Publications

Reich's concept of muscular armour is re-evaluated whereby holdings in the myofascial system are primarily in connective tissue (CT), not the ...

What is Connective Tissue? It is a living creative tissue

What are the Connective Tissue Functions? It connects, separates and creates. 

Ct ...

In The id knows more than the Ego Admits, Solms and Panksepp have revolutionized our concepts of consciousness and unconsciousness. They bluntly ...

In order to address an overemphasis on the role of the object, I discuss eight principles of a self relations theory: (1) There is an innate, ...

This is a PowerPoint Presentation presented first in the Senigallia Conference in 2016.

Working in France in my practice at our house. I see ...

I present two major self-models: self as subject and self as object. My position is that in development and psychotherapy, there is an ...

After an introduction to body psychotherapy, there is a discussion of the trend in verbal and cognitive therapies to include the body. This trend ...

The energy concepts of Wilhelm Reich continue to be controversial. Recent research in the physical sciences, while not confirming Reich’s view ...

Speaking of the therapies that developed in the wake of Reich, his biographer, Myron Sharaf, describes Reich's legacy as a large mansion. Dotted ...

In The Flesh of the Soul, Gustl Marlock and Halko Weiss’s article, “In Search of the Embodied Self”, focuses on the need for a theory of self and ...

Definitions of Pulsation, Counter Pulsation,Instroke and Outstroke, Patterns of Charge, Theoretical Contributions. 

With this energetic and functional understanding, it is possible to view the themes of relationship building from a new perspective. Viewed ...

Hence, the first impulse of every creature must be a desire to establish contact with the outer world. Wilhelm Reich
In verbal based ...

At the 4th International Biosynthesis Congress in 2006, Dr. Allan Schore made a presentation and participated in a panel discussion with David ...

The development of working with the instroke of the pulsation of the life force was a major breakthrough in body psychotherapy. The effectiveness ...

Integration is as much a state as a property of a healthy pulsation of the life force. It means to bring something together, connect it to ...

Wilhelm Reich has shown us that muscular armoring is a neuro-muscular contractive reaction to physical and psychic stress. This contraction, held ...

In therapy we focus on a person's behavior and how they understand themselves. Particularly we focus on their experience of relationships. The ...

I began developing Functional Analysis in 1984. At first I saw it as a simple technique for mobilizing energetic processes, similar to breathing ...

Freud and the early analysts discovered the transference phenomenon and were initially confused and astounded at what occurred in these ...

Longing, "cosmic longing", is one of the most important emotions we have. It is the result of the biological experience of growth, which in turn ...

This is the second of two papers focusing on working from a Reichian energetic perspective. Both papers are intended to make the distinction more ...

This is the first of two papers that attempts to define what it means to work therapeutically from a Reichian energetic perspective. The ...

My primary focus with patients has always been the relationship between their body and mind. Following the pioneering work of the Austrian ...