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The biophysical work can create a deep bond between Veteran and therapist, as it exists in a context where defenses are confronted early on in treatment resulting in increased honesty and vulnerability as therapy proceeds.
Orgonomy is a mind-body analytic approach that understands the functional relationship between the two; it does not hold a dualistic conceptualization of mind as separate from body. Orgonomy treats the problematic character defenses and how those very character patterns translate as “body armor," and manifest in a variety of biophysical symptoms.
Selected excerpts herein (above) reprinted from Whole Therapist, Whole Patient: Integrating Reich, Masterson and Jung in Modern Psychotherapy as authorized by Dr. Patricia R. Frisch.
Mind-Body: Our Gut-Brain Connection [from my blog dated 2/23/2019, located at
https://orgonomictherapy.com/2019/02/23/mind-body-our-gut-brain-connection/]
A relatively new area of research is making strides in the microbiome-brain connection and its relationship to mental health disorders. This research is illustrative of the profound interconnectedness of the mind and the body. The research into the microbiome-gut-brain axis, as it is referenced, is attempting to solve the riddles of how gut bacteria within the microbiota may affect our mental/physical states. Using fecal transplants and other research designs with both mice and human subjects, the edges of the puzzle are beginning to form. A decade ago, this idea was seen by scientists as hogwash and was emphatically rejected, but now international researchers are peering
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