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