Somatic Psychotherapy Training in

Contemporary Orgone (Reichian) Therapy

Application of orgonomic theory and technique in the practice of somatic psychotherapy

Year 1 syllabus

Relational and somatically focused character analysis  

2022:

September:  An overview of Contemporary Orgone (Reichian) Therapy

September:  The Development of Classical Orgone Therapy: From Character Analysis to Vegetotherapy

to Orgone Therapy

October:   Functional Antithesis of Sexuality and Anxiety / Biological Pulsation and Autonomic

Function 

October:   Character and its formation: as originally laid out by Reich

November:  Character and its formation: contemporary psychodynamic viewpoints and approaches – self psychology and intersubjectivity

November:  Character Analysis: as originally laid out by Reich

December: Character Analysis: contemporary psychodynamic viewpoints and approaches – self psychology and intersubjectivity

December:  Character Typology: as originally laid out by Reich

2023:

January:  Character Typology from the perspective of affect theory

January:  Character Typology: a self-psychological perspective

February: The Biophysical Armor: its nature and development

February: Contact with self and its disturbances: contactlessness and substitute contact

March: The Biophysical Armor and contact boundary disturbances

March: Contact, emotion and the cycle of experience

April:  Making/facilitating contact – the heart of relational and somatically focused character analysis

April: Making contact through being experience near

May:  Making contact through being experience distant

May:  Facilitating contact through awareness

June:  Facilitating contact through movement

June:  Facilitating contact through breath