Contemporary body-oriented psychology (psychotherapy) TOP, is a method, but rather a set of methods, about a hundred are known, which got its start about a century ago, and organically evolving in our time.
what is the main difference of TOP from such methods using the body as massage, Eastern practices, acupuncture, acupressure, yoga, etc.? TOP works with area "psycho", with an area of psychological condition, with the request. In fact, the system works through the body for thousands of years, Chinese, Hindu, ancient traditions, Russian quackery, shamanism.
As an example of the relationship of body and emotions or if you will, of the mind (psychosomatics), a description of this process in ancient Chinese treatise "Huang Di nei of Zin" (" Treatise of the Yellow Emperor - " 475-220 century BC,)
- Excessive joy injures the heart and pericardium.
- Fear hurts the kidneys and the bladder.
Anger hurts the liver and gall bladder.
And it's hard to argue. There is a certain emotion that has a negative effect on certain organs, systems. It can act as the source of the disease and its symptoms. Acupressure, acupuncture, moxibustion, heating of active zones.
unfortunately, in the tradition of the Enlightenment, especially in the XVIII-XIX centuries, in relation to man as an organism dominated by a mechanistic approach to the machine that can be repaired. Unfortunately, he now prevails in modern medicine. Despite the statement of Hippocrates in the V century BC, it is necessary to treat the patient, not the disease.
Attempts to treat man as a machine, quickly stalled, and the psychology was the same picture. It became clear that lacking some important element. This missing link, the unconscious, discovered and described in his writings C Freud. All our motives, the sources of behavior are very deep and man, as a rule, are not recognized. Freud explored the area of the unconscious, through dreams, reservations, clerical, but he withdrew from the zone of monitoring a component such as the human body, neverball.
Today, a large number of studies confirm that the transfer of information, non-verbal signals occupy up to 93% on verbal communication, only 7%. So many disciples and followers Z. Freud it was not enough that he used in his research. There are such scientists as K. Yung with his collective unconscious, Adler, O. Rank, etc. They have expanded Freudian ideas of the psyche.
One of the disciples and followers of Freud, Wilhelm Reich, the first in the psychoanalytic tradition have noticed the relationship between body structure and condition of the individual psyche. He expressed it in the postulates of the Reich:
1. People with relatives with mental problems have a similar structure of the body.
2.Problems in the head and problems in the body - different floors of the same building.
If you have a psychological problem you have experienced a lot of stress, you want or do not want, but in the body it will be reflected in the form of painful, tense areas, zones or, in the case of prolonged exposure, diseases of internal organs and systems. Unfortunately, tension in the body is poorly understood and therefore not available for self-treatment.
we All know the metaphorical expressions of such tensions, contractures in the body:
the Burden of care fell on the shoulders.
the Cat scratching on the soul.
- Stone on the heart.
- the Legs do not go, the hand does not rise.....
Each strong, especially not otreagirovana, emotion has its projection body, the projection may vary in different traditions, but we are talking about European.
Reich was the first to describe such a zone and called them "zones", "zone" Reich define the structure of a person's body or "Pacer character."
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