Somatic Psychotherapy Training in

Contemporary Orgone (Reichian) Therapy

Module 1 syllabus 2024 - 2025

Relational and somatically focused character analysis  

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/phenomenological perspective of person-centered therapy I

Meeting #9:  Character Analysis: the humanistic and existential/phenomenological                               perspective of person-centered therapy II

Meeting #10:  Character Analysis: the humanistic and existential/phenomenological                               perspective of person-centered therapy III

Meeting #11:  Character Analysis: the humanistic and existential/phenomenological                               perspective of Gestalt therapy

Meeting #12:  Making contact - a functional analysis

Meeting #13: Facilitating contact: attending to the semantic representation of the body I

Meeting #14:  Facilitating contact: attending to the semantic representation of the body II

Meeting #15:  Facilitating contact: Gestalt cycle of experience

Meeting #16:  Facilitating contact: Exploration of phenomenological experience

Meeting #17:  The cycle of experience: therapeutic interventions

Meeting #18:  Affect theory and the cycle of experience

Meeting #19:  Affect theory and character defenses

Meeting #20:  Key concepts in relational and somatically focused character analysis  

- Review