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