History and current approaches in Body-Psychotherapy

This bachelor thesis is a theoretical literal research focused on a psychotherapeutic way, which is called body psychotherapy or psychotherapy focused on the body. Psychotherapy focused on the body is a science, which has been evolving during the past seventy years on the basis of the results of researches in biology, anthropology, ethology, neurophysiology, neuropsychology, evolutionary psychology, neonatology and in perinatal studies. It also benefited from it's own experiences and discoveries. The thesis displays the circumstances of and the reasons for the birth of this psychotherapeutic sector and defines it's present status and position within other therapeutic systems. The thesis also states psychological and neurophysiological knowledge clarifying the relationship between human's bodily stability and physical stability, which are important for subsuming work with the body into psychotherapy. The thesis also displays, describes and compares different attitudes, which are within the body psychotherapeutic way used around the world