Body therapy

This article explains physical exercises and treatments of the body which can also have psychological effects; the article body psychotherapy explains psychotherapy methods in which body experiences are an essential element of psychotherapeutic treatment. The boundaries between body psychotherapy and body therapy are not clear. Until the 1990s, many body psychotherapists referred to themselves as body therapists.

Body therapy (often used synonymously with body psychotherapy ) describes treatment methods to improve posture and movement sequences . Depending on the method, special manual techniques, similar to massage or physiotherapy or instructions for training postures and movements or mixed forms of manual techniques and instructions, are used. Almost all body therapy methods emphasize the importance of psychosomatic interactions and assume that body therapy brings about positive psychological changes. In contrast to body psychotherapy, body therapeutic treatments are not necessarily embedded in a psychotherapeutic concept.

Methods

• Acupressure and DAO acupressure - a holistic method of traditional Chinese medicine. This deep body work affects all body functions. The Qi is stimulated to flow harmoniously.
• Acupuncture massage according to Penzel - A massage technique based on Chinese acupuncture
• Acupuncture massage ESB-APM-ORK according to Radloff
• Alexander Technique by Frederick Matthias Alexander - A teaching method with which the student learns to observe and analyze his posture and movement habits and to discard physically dysfunctional habits. The method is similar to the Feldenkrais method.
• Respiratory therapy
• Bartenieff Fundamentals based on Laban's movement studies by Irmgard Bartenieff .
• Biodynamic psychology according to Gerda Boyesen
• Bowen Therapy
• Breema
• Budopädagogik , (oriental traditional methods motion and Budō -Kampfkünste in modern education and therapy) to Jörg-Michael Wolters
• Cranio-Sacral Therapy
• Experience the breath according to Ilse Middendorf
• Esalen Massage - A holistic form of bodywork developed at the Esalen Institute in California.
• Eutonia by Gerda Alexander - A body therapy or training with the aim of improving body awareness through perception in rest and movement. Physical and mental well-being should be created by balancing tension.
• Fascia therapy - palpatory diagnosis and treatment of the fascia system of the body (borrowed from the Latin fascia for "band", "bandage of the body" and ancient Greek θεραπεία therapeia "service, care, healing") by means of positioning, direct pressure or via alignment of self-perception ( Proprioception ) of the patient
• Feldenkrais Method by Moshé Feldenkrais - A body-oriented learning method that allows you to become more aware of your own body and its movement patterns. The method is similar to the Alexander Technique.
• Franklin Method by Eric Franklin - A body-oriented learning method that uses imagination, perception-enhancing exercises, experienced anatomy and embodiment. The aim is to improve motor skills by optimizing neurosensory functions.
• Functional relaxation according to Marianne Fuchs - body therapy method in which special minimal movements of individual joints and conscious breathing are in the foreground
• Gindler work after Elsa Gindler
• Grinberg method according to Avi Grinberg
• Integrative movement and body therapy ( integrative movement therapy )
• Jin Shin Jyutsu , an esoteric form of body therapy in connection with body energy work.
• Kinesthetic based on Frank Hatch and Lenny Maietta
• Kinesiology
• Running therapy
• Rebalancing - a body therapy that aims to help you achieve a new "body awareness" by means of a deep connective tissue massage. The method is similar to Rolfing.
• Rolfing by Ida Rolf - A complementary medical manual treatment method, which is also called structural integration. It is a combination of connective tissue massage and body work. The method is similar to rebalancing.
• Rose method according to Marion Rosen - by combining gentle touching of tense muscles and areas that are not moved by the breath, chronic tension can be resolved. Rosen assumed that chronic muscle tension can also have an emotional reason. A gentle touch helps the muscles relax and take on their actual size. This is also where the interaction between soul and body lies.
• Osteopathy
• Polarity
• Postural integration by Jack Painter combines, like Rolfing , connective tissue work with breath work , Reichian body therapy, energy work and elements from Gestalt therapy . The connection between external attitudes (posture) and internal attitudes is explored.
• Qi Gong Chinese therapeutic gymnastics combined with mental exercises (imagination)
• Sensorimotor body therapy by Helga Pohl - an integration of various body therapies.
• Shiatsu
• Skan body therapy
• Structural body therapy (SKT) by Herbert Grassmann. Deep body work through the connection of structural and neurological integration.
• Physically realize and practice Tai Chi in meditative forms of movement, philosophical guiding principles of Taoism
• Tamalpa Life / Art Process from Anna Halprin's work on (self-) healing aspects of dancing.
• Dance therapy
• Terlusollogy an alternative medical concept with a physical exercise program to improve straightening and mobility
• Trager method by Milton Trager - A gentle body work with "mental gymnastics".
• TRE exercises (Tension and Trauma Releasing Exercises), a method evaluated especially in disaster areas for self-induced muscle tremors against stress or trauma
• Watsu by Harold Dull - An alternative medicine hydrotherapeutic application. The therapist stands in chest-deep water and moves the client according to given figures. He combines the positive properties of water with the basics of Shiatsu .
• Zero Balancing by Fritz Frederick Smith

Legal status of body therapists

The job title of body therapist and body therapy are not protected in Germany and Switzerland. Body therapy as a self-awareness and as an instrument for self-development is not subject to any restrictions on practice.

Germany

In Germany, body psychotherapy may only be used as a curative (disease) treatment by doctors , psychological psychotherapists , child and adolescent psychotherapists and alternative practitioners .

Switzerland

In Switzerland, body therapy is used by alternative practitioners and therapists in complementary medicine. Each canton has its own legislation in this regard.

literature

• Hadassa K. Moscovici : Dancing for joy, half to pieces for sorrow. Body therapy pioneers. Luchterhand Literaturverlag , Frankfurt am Main 1989, ISBN 978-3-630-86698-7 . Second revised and exp. Edition Bacopa Verlag, Schiedlberg / Austria 2005, ISBN 3-901618-31-7 .
• Arnd Krüger : history of movement therapy. In: Preventive Medicine. Springer, Heidelberg 1999, (loose-leaf collection) 07.06, pp. 1–22.

See also

• Body history

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Gustl Marlock, Halko Weiss: Handbook of body psychotherapy. 1st edition. Schattauer Verlag, 2006, p. 195. Preview Google
2. ↑ Ulfried Geuter: Paths to the body - To the history and theory of the body-related approach in psychotherapy. Reading sample (PDF; 101 kB)
3. ^ Frank H. Willard: Foundations of Osteopathic Medicine / Chapter: "The Fascial System of the Body" . Ed .: Anthony G. Chila. 3rd ed. Wolters Kluwer / Lippincott Williams and Wilkins, ISBN 978-0-7817-6671-5 , pp. 74-92 .
4. ↑ Translations for "fascia" in the Latin »German dictionary. Retrieved February 21, 2019 .