Austrian psychoanalyst Wilhelm Reich pioneered the field of body psychotherapy, which he originally called what?
Body psychotherapy Body psychotherapy, also called body-oriented psychotherapy, is an approach to psychotherapy which applies basic principles of somatic psychology. It originated in the work of Pierre Janet, Sigmund Freud and particularly Wilhelm Reich who developed it as vegetotherapy.
John Steiner (psychoanalyst) John Steiner is a psychoanalyst, author and trainer at the British Psychoanalytical Society. Steiner, a 'prolific London post-Kleinian', is best known for his conceptions of the "pathological organisation" or the "psychic retreat"...between the paranoid-schizoid and the depressive positions'. His book "Psychic Retreats" describes a treatment methodology for patients with complex defence mechanisms that are difficult to treat with conventional psychoanalysis.