CHARACTER-ANALYTIC VEGETOTHERAPY (STRUCTURAL APPROACH)

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Depth Psychotherapy with far reaching goals.

In our clinical practice we have found two situations that cannot be treated within the framework of brief or focal psychotherapy. For these, it is necessary to use more complex clinical systematics in order to attain successfully the appropriate goals.

A) Severe cases: deep depressions, obsessive-compulsive disorders, psychotic pathological dependencies, etc.

B) A sincere desire to free ourselves from our personal limits, from our body armor that leads to emotional rigidity, poor contact with others, a feeling of ‘deadness’ and limits our free perception and our true potentialities.

For both cases, we propose the systematics of Character-Analytic Vegetotherapy a model grounded in the work of Wilhem Reich, Federico Navarro and our current clinical research (ESTER). This model combines psychodynamic, psychoanalytic, psychosomatic and character-analysis knowledge.

Its main aim is to recover the psychosomatic functionality, the neurovegetative and energetic balance of the person. Through Character-Analytic Vegetotherapy we decondition the historical predispositions, recover true contact with our self, improve emotional expression, flexibilize our body armor (character-muscular armor) and open our conscience and perceptive field.

During this process of depth psychology, the relationship with the psychotherapist fulfills an essential role, similar to that of a lighthouse that guides a ship in the middle of a sea storm. Thus, empathy and an understanding position from the therapist are absolutely crucial.

Since the goals are structural and global, time is not fixed for this type of therapeutic processes.

However, the average is 300 sessions attended two times a week for 45 minutes, which for technical reasons are usually carried out jointly in a session of one hour and a half. os, que se suelen realizar por motivos técnicos en dos sesiones conjuntas.

Always bear in mind the process depends on the individual particularities and global reality of each case. It is advisable, at an advanced stage of the therapeutic process, to combine this treatment with group therapy once a month for four hours over the course of two years.

Artículo “La Vegetoterapia Caracteroanalítica. Psicoterapia iniciada por W.Reich y vigente en la actualidad.”

LA VEGETOTERAPIA CARACTEROANALITICA DE W. REICH Y APORTACIONES DE F. NAVARRO. A CARGO DE X. SERRANO

Ponencia en las jornadas en memoria de los 10 años de la muerte de Federico Navarro. Colegio Oficial de la comunidad Valenciana. Octubre 2012 (32 min.)