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Somatic Experiencing (SE) is a form of alternative therapy aimed at treating trauma and stress-related disorders, such as post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). The primary goal of SE is to modify the trauma-related stress response through bottom-up processing.
An early precursor of the somatic movement in Western culture was the 19th-century physical culture movement. This movement sought to integrate movement practices, or "gymnastics", related to military and athletic training; medical treatment; and dance. [7] Many physical culture practices were brought to the US. [8]
Evoke experience: Client and therapist make direct contact with core feelings, beliefs, and memories using "experiments in mindfulness"—somatic and verbal techniques to "access" the present experience behind the client's verbal presentation, or to explore "indicators": chronic physical patterns, habitual gestures, bodily tension, etc.
Strozzi Institute was founded in 1985 by Richard Strozzi-Heckler, Ph.D. as an application of his research into a "somatic philosophy of learning".. In the 1970s Strozzi-Heckler and Robert K. Hall, M.D. developed The Lomi School of body oriented psychotherapy, influenced by the work of Fritz Perls, Ida Rolf, Randolph Stone, and Charan Singh. [2]
Experience serves as a basic category in Shusterman's pragmatism, both in terms of methodology (the pragmatist should always work from experience) [33] as well as ontology or epistemology (experience "is a transactional nexus of interacting energies connecting the embodied self and its environing world" [34]) but contrary to John Dewey, Shusterman does not engage in constructing a general ...
Peter A. Levine (born 1942), psychotherapist and creator of somatic experiencing. Peter J. Levine (born c. 1961), general partner at the Silicon Valley venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz. Peter G. Levine (born 1960), American stroke researcher and educator. Peter Levine (born 1967), Tufts University political scientist and organizer of ...
Somatic psychology or, more precisely, "somatic clinical psychotherapy" is a form of psychotherapy that focuses on somatic experience, including therapeutic and holistic approaches to the body. It seeks to explore and heal mental and physical injury and trauma through body awareness and movement.
Such heightening of somatic consciousness would not only enhance artistic appreciation and creation, but increase the perceptual awareness of meanings and feelings that have the potential to elevate everyday experience into an art of living. Shusterman proposed three fundamental dimensions of his emerging field: