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About CABP Integrative Body Psychotherapy – some Common Ground Joining CABP
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Integrative Body Psychotherapy – some Common Ground The
field of Body Psychotherapy emerged originally from the work of Wilhelm
Reich and forms a distinct branch of psychotherapy and psychoanalysis.
Contemporary Body Psychotherapy is concerned with the integration of
physiological/somatic, emotional, mental, spiritual and
social/relational aspects of the individual. It involves a extensive
body of knowledge and explicit theories of mind-body functioning which
take the complexity of interactions and reciprocal relationships
between psyche and soma into account.
Body
Psychotherapy approaches share an underlying assumption that we are
embodied beings and that there is a functional unity between
psychological and bodily aspects of being. Instead of hierarchical
relationships between mind and body, we see dynamic correlations
between somatic manifestations and psychological processes we observe.
Contemporary Body Psychotherapy draws on both humanistic and analytic
conceptions and may involve working with touch, movement and breathing.
CABP promotes the integration of relational perspectives with body
awareness to inform an embodied intersubjective engagement in the
therapeutic relationship.
The following articles provide insights into theory and practice of body psychotherapy.
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