Running therapy

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In running therapy , the "gentle" aerobic running is individually dosed and monitored by the running therapist over a set period of time (for example about six weeks).

Running therapy means that the slow endurance run is used as a means of targeted therapy in order to draw new strength overall and in this way to enable the individual to work on the creation of his desired balance himself.

Running therapy was introduced in the early 1970s in the context of integrative movement therapy in the psychotherapy of depressive patients and in the treatment of addicts as "integrative running and endurance therapy" and empirically investigated at the Free University of Amsterdam in the "Amsterdam running studies" with good results versus psychotherapeutic control groups. In integrative running training, the focus is not only on the cardio-vasculo-pulmonary training effect, but also on psychological factors such as "bodily feeling", "interpersonal communication" and creative, playful moments (creative running), which are also used in the training of integrative running therapists mediated. It is practiced by professionally trained running therapists and, depending on the indication, applied with therapeutic or educational objectives - one of the differences to other forms of running.

Even if running therapy is more of an alternative medicine , the procedures with regard to the cardiovascular components and the psychological effects have long been based on evidence.

Literature (selection)

  • Ulrich Bartmann : Jogging and running for the psyche. dgvt-Verlag, Tuebingen 2005, ISBN 3-87159-056-8 .
  • A. Bonnemann, J. Grell, K. Richter (Eds.): Running and running therapy. A reader. LAS Verlag, 2006, ISBN 3-89787-160-2 .
  • Alexander Weber (Ed.): Help yourself, run! The Paderborn model of running therapy and other models of running. Junfermann Verlag, 1999, ISBN 3-87387-408-3 .
  • Alexander Weber, Wolfgang Schüler: Why Cooper invented aerobics. 11 great theorists of running health. LAS Verlag, 2005, ISBN 3-89787-169-6 .
  • M. Waibel, HG Petzold: Integrative endurance therapy for depressive illnesses. In: M. Waibel, C. Jakob-Krieger: Integrative movement therapy. Schattauer, Stuttgart 2009, pp. 81-97.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ HG Petzold, J. Sieper: "Leiblichkeit" as "Informed Body" embodied and embedded - body-soul-spirit-world relationships in integrative therapy. Sources and concepts on the “psychophysical problem” and body therapy practice. In: HG Petzold (Ed.): The images of people in psychotherapy. Interdisciplinary perspectives and the models of the therapy schools. Vienna 2012, p. 243-321 .
  2. ^ HG Petzold: Psychotherapy and body dynamics . Junfermann, Paderborn 1977, p. 351 f .
  3. ↑ M. Waibel, HG Petzold: Integrative endurance therapy for depressive illnesses . In: M. Waibel, C. Jakob-Krieger (Ed.): Integrative movement therapy . 2009, p. 81-97 .
  4. ↑ S. van der Mei, HG Petzold, R. Bosscher: Running therapy, stress, depression - an exercise-centered approach in integrative body and movement-oriented psychotherapy. Integrative Therapy 3, 1997, p. 374-428 .
  5. ↑ P. Schay, HG Petzold, C. Jakob-Krieger, M. Wagner: Running caresses the soul. Running therapy with drug addicts - an exercise and experience-centered treatment method of integrative therapy . Integrative Therapy 1–2, 2004, p. 150-175 .
  6. ↑ European Academy for Bio-Psycho-Social Health. Retrieved May 6, 2016 .
  7. ↑ Arnd Krüger : History of movement therapy. In: Preventive Medicine. Springer Loseblatt Collection, Heidelberg 1999, 07.06, pp. 1–22.
  8. ↑ Michael L. Sachs, Gary W. Buffone: Running as therapy. An integrated approach. Aronson, Northvale, New Jersey 1997, ISBN 0-7657-0093-X .