For Students & Researchers
Ordered to build the historical and theoretical map first, then show how this site’s disability-critical layer was built on top of it, then point you to the evidence discipline that runs underneath everything.
The theoretical map
- Body Psychotherapy — the critical canon and the normative-body test this whole section applies.
- Gerda Boyesen → Biodynamic Psychotherapy — the shift from Reich’s forceful armour-breaking toward self-regulation.
- Bodynamic Psychology — Marcher’s separate developmental-resource tradition; note how it’s kept distinct from Biodynamic throughout.
- Other Approaches & Evidence — Bioenergetics, Biosynthesis, Hakomi, Sensorimotor, Somatic Experiencing, Polyvagal Theory, Focusing, Dance/Movement.
The evidence discipline
Evidence, Claims & Controversies lays out the labelling system used throughout — Historical Theory, Clinical Tradition, Phenomenological Observation, Proposed Mechanism, Supported by Broader Research, Limited or Contested Evidence — applied to specific concepts like Psycho-Peristalsis and Polyvagal Theory.
The disability-critical method itself
The three-way distinction underneath every reconstruction on this site — impairment, disability as social restriction, and embodied adaptation — is stated on the main Body Psychotherapy page and applied consistently across all fifteen pages of Disability-Informed Body Psychotherapy.
Full vocabulary
The Body Psychotherapy A–Z functions as a working index across every tradition covered, including terms mentioned but not yet given their own page — marked honestly as such.
Other ways in
For People Exploring Their Own Body · For Therapists & Clinicians · Body Psychotherapy