contact – the heart of relational and somatically focused character analysis
April 26: Making contact through being experience near
May 10: Making contact through being experience distant
May 31: Facilitating contact through awareness
June 14: Facilitating contact through movement and breath
June 28: Key concepts in Contemporary Orgone (Reichian) Therapy - Review