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Somatics is a field within bodywork and movement studies which emphasizes internal physical perception and experience. The term is used in movement therapy to signify approaches based on the soma , or "the body as perceived from within", [ 1 ] [ 2 ] including Skinner Releasing Technique , Alexander technique , the Feldenkrais Method , Eutony ...
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.
Somatic cell, a non-gametic cell in a multicellular organism; Somatic nervous system, the portion of the vertebrate nervous system which regulates voluntary movements of the body; Somatics, a group of alternative medicine approaches, experiential movement disciplines, and dance techniques; Somatic theory, a model of human social behavior
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.
Thomas Louis Hanna (November 21, 1928 – July 29, 1990) was a philosophy professor and movement theorist who coined the term somatics in 1976. [1] [2] [3] [4] [5] He ...
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• Practical somaesthetics focuses on practicing somatic care “through intelligently disciplined body work aimed at somatic self-improvement (whether in a representational, experiential, or performative mode)". [8] Over the past two decades, somaesthetics has become a truly interdisciplinary endeavor.
Somatic theory is a theory of human social behavior based on the somatic marker hypothesis of António Damásio.The theory proposes a mechanism by which emotional processes can guide (or bias) behavior: in particular, decision-making, the attachment theory of John Bowlby, and the self-psychology of Heinz Kohut (especially as consolidated by Allan Schore).