GENERAL STATEMENTS ABOUT THERAPY

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Now some generalities concerning therapy.  Therapy is generally conducted once or twice a week, usually once a week, and in times of emergency, we see patients of course more frequently.  In incidence of, for example, panic attacks we see the patient maybe daily for a period of time.  All human emotions are elicited, or attempted to be elicited in the course of therapy, so that usually our offices are soundproofed to the extent that we can keep the neighbors from hearing what is going on.  Despite the fact that all emotions are elicited, there is a clear distinction made to all patients that there must be no destructiveness, they must not attempt to destroy me, nor my office, that the expression of meanness is not in the service of their emotional development.  On the side of the therapist, what we do is we probe painfully, we tickle, we stroke.

Because there is so much physical contact in orgonomy, it is made very clear to all of our trainees that there must be a categorical imperative: that there must be no hint of any kind of sexual process that passes between the therapist and the patient because the process itself is conducive to that kind of thing.  In the United States, our therapists must have completed standard psychiatric training and all people who are certified in orgonomy must be certified in psychiatry.