The Embodiment of Madness, Wilhelm Reich Center, 17.05.2025

Madness

Though I am aware that many people today self-define as mad, and that the term is widely used, madness is not a word or category I much care for as Read more

How is madness embodied in psychoanalysis?

17 May 2025

These remarks are extracted from a much longer piece entitled:  “My Body, My Psyche, My Self: An Empath’s Reflections in Being and Becoming in the World,” that is part of Read more

How are Blackness and Whiteness Embodied in the Clinical Encounter?

24 February 2025

Here are notes summarizing my opening talk:

The therapeutic alliance between the therapist and the patient is an important process in making changes happen.

Norwegian statistics Read more

How are Sex and Gender Embodied in the Therapeutic Relationship?

December 7, 2024

Dr. Stacy Berlin’s talk delves into the fluid nature of gender, weaving personal reflections with its impact on the psychoanalytic couple. She embellishes and emphasizes Read more

Wilhelm Reich Center Panel Presentation: Can Body Psychotherapies be Integrated with Psychoanalysis?

September 14, 2024

Caron Harrang, LICSW, FIPA, BCPsa

My background includes training as a bioenergetic therapist with the New York Society for Bionenergetic Analysis in the early Read more

How Does Early Development Affect the Embodiment of the Clinical Encounter?

Julianne Appel-Opper

In my contribution, I focus on body-body-communications in therapeutic sessions. We learn an embodied language before we learn words and we continue to communicate in this Read more

How does early development effect the embodiment of the clinical encounter?

Ruella Frank, PhD

I practice as a gestalt psychotherapist; my practice is phenomenological and aesthetic. I began my training in 1982. Before that time, I studied infant movements Read more

How Does Early Development Affect the Embodiment of the Clinical Encounter?

Helena Vissing, PsyD

I want to start with a statement that in the shortest – and perhaps a bit hyperbolic – way captures my take on the question Read more

The Wilheim Reich Center for the Study of Embodiment Feb 24, 2024

Reflections On How Trauma and Dissociation Are Embodied

Heather Ferguson, LCSW

I want to acknowledge the panelists’ significant contributions to the study of aesthetic, improvisational, sensorial, unconscious, Read more

Embodied effects of Trauma and Dissociation and a Clinical approach

by Henry Markman

In this limited time I’m going talk about my work with traumatized-dissociated patients, particularly those with early relational developmental trauma, and some of the ideas the Read more