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As professionals, we are forever seeking better answers to the essential therapeutic challenge: How do we best help our clients/patients escape the restrictive conditioning of their past and reclaim their vital, joyful lives? Reichian/Orgonomic therapy is a powerful strategy that allows us to work both verbally and biophysically to directly alter the cellular memory bank of the body and dissolve negative patterns that manifest as personality distortions.
The Orgonomic Institute of Northern California trains physicians, clinical psychologists, and other qualified licensed mental health professionals in the principles and practice of Medical Orgonomy, Orgonomic Bio-psychotherapy, and character-analysis.
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Education in the principles of character development |
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Treatment of chronic personality disorders |
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Stress reduction through mind-body emotional and biophysical release |
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Restoring bio-physical heath |
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Reich on the inextricable link between body and mind:
“Just as all emotions and reactions in life spring from and correspond to organ sensations and expressive movements; just as the living organism forms ideas of its surrounding world from impressions it derives from the expressions of the world around it; so all emotions, reactions and ideas of the armored organism are conditioned by its own state of motility and expression.“ |
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Orgonomic Therapy gives us an understanding of how survival styles become rigidified as defenses/character styles that permeate deep within our entire biological system. Recent advances in neuroscience demonstrate that our earliest attachment experiences in infancy radically affect the development of the brain with major ramifications on our entire ability to function. The mind/body connection is profound and as professionals we can intervene to repair the ruptures in self-regulation that occur at the deepest levels.
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Recognizing the ways in which the various character types present themselves |
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Diagnostic criteria |
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Therapeutic strategies |
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Facilitating characteranalytic group process for small groups and larger workshops |
Reich's theory connects the functional identity of the character structure with the individual physical/energetic system. His typology of segmental muscular armoring is presented along with a treatment approach to the attendant energy problems and symptoms affecting all aspects of physical functioning. Deep massage, facilitation of natural respiration, and other interventions assist the release of muscular armoring and open the body to full energetic functioning.
Clinicians are the instrument of change. The training insists that to facilitate deep psychological work with others, clinicians must face their own personal material. Our therapeutic skill depends on our honest self-awareness and emotional/energetic openness. Our trainings are an opportunity to confront barriers to deep contactful relationship with clients. If we are our authentic self with obvious freedom, we will catalyze our clients.
These character analytic techniques, elicitation of negative transference and work on body armor demand even greater inner knowledge and flexibility of ego on the part of the therapist. This training will address those aspects of trainees' character structure that stand in the way of these qualities. |
Dr. Blasband on verbal precision:
“In my 45 years of training and experience as a therapist, I have found that the precise words addressed to the patient's character has more effect than any other intervention including work on the muscular armoring. These words may be rendered seriously, with humor, wittingly or unwittingly, depending upon the situation, the state of the patient, and the proclivities and structure of the therapist.“ |
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Our trainings are an intensive, confrontational, personally demanding process for those who wish to learn and experience this analytic/somatic approach to treatment. Challenging parts of the workshop are balanced with times of relaxation, playfulness, and humor.
Mastery of the verbal character-analytic technique is a prerequisite to advanced theoretical and experiential work on releasing muscular armoring, the restoration of natural breathing, energy activation, and affective release.
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Introduction
The “working therapist” has a challenging profession. Many find themselves entrenched in treatment protocols that are stagnant or fail to produce desired results. We believe clinicians can invigorate their approach and bring new vitality to their work. True excitement – and transformation - lies in traversing a path of continual inspiration, learning, and creativity.
We would like to expose more clinicians and graduate students to the important contributions Wilhelm Reich made to clinical practice. He was a master at character interventions that could quickly and deeply facilitate patient break-through, allowing them to make contact with their authentic self and their core feelings. Reich’s characteranalysis is a skill that allows maximum efficiency in interventions and moves the patient beyond their facade and into profound honesty. Some therapists, when they are first introduced to the theory and practice of Orgonomic Therapy, see it as a bit “out of the box” in its spontaneous, liberating style. Orgonomic Therapy’s unique approach is an effective antidote for the compelling, deadening counter pull of patients’ habitual homeostasis. As therapists, we need to move from stale interventions to meaningful exchange. We teach this method of character intervention because of its great effectiveness.
This group of modular training sessions is designed to prepare the clinician/student for the next stage of proficiency, the Advanced Training Course in Orgonomic Therapy, which teaches the corollary approach of somatic interventions. Wilhelm Reich is often credited with being the father of somatic therapies. Most mental health professionals practice verbal analytic therapy but few clinicians are trained to include somatic interventions to facilitate patients in releasing the deep-seated affect and habitual muscular holding that lead to chronic stress-related symptoms and disease. The mind/body connection is real and as professionals we can intervene to repair the ruptures in self-regulation that occur at the deepest levels. Recent advances in neuroscience demonstrate that our earliest attachment experiences in infancy radically affect the development of the brain with major ramifications on our entire ability to function.
General Program Description
These series of classes, several of which can be taken independently or in any order, are designed to provide professionals and students with training in the practice of Orgonomic Therapy. Introductory Modules are for the student and professional who are just beginning on this path; Intermediate Modules are designed to deepen the students’ understanding of and ability to practice Orgonomic Therapy. Teachings from Carl Jung and others will be seamlessly woven into the training. This Modular Clinical Training program in Orgonomic Therapy will teach certain non-bodywork aspects of Reich’s approach and will integrate contributions from other theoreticians including object relations and Jungian practice, which provide a thoroughness to the approach.
Schedule/Hours: Training Modules are each 14 hours in length, occurring over 2 days. Saturdays & Sundays: Training 9:00am-12:30pm, Lunch 12:30-2:00pm, Training 2:00-5:30pm.
Location: Various venues in the San Francisco Bay Area (TBA)
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Basics of Wilhelm Reich’s theory and clinical application |
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Integration and amplification of the theories of Wilhelm Reich, Carl Jung, and James Masterson |
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Character diagnosis: pregenital and neurotic character disorders: including advanced material in diagnosis and treatment |
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Establishing effective contact with patients utilizing character analysis |
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Basics of segmental armoring and how to diagnose armoring |
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How to manage a case: therapeutic frame, ethics, policies and procedures |
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Working effectively with resistance |
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The therapeutic relationship |
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Transference, countertransference |
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The business of therapy: moving from underpaid counselors to empowered clinicians |
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Tools for effective therapy |
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Therapy as personal transformation with the healthy patient |
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Working outside the box: creativity and the art of therapy |
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Dialogue with the unconscious: Jung’s concepts of dream analysis and individuation |
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Integration of relevant clinical information from other sources
Supervision of cases |
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Practicum training in clinical intervention skills in a safe setting |
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Learning Methods: Lectures/Discussions, Creative arts expression, Experiential dyadic practice, Case supervision (tapes, process notes), and Demonstrations
Prerequisites: Students must be mental health professionals, such as LMFT, LCSW, Psychologists, Psychiatrists, or graduate students in a graduate program leading to licensure in these fields. We also invite health care professionals, such as nurses, to join us. Students registering for Intermediate Modules must have completed both Intro Module Part 1 and Part 2, or their equivalent.
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August 23rd & 24th, 2008 – Intro Module Part 1: Introduction to Reich |
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September 27th & 28th, 2008 – Intro Module Part 2: Incorporating Masterson with Reich |
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November 1st & 2nd, 2008 – Intermediate Module: Wilhelm Reich’s Diagnostic Typology |
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January 10th & 11th, 2009 – Intermediate Module: Working Outside the Box |
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February 21st & 22nd, 2009– Intermediate Module: Working the Therapeutic Relationship |
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April 18th & 19th, 2009 – Intermediate Module: Middle Phase of Treatment |
Continuing Education Credit:
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For California Licensed Psychologists: Each individual module listed in this document has been submitted to the MCEPAA for approval. |
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For MFT’s and LCSW’s: Application submitted to the Board of Behavioral Sciences to become a C.E. Provider. |
Instructors: Patricia R. Frisch, Ph.D., Executive Director of the Orgonomic Institute of Northern California and Richard Blasband, M.D. Adjunct Faculty. Dr. Frisch, an orgonomic therapist, has decades of experience in private practice and group therapy. Dr. Blasband was trained as an orgonomic physician by Elsworth Baker, M.D. who was appointed by Reich to train psychiatrists. Learn more about Drs. Frisch, Blasband, and the Orgonomic Institute of Northern California by clicking here.
To receive detailed program descriptions with tuition, policy, and other information, or to request an Application: Contact The Orgonomic Institute of Northern California at 415-388-0622 or email assist@orgonomictherapy.com.
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The Orgonomic Institute of Northern California is currently conducting supervisory group sessions with qualified mental health practitioners in the principles of character analysis and theory, and techniques of psychodynamic psychotherapy, which meets every three weeks. Through the use of didactic lectures/discussion, case analysis, and supervision, students will become familiar with character-analytic techniques and how they can be utilized in their practices. Orgonomic psychotherapy supervisory sessions are conducted by Patricia Frisch, Ph.D. Meetings occur in Marin County, California, in the San Francisco Bay Area.
Dr. Frisch also conducts private, hourly supervision sessions available to graduate students, interns, and licensed professionals. Those interested should contact Dr. Frisch at 415-388-0622 or pfrisch@pacbell.net. |
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The Fundamentals of Wilhelm Reich's Orgonomic Therapy - Be the Instrument of Change: Facade to Self |
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