ABSTRACT
This chapter explores some order to the variety of disciplines in body psychotherapy. It explores the main orientations and submodalities in body psychotherapy. Lowen defined bioenergetics as the study of personality in somatic terminology: the study of psychosomatic organisations. He furthered Reich's theoretical ideas by expanding developmental aspects of character structures, but also—and perhaps mostly so—by developing and fine-tuning therapeutic techniques. Formative psychology was developed by Stanley Keleman, who was a student of Reich and colleague to Pierrakos and Lowen. David Boadella is one of the most important clinicians and theoreticians in body psychotherapy, and biosynthesis, the model he developed and founded is a central body psychotherapy modality which is widely learned and developed. Biodynamic psychology was developed by Norwegian Gerda Boyesen, who integrated physiotherapy with her experience as an analysand of Reich's student Ola Raknes and her psychology studies to create her therapeutic system.
