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''Character Analytical Vegetotherapy, was specifically systematized and related with the seven corporeal levels by Ola Raknes and Federico Navarro.
Federico Navarro assembled the main techniques of Wilhelm Reich, which he named “actingsâ€, and introduced new ones, setting up the way of using them (time, rhythm, direction), developing a clinical methodology.
Character Analytical Vegetotherapy acts on the Autonomous (Vegetative) nervous system after which it is named, on the muscular system, on the neuroendocrine system and on the energetic pulsation, which are the more direct expressions of emotional, affective and instinctive life. It tends to create euphtony and rebalancing of the above mentioned systems. It induces neurovegetative phenomena and emotions, which constitute messages-expressions of the language of the body, that are absolutely necessary for the reading of the personality aspects.
The verbalization of the sensations, of the emotions and of the free associations produced as well ,as the diagnosis of the object relations of the patient, represent the successive step of this methodology.
Especially the language of the body, which is the expression of the incisions of the object relations in the corresponding bodily areas (levels), is the most significant message to which one relates to, in the reichian setting. It must be clear that it accompanies all the other data of the “how†the person is expressing himself: from dreams to lapsuses, from symbols to metaphors, from imaginary life to liberating fantasies, from the type of thought to the characteriological trait that sustains it.
In the therapeutic praxis, takes place an investigation of the body in its psychic expressions through exercises (actings) specific for each one of the seven corporeal levels. These are practised by the client, progressively and specificly and they go through the experience of the psychoaffective evolution, and the emotional growing of the person. The ''actings'' reproduce ontogenetic natural movements that occur at the respective corporeal levels which prevail during the various evolutionary phases.
The actings are “the fractal elevators of internal time†and not only they bring back the intact ''how'' of the partial object relations in the way they were incised in the corporeal level of the Self at that time and phase, but they also provoke fundamental energy-emotional and psychodynamic insights. They therefore suggest the possibility of a new prototype of object relation in the present time.
An “acting†connects the “there and then†with the “here and nowâ€, the depth with the surface, the unconscious with the conscious, the implicit memory with the explicit memory, informing, forming and reforming the mind. They increase cognition and feeling determining a higher intelligence of the mind.
During the performance of the “actings†of Vegetotherapy we give priority temporarily to the feeling instead to the thinking and therefore we respect the natural organization of the evolution of the human being.
An analytic therapeutic project always aims at giving to the person the capacity to manage their ‘’armour’’ (defensive mechanisms) and their characterological combination.
Characteranalytic Vegetotherapy today
Unlike Freud, Wilhelm Reich did not include in his writings the detailed description of his clinical approach. After his death, different interpretations of his theories appeared as well as many personalities claiming to be continuing his work and others that took partial aspects of his clinical approach, developing new techniques such as the Rolfing, biorespiration, the primal cry, etc.
Some decades ago the EABP (European Association for Body Psychotherapy), was founded, representing the various modalities that arose from Reich’s work, like
Bioenergetic analysis, Biosynthesis, the Biodynamic approach, Somatotherapy, etc. and Character-analytical Vegetotherapy itself.''
As of late, I've been reading about less verbally-oriented psychotherapy and my attention has been drawn to Wilhelm Reich's vegetotherapy. In a nutshell, it focuses on the ways in which oppression and PTSD result in ''body armouring'' and the inability to reach the reichian orgasmic potency because of neurotic.
Understandably, emotional blockages and arrested development can also be pursued by e.g. combining verbal/schema therapy with meditation/sports/theater.
Any takes on this?
Federico Navarro assembled the main techniques of Wilhelm Reich, which he named “actingsâ€, and introduced new ones, setting up the way of using them (time, rhythm, direction), developing a clinical methodology.
Character Analytical Vegetotherapy acts on the Autonomous (Vegetative) nervous system after which it is named, on the muscular system, on the neuroendocrine system and on the energetic pulsation, which are the more direct expressions of emotional, affective and instinctive life. It tends to create euphtony and rebalancing of the above mentioned systems. It induces neurovegetative phenomena and emotions, which constitute messages-expressions of the language of the body, that are absolutely necessary for the reading of the personality aspects.
The verbalization of the sensations, of the emotions and of the free associations produced as well ,as the diagnosis of the object relations of the patient, represent the successive step of this methodology.
Especially the language of the body, which is the expression of the incisions of the object relations in the corresponding bodily areas (levels), is the most significant message to which one relates to, in the reichian setting. It must be clear that it accompanies all the other data of the “how†the person is expressing himself: from dreams to lapsuses, from symbols to metaphors, from imaginary life to liberating fantasies, from the type of thought to the characteriological trait that sustains it.
In the therapeutic praxis, takes place an investigation of the body in its psychic expressions through exercises (actings) specific for each one of the seven corporeal levels. These are practised by the client, progressively and specificly and they go through the experience of the psychoaffective evolution, and the emotional growing of the person. The ''actings'' reproduce ontogenetic natural movements that occur at the respective corporeal levels which prevail during the various evolutionary phases.
The actings are “the fractal elevators of internal time†and not only they bring back the intact ''how'' of the partial object relations in the way they were incised in the corporeal level of the Self at that time and phase, but they also provoke fundamental energy-emotional and psychodynamic insights. They therefore suggest the possibility of a new prototype of object relation in the present time.
An “acting†connects the “there and then†with the “here and nowâ€, the depth with the surface, the unconscious with the conscious, the implicit memory with the explicit memory, informing, forming and reforming the mind. They increase cognition and feeling determining a higher intelligence of the mind.
During the performance of the “actings†of Vegetotherapy we give priority temporarily to the feeling instead to the thinking and therefore we respect the natural organization of the evolution of the human being.
An analytic therapeutic project always aims at giving to the person the capacity to manage their ‘’armour’’ (defensive mechanisms) and their characterological combination.
Characteranalytic Vegetotherapy today
Unlike Freud, Wilhelm Reich did not include in his writings the detailed description of his clinical approach. After his death, different interpretations of his theories appeared as well as many personalities claiming to be continuing his work and others that took partial aspects of his clinical approach, developing new techniques such as the Rolfing, biorespiration, the primal cry, etc.
Some decades ago the EABP (European Association for Body Psychotherapy), was founded, representing the various modalities that arose from Reich’s work, like
Bioenergetic analysis, Biosynthesis, the Biodynamic approach, Somatotherapy, etc. and Character-analytical Vegetotherapy itself.''
As of late, I've been reading about less verbally-oriented psychotherapy and my attention has been drawn to Wilhelm Reich's vegetotherapy. In a nutshell, it focuses on the ways in which oppression and PTSD result in ''body armouring'' and the inability to reach the reichian orgasmic potency because of neurotic.
Understandably, emotional blockages and arrested development can also be pursued by e.g. combining verbal/schema therapy with meditation/sports/theater.
Any takes on this?
