Body Psychotherapy Techniques for Children and Adolescents

Abstract: The toy brings its own energy of health. It helps the child to learn how to explore toys and their meaning in the development of his or her personality. Therapeutic interventions are needed to provide an evolution of the maternal matrix.

Introduction

Our purpose is to approach the theoretical and practical concepts of Body Psychotherapy with children and adolescents in order to convert theories and attitudes into therapeutic procedures. Our contribution is about transmitting the techniques of the main neo-Reichian therapists (Gerda Boyesen, David Boadella (1985), Alexander Lowen and Stanley Keleman), while associating these with psychoanalytic formulations and psychodrama relating to the language of play.