Studies in Somatic Psychology – Introductory Somatic Psychotherapy Training and Case Consultation Group

October 2022 through May 2023

Daniel Schiff PhD

2022-23 syllabus

2022:

October 12:  Somatic psychotherapy – overview and historical roots

October 26:  Somatic psychotherapy as represented by Contemporary Reichian                                      Therapy: Overview of the therapeutic process

November 16: The relationship between psyche and soma from an orgonomic                                           (bioenergetic)  functional perspective

November 30: Emotion: A somatic psychology perspective

December 14: Character and the somatic armor

December 21: The segmental arrangement of the somatic armor and the flow of                                       emotions

2023:

January 11:  Basic interventions in somatic psychotherapies – an overview.

January 25:  Promoting contact in experiential and somatic psychotherapies

February 8:  Working with awareness in therapy sessions

February 22:  Working with respiration in therapy sessions

March 15:  Working with vocalization in therapy sessions

March 29:  Working with movement in therapy sessions

April 5:  Working with imagery in therapy sessions

April 12:  Attachment and Somatic Psychotherapy

May 3:  Transference, countertransference and the use of self in therapy

May 24:  Putting it all together – somatic psychotherapy