ENERGY MOVEMENT
[ Introduction ] [ Energy Movement ] [ How We Got There ] [ Fight or Flight ] [ More Contact ] [ Incipient Armoring ] [ Chronic Armoring ] [ Tools of Therapy ] [ Therapeutic Process ] [ Acting Out ] [ Concluding Remarks ]
Psychiatric orgone therapy is concerned
with the movement of energy in the human
organism. It approaches the individual as an energetic pulsating being.
Natural pulsation is the movement between full expansion and contraction.
One cannot exist without the other, and for a person to experience life
fully one needs to be able to swing between both poles. The manifestations
of expansion and contraction in organ systems is explained elsewhere, and
while all emotional life functions within organs of the body in a unitary
manner, for the purpose of brevity and illustration, we will be discussing
in this format the emotional life of the individual.
Pleasure is an emotion that is directed
toward the world and is considered expansive. Rage
is also an emotion that is directed outward towards the world but,
unlike pleasure, does
not fully expand outwardly. Emotions such as anxiety, fear, and sadness
are examples of emotions that lead away from the world; in these cases
the energy is moving
inward, contracting, from the periphery of the person toward the center
of the person.
