Somatic Psychotherapy Training in

Contemporary Orgone (Reichian) Therapy

Year 1 syllabus

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:  Character Typology from the perspective of affect theory

January 18:  Character Typology: a self-psychological perspective

February 1: The Biophysical Armor: its nature and development

February 15: Contact with self and its disturbances: contactlessness and substitute contact

March 1: The Biophysical Armor and contact boundary disturbances

March 22: Contact, emotion and the cycle of experience

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