{"id":247535,"date":"2022-09-16T18:12:03","date_gmt":"2022-09-16T16:12:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.pesops.gr\/?page_id=247535"},"modified":"2023-04-21T10:24:58","modified_gmt":"2023-04-21T08:24:58","slug":"applications-of-body-psychotherapy","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.pesops.gr\/en\/body-psychotherapy\/informations\/applications-of-body-psychotherapy\/","title":{"rendered":"APPLICATIONS OF BODY PSYCHOTHERAPY"},"content":{"rendered":"[et_pb_section fb_built=&#8221;1&#8243; _builder_version=&#8221;4.17.4&#8243; _module_preset=&#8221;default&#8221; custom_padding=&#8221;3px||40px|||&#8221; global_colors_info=&#8221;{}&#8221;][et_pb_row _builder_version=&#8221;4.18.0&#8243; _module_preset=&#8221;default&#8221; background_image=&#8221;https:\/\/www.pesops.gr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/pexels-axel-vandenhirtz-929280.jpg&#8221; parallax=&#8221;on&#8221; custom_padding=&#8221;200px||200px||true|false&#8221; border_radii=&#8221;on|50px|50px|50px|50px&#8221; global_colors_info=&#8221;{}&#8221;][et_pb_column type=&#8221;4_4&#8243; _builder_version=&#8221;4.17.4&#8243; _module_preset=&#8221;default&#8221; global_colors_info=&#8221;{}&#8221;][et_pb_post_title meta=&#8221;off&#8221; _builder_version=&#8221;4.17.4&#8243; _module_preset=&#8221;default&#8221; title_font=&#8221;|800|||||||&#8221; title_text_align=&#8221;center&#8221; title_text_color=&#8221;#FFFFFF&#8221; title_font_size=&#8221;50px&#8221; title_font_size_tablet=&#8221;30px&#8221; title_font_size_phone=&#8221;25px&#8221; title_font_size_last_edited=&#8221;on|phone&#8221; title_text_shadow_style=&#8221;preset1&#8243; global_colors_info=&#8221;{}&#8221;][\/et_pb_post_title][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][\/et_pb_section][et_pb_section fb_built=&#8221;1&#8243; _builder_version=&#8221;4.17.4&#8243; _module_preset=&#8221;default&#8221; custom_padding=&#8221;4px||130px||false|&#8221; global_colors_info=&#8221;{}&#8221;][et_pb_row make_equal=&#8221;on&#8221; _builder_version=&#8221;4.17.4&#8243; _module_preset=&#8221;default&#8221; custom_padding=&#8221;11px||11px||true|false&#8221; global_colors_info=&#8221;{}&#8221;][et_pb_column type=&#8221;4_4&#8243; _builder_version=&#8221;4.17.4&#8243; _module_preset=&#8221;default&#8221; global_colors_info=&#8221;{}&#8221;][et_pb_blurb icon_alignment=&#8221;left&#8221; content_max_width=&#8221;1000px&#8221; _builder_version=&#8221;4.19.4&#8243; _module_preset=&#8221;default&#8221; header_font=&#8221;|700|||||||&#8221; header_text_color=&#8221;#5C2E91&#8243; header_font_size=&#8221;25px&#8221; body_text_align=&#8221;justify&#8221; hover_enabled=&#8221;0&#8243; global_colors_info=&#8221;{}&#8221; sticky_enabled=&#8221;0&#8243;]\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Body Psychotherapy is a psychological and scientific approach from the outset of which lie the findings of Wilhelm Reich, psychiatrist and student of Freud. In Reich\u2019s theories, which he stated and applied in the beginning of the previous century, among other things a special emphasis is put on the prevention of the psychic disorder through an intervention in the groups of people being close to the infant, child and adolescent.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The preventive intervention is also very useful for other population categories which are in vulnerable position, such as women, the unemployed, \u201ctraumatized\u201d populations, etc.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Body Psychotherapy approach is more than ever opportune and useful in today\u2019s difficult situations.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Having as basic prerequisite that our body reflects the whole individual and that there is a functional unity and connection between the mind and the body, the psychotherapeutic work that combines both mind and body forms a big complementary unit of immediate help to individuals and couples; also to parents, pregnant women, adolescents, elderly people, family and generally to the most vulnerable social groups.<\/span><\/p>\n[\/et_pb_blurb][et_pb_accordion open_toggle_text_color=&#8221;#FFFFFF&#8221; open_toggle_background_color=&#8221;#5C2E91&#8243; closed_toggle_background_color=&#8221;#5C2E91&#8243; icon_color=&#8221;#FFFFFF&#8221; use_icon_font_size=&#8221;on&#8221; icon_font_size=&#8221;26px&#8221; _builder_version=&#8221;4.19.4&#8243; _module_preset=&#8221;default&#8221; toggle_text_color=&#8221;#FFFFFF&#8221; toggle_level=&#8221;h3&#8243; toggle_font=&#8221;|700|||||||&#8221; body_text_color=&#8221;#FFFFFF&#8221; hover_enabled=&#8221;0&#8243; border_radii=&#8221;on|20px|20px|20px|20px&#8221; border_width_all=&#8221;0px&#8221; box_shadow_style=&#8221;preset1&#8243; locked=&#8221;off&#8221; global_colors_info=&#8221;{}&#8221; toggle_font_size__hover=&#8221;23px&#8221; toggle_font_size__hover_enabled=&#8221;on|hover&#8221; sticky_enabled=&#8221;0&#8243;][et_pb_accordion_item title=&#8221;Individual Body Psychotherapy&#8221; open=&#8221;on&#8221; _builder_version=&#8221;4.19.4&#8243; _module_preset=&#8221;default&#8221; custom_margin=&#8221;||10px||false|false&#8221; custom_padding=&#8221;||||false|false&#8221; hover_enabled=&#8221;0&#8243; global_colors_info=&#8221;{}&#8221; sticky_enabled=&#8221;0&#8243;]\n<p><b>Individual psychotherapy constitutes the most basic form of psychotherapy.<\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In individual psychotherapy it is required to look into the past, the different psychic traumas and inner psychic clashes and make all these emerge so that on one hand the inhibitions and forbidden emotions can be released and on the other all the power and abilities that were blocked can be utilized.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">During the individual psychotherapy procedure, individuals learn to come closer to themselves, to become aware of and understand their needs, their most original feelings and their deepest thoughts.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The role and personality of the psychotherapist-counselor are exceptionally important and determining factors, so that a better therapeutic relation is created with the client. Important elements and prerequisites for a good therapeutic relationship between the two parts are confidentiality, safety, protection and warmth on the part of the therapist and also trust, good intentions and acceptance on the part of the client. In this way, the best possible cooperation and alliance is ensured so that basic requests of the client can be fulfilled.<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In individual psychotherapy of the body approach, the body with all its qualities, characteristics, memories and reactions, forms an exceptional additional tool-means (with its many and different techniques and exercises) for a more complete progress and maturing of the individual.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Some of the requests that make the individuals turn to the individual psychotherapy procedure are the following:<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Emotional symptoms- anxiety, fear, sadness, despair<\/span><\/i><\/li>\n<li><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> A negative perception of the self- lack of confidence\/self-esteem<\/span><\/i><\/li>\n<li><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> Body disorders in every system- respiratory, circulatory, skin, intestines, etc.<\/span><\/i><\/li>\n<li><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> Relation with the environment- phobias, panic attacks, difficulties in communication and in interpersonal relations etc.<\/span><\/i><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n[\/et_pb_accordion_item][et_pb_accordion_item title=&#8221;Group Body Psychotherapy&#8221; _builder_version=&#8221;4.19.4&#8243; _module_preset=&#8221;default&#8221; custom_margin=&#8221;||10px||false|false&#8221; custom_padding=&#8221;||||false|false&#8221; hover_enabled=&#8221;0&#8243; global_colors_info=&#8221;{}&#8221; open=&#8221;off&#8221; sticky_enabled=&#8221;0&#8243;]\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Nowadays group psychotherapy constitutes one of the most widespread and effective forms of psychotherapy.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The fatherhood of group psychotherapy is claimed by a lot of approaches but none owns it.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The group does a great therapeutic and social work since it helps the participants to communicate and connect with others in a special and deep way.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The <\/span><b>aims<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> of the group are:<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> the training of individuals in new forms of communication that are more human and functional<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> the acquisition of knowledge and new information and ideas through the sharing of stories and experiences between the group members<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> the creation of a proper atmosphere of confidentiality, safety and protection without judgment and interventions, forbidding orders or instructions so that emotions and thoughts can be freely expressed<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> the exploration of abilities, skills and characteristics of the personality\u2019 in order to achieve a better utilization of them in everyday life and acquire new positions and roles in the family and society<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> the recovery of values such as collectivity, altruism and solidarity that have been set aside<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In Body Psychotherapy the body is considered to be interconnected with the emotional life and so every approach to our body state is an approach to the whole of our being.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Through the many and different techniques and specialized exercises that energize the body, people taking part in a Body Psychotherapy group are helped to express and develop their emotional world within a framework that reinforces the communication and their connectedness with others.<\/span><\/p>\n[\/et_pb_accordion_item][et_pb_accordion_item title=&#8221;Couples&#8221; 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_builder_version=&#8221;4.19.4&#8243; _module_preset=&#8221;default&#8221; custom_margin=&#8221;||10px||false|false&#8221; custom_padding=&#8221;||||false|false&#8221; hover_enabled=&#8221;0&#8243; global_colors_info=&#8221;{}&#8221; open=&#8221;off&#8221; sticky_enabled=&#8221;0&#8243;]\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The role of the parent is one of the most important, functional roles as concerns the healthy evolution and development of the family and by extension, the whole society.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The parents\u2019 character, personality, knowledge, histories and experience define the balance and maturity of the family system to a great extent.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In parent groups, our aim is to create a context of education, wider knowledge, exchange of experience and emotions between the members.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">These groups are experiential in nature.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">They include activation and relaxation through body \u2018\u2019exercises\u2018\u2019, guided visions, creative expression, etc. In this way, parents can allow themselves (through imagination) to release thoughts, pictures and memories of their inner child in the group, so that they can achieve a wider and better communication with their actual child.<\/span><\/p>\n[\/et_pb_accordion_item][et_pb_accordion_item title=&#8221;The elderly&#8221; _builder_version=&#8221;4.19.4&#8243; _module_preset=&#8221;default&#8221; custom_margin=&#8221;||10px||false|false&#8221; custom_padding=&#8221;||||false|false&#8221; hover_enabled=&#8221;0&#8243; global_colors_info=&#8221;{}&#8221; open=&#8221;off&#8221; sticky_enabled=&#8221;0&#8243;]\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This is an evolutionary phase of a man\u2019s life during which, basic needs and existential matters form its constituent elements.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Issues like loneliness, loss of beloved people, loss of their role in the family, physical state, illnesses (senility, depression, psychosexual disorder, death anxiety etc.) are just some of the issues that worry the elderly.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">There are many different approaches that deal with these issues.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Body Psychotherapy approach helps in many ways, especially with \u201cexercises\u201d of relaxation, contemplation, strengthening of the Ego and expression through movement, dance or creative expression.<\/span><\/p>\n[\/et_pb_accordion_item][et_pb_accordion_item title=&#8221;Delivery preparation groups&#8221; _builder_version=&#8221;4.19.4&#8243; _module_preset=&#8221;default&#8221; custom_margin=&#8221;||10px||false|false&#8221; custom_padding=&#8221;||||false|false&#8221; hover_enabled=&#8221;0&#8243; global_colors_info=&#8221;{}&#8221; open=&#8221;off&#8221; sticky_enabled=&#8221;0&#8243;]\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The positive contact of a mother with her baby creates the conditions for a healthy and happy personality.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The groups of pregnant women from the 3rd month of pregnancy until delivery include:<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> Information and sharing about pregnancy, delivery and confinement issues, information It is worth noting that, apart from body exercises, the tools used in Body Psychotherapy groups (psychodrama, painting, verbal or non-verbal expression, etc.) normally stimulate the emotion and spirit while at the same time mobilizing the body. about natural delivery<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> Information about natural delivery<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> Elaboration of special pregnancy issues: anxieties, identification with the role of the mother, sexuality, body image, ambivalence about the baby, etc.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> Body \u201cexercises\u201d suitable for a good pregnancy and delivery: breath dilation, relaxation, preparation of the perineum, tone restoration of the parts that have to do with delivery (pelvis, neck, mouth, eyes, legs)<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> Their partners\u2019 participation and informing about delivery and confinement<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n[\/et_pb_accordion_item][et_pb_accordion_item title=&#8221;Groups of pre-adolescents and adolescents&#8221; _builder_version=&#8221;4.19.4&#8243; _module_preset=&#8221;default&#8221; custom_margin=&#8221;||10px||false|false&#8221; custom_padding=&#8221;||||false|false&#8221; hover_enabled=&#8221;0&#8243; global_colors_info=&#8221;{}&#8221; open=&#8221;off&#8221; sticky_enabled=&#8221;0&#8243;]\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Pre-adolescence along with adolescence, as evolutionary phases of a person\u2019s life, constitute a passage from childhood to a mature phase of life that is, adult life.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Pre-adolescence\/adolescence is a period characterized by big changes and separations both on a physical and psycho-spiritual level. The way the pre-adolescent\/adolescent perceives, accepts and deals with these changes is very related to the attention and care they had in the early evolutionary stages of their life together with the stimuli and conditions that followed.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Some of the main issues of this age are:<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> Body changes<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> The relationship with the parents<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> The relationship with the other sex<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> The relationship with friends and social groups<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> The fear of being different along with the need to be unique<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> The need for support and guidance together with the need for freedom (both insecurity and wish)<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">At this stage of life, difficulties can be expressed in various ways such as:<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> behavior disorders (being excessively reserved or outgoing with underlying anger)<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> substance addiction (drugs, alcohol, etc.)<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> fanatic attachment to ideologies- groups<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Body Psychotherapy groups give young individuals the opportunity to:<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> Come into contact with their hidden emotions through body exercises, to express and recognize the energy of their emotions so that they can use it in a creative rather than a destructive way<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> See and accept their body through its history and uniqueness<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> Share their fears and anxieties with peers, within a framework that mirrors them and -depending on the situation- is either reassuring or puzzling<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It is worth noting that, apart from body exercises, the tools used in Body Psychotherapy groups (psychodrama, painting, verbal or non-verbal expression, etc.) normally stimulate the emotion and spirit while at the same time mobilizing the body.<\/span><\/p>\n[\/et_pb_accordion_item][\/et_pb_accordion][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][\/et_pb_section]\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Body Psychotherapy is a psychological and scientific approach from the outset of which lie the findings of Wilhelm Reich, psychiatrist and student of Freud. In Reich\u2019s theories, which he stated and applied in the beginning of the previous century, among other things a special emphasis is put on the prevention of the psychic disorder through an intervention in the groups of people being close to the infant, child and adolescent. The preventive intervention is also very useful for other population categories which are in vulnerable position, such as women, the unemployed, \u201ctraumatized\u201d populations, etc. Body Psychotherapy approach is more than ever opportune and useful in today\u2019s difficult situations. Having as basic prerequisite that our body reflects the whole individual and that there is a functional unity and connection between the mind and the body, the psychotherapeutic work that combines both mind and body forms a big complementary unit of immediate help to individuals and couples; also to parents, pregnant women, adolescents, elderly people, family and generally to the most vulnerable social groups.Individual psychotherapy constitutes the most basic form of psychotherapy. In individual psychotherapy it is required to look into the past, the different psychic traumas and inner psychic clashes and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"parent":247522,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"on","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"difl_page_category":[],"class_list":["post-247535","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pesops.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/247535","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pesops.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pesops.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pesops.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pesops.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=247535"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.pesops.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/247535\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":247538,"href":"https:\/\/www.pesops.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/247535\/revisions\/247538"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pesops.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/247522"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pesops.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=247535"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"difl_page_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pesops.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/difl_page_category?post=247535"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}