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unusual facts about Body Psychotherapy


Reichian therapy

Body psychotherapy, which addresses the body and the mind as a whole with emphasis on the reciprocal relationships within body and mind.


Aadel Bülow-Hansen

One of her students was Gerda Boyesen, who later developed Biodynamic Psychology, a form of Body Psychotherapy.

Elsa Gindler

This became one of the bases of body psychotherapy since many of the most influential body psychotherapists studied with her or "Sensory Awareness" with Charlotte Selver at the Esalen Institute around 1962.

Friedrich Kraus

Kraus' theory on bio-electrics is considered to be a forerunner to psychologist Wilhelm Reich's work with biophysics and body psychotherapy (vegetotherapy).


see also

Heinrich Jacobi

Heinrich Jacoby (1889–1964), German musician and educator, who was an important influence to body psychotherapy

Heinrich Jacoby

The work of Heinrich Jacoby influenced body psychotherapy through the workshops that Charlotte Selver (1901–2003), student of Jacoby and Gindler, gave to major body psychotherapists at the Esalen Institute in the 1960s.