Will Davis (psychotherapist)

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Will Davis (born August 21, 1943 in New York City ) is an American psychologist and psychotherapist who developed the instroke concept and the points and positions body technique, two body therapy approaches in the tradition of Wilhelm Reich .

He founded the European Reichian School , which today operates as the Institute for Functional Analysis . Today he is considered an innovative Reichian who creatively develops positions and is particularly highly specialized in body therapy.

life and work

Davis graduated from Albright College , Reading and Springfield College , Springfield with a degree in Psychology . From 1966 to 1970 he worked as a special education teacher for children with behavioral disorders in New York City and New Jersey , then in Seattle . At the same time, he completed training in encounter technology and gestalt therapy . In 1975 he opened his own practice in Seattle, in 1976 he founded - together with colleagues - the Crysalis Energy Center for alternative healing methods. During his natal training with Charles Kelley in LA and Ojai , he developed the instroke method as a complementary method to the discharge-oriented Reich natal work. This made both phases of the pulsation therapeutically useful. In 1980 he worked in the field of environmental medicine in California . Since 1983, Will Davis has taught in the United States , Japan, and across Europe . In 1984 he moved to Munich and in 1986 to southern France, where he still lives today with his wife Lilian Annette Raabe and two children.

Will Davis was the first therapist to use energetically oriented instroke work on schizoid and oral character structures, as well as borderline personality disorders , for which Reich's discharge work is not appropriate. His Points & Positions - body therapy draws attention to the existential-organismic level. In Davis' interpretation, early disorders arise due to trauma and stress-related plasmatic contractions because no other defense mechanism is available at this time. The "functional analysis" then enables the patient to develop cognitive and neuromuscular forms of defense.

German-language publications

  • (1988) Working with the Instroke. Streams 2 (2): 12-20
  • (1989) work from an energetic perspective. Streams 3: 6-26
  • (1990) Transfer. bukumatula 2: 14-23 and 3: 4-17
  • (1991) Points and positions: Sketch of a neo-Rechian methodology. Energy & Character 22 (4): 16-32
  • (1992) On Working with the Past. Streams 5: 22-33
  • (1997) The biological foundations of the schizoid process. bukumatula 3: 4-18
  • (1999) Instroke and Reorganization. In: Lassek (Ed.): Wissenschaft vom Lebendigen, Berlin 1999, 169-193

proof

  1. ↑ Stumm, Pritz et al .: Personal Lexicon of Psychotherapy. Vienna, New York 2005, 98f
  2. ↑ http://www.biosynthesis.org/congress2001/workshop_davis_e.pdf  ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / www.biosynthesis.org  

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personal data
SURNAME Davis, Will
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American psychologist and psychotherapist
DATE OF BIRTH August 21, 1943
PLACE OF BIRTH New York City