Discover what is corporal psychotherapy

• April 19, 2024

Knowing what this technique is and how it works are some of the questions that arise with the therapist. How will you help me? Is it going to hurt? Will I see results soon? The body psychotherapy it could be defined as the planned interaction charged with emotion and trust that is established between a suffering person (patient) and a socially recognized healer (therapist), who will guide him in the knowledge of himself through his body.

All psychotherapy helps the person, on the one hand, to give more perspective to their problems, observing their origin and unconscious implications. It also recognizes that everything that happens to the person, happens to his body and this affects his well-being and his way of relating to others.

Body psychotherapy is based on the fact that each part of the body keeps the history of what their life has been, and this is becoming energy blockages that can be reflected in diseases that apparently does not have a physical reason, or in muscular contractions that when observed show different attitudes like the idea of ​​running away (thighs and tense shoulders).

The session is a ritual that is established between the patient and the therapist, where a defined methodology, a conceptual framework and detailed observation will be sought, in order to heal the patient of any suffering or pain he experiences.

This technique is born of the concern of the doctor Wilhem Reich (1897-1957), Freud's psychoanalyst, when he asked himself how several of his patients showed no progress:

"... The patient had a terrible tendency to hide from himself, or to put it another way, the psychological barriers of the patient tended to perpetuate themselves unconsciously. In a way, people were afraid to break their blockages; they were incapable of feeling the pleasure of relaxation, of relaxing, of letting go. "Wilhem Reich.

Psychotherapy is a process that helps each person take responsibility for the acts of his life, by identifying our tendencies to repeat harmful patterns and the reinforcements that the family and society have regarding the almost null observation of our true emotions and needs

If we know each other and learn to channel the emotions that are the reflection of our experiences, our quality of life will undoubtedly improve.

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