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Article or website name: Organismic Psychotherapy
Author: Malcolm Brown
Institution: Alternative Health Dictionary
Country: USA
Type: Body-Psychotherapy Practice, Education & Workshops
URL: www.experiencefestival.com/organismic_psychotherapy
Organismic psychotherapy (humanistic body psychotherapy): Spinoff of Reichian Therapy developed by Malcolm Brown, Ph.D., and Katherine Ennis Brown, in Europe. Its theory divides human anatomy into four dynamic Being Centers of the embodied soul: (1) The Agape-Eros Being Center consists of the upper frontal portion of the body and mediates feelings of openness toward others. (2) the Hara Being Center, the abdominal portion of the body, permits self-love. (3) The Logos Being Center, the upper dorsal portion of the body, has unfathomable intuitive faculties. (4) The Phallic-Spiritual Warrior Being Center, which consists of the lower back and the limbs, enables resoluteness (perseverance). Brown was primarily influenced by C.G. Jung, Abraham laslow, Erich Neumann, Can Rogers, D.H. Lawrence, neurologist Kurt item. and Wilhelm Reich and he went on to develop a modality that functions to re-activate the natural mental/spiritual polarities of the psyche and soul. ... Two other gnificant aspects of the Browns' work is the wide use of motionless, direct for the purpose of undermining armor and mobilizing exercises esigned to challenge the armor. (CCB)
Author's institution: Contact: Language: English Country origin: USA
Entry number: 3343 English version:
Entry source: Colleen Campbell Barshop Entered by: Courtenay Young Entry date: 2 January 2006
Key Phrases: Body Psychotherapy - Organismic Psychotherapy References: Other information: see article in USABP Journal 4: 2 : 2005 (2365): see also (504)