Bioenergetic analysis
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This article is about the Reichian body-oriented psychotherapy. For the biological study of energy transformation known as bioenergetics, see Biological thermodynamics.
Bioenergetic Analysis is a form of body psychotherapy (body-oriented Reichian psychotherapy), based upon the work of Wilhelm Reich, but adding a number of innovations. These innovations include emphasis on the importance of 'grounding', that is being in strong contact with the ground through feet and legs, and on psychoanalytic such as transference, countertransference, dreams, slips of the tongue and Oedipal issues. It also places even greater emphasis on sexual fulfilment than Reichian psychotherapy. It was developed by Alexander Lowen, a patient and student of Reich's.[1]
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- ^ Sharf, Richard (2011). Theories of psychotherapy and counseling : concepts and cases. Belmont, CA: Brooks/Cole. p. 594. ISBN 0840033664.
