
Somatic Psychotherapy Training Institute – PNW
Four-year training program in Contemporary Orgone (Reichian) Therapy Beginning September, 2023 Offered by: Daniel Schiff PhD via Zoom Module 1: Relational and somatically focused character analysis An in-depth training program for psychologists, social workers, mental health counselors, and other health professionals who desire to become fully grounded in the theoretical and procedural fundamentals which are used in somatic psychotherapy and contemporary Reichian therapy practice. These fundamentals embody an integration of the character-analytic, biophysical, and bioenergetic (orgonomic) theories and techniques developed by Wilhelm Reich and the ‘here and now’ process-oriented techniques of gestalt and person-centered therapy with that which is current in the fields of emotion and attachment theory, affective neuroscience, and contemporary psychodynamic psychotherapy. The program of study is spread over four years (four yearly modules) with twenty 2-hour