THE THERAPEUTIC PROCESS

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As significant amounts of armor are dissolved, the patient may experience streaming sensations in his body.  It is not unusual during therapy for involuntary movements to appear.  This is generally regarded as a positive development and encouraged, unless it begins to function as a resistance.

In orgonomy, the therapist generally begins work at the most superficial layer.  Superficial here is not meant in a derogatory way, but indicates those character traits and attitudes that are closest to the patient's conscious awareness.  Biophysical work usually begins at the head, the area farthest from the genital, and proceeds toward the pelvis, progressing to deeper layers as the course of therapy indicates.  For the vast majority of patients who have grown up in contactless families, this entails lengthy work on the ocular segment: the eyes and the related musculature.

It is necessary to first get the energy loosened up and moving in the upper segments before work proceeds to the deeper layers for a number of reasons.  Energy freed up from the higher (more superficial) layers can then be used to help in the push to work through the deeper segments.  Neglecting to adequately work through the higher segments first can lead down the road to a situation where the block then becomes even more entrenched and difficult, if not impossible, to dissolve.