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If the psychotherapies take care of the pains of the mind, they can make it through the intermediary of the body. Sophrology, réflexologie, hydrotherapy. numerous methods propose to modify the relation with his body thus. The psychotherapies are before all verbal. They rest on the indisputable principle according to which the mind determines our emotions, our anguishes but also the bodily demonstrations of the emotion: one is able all to reach by the speech therefore. But if the mind orders to the body, it has been proven that what happens in the organism also sounds on the mind. From where the idea to leave from the body to improve, or even to heal the psychic dysfunctions. The therapies using the body thus as mediator is numerous. They rest on very varied theoretical bases, but remain essentially empiric. All look for to modify the patient's relation with himself while addressing to his body. ..The massages and neighboring practices They simply try to loosen the body, to suppress tensions, the contractures, in particular in the regions paravertebrales and to the level of the neck. These tensions evidently have a psychic origin, they are often bound to stress. But while reducing them, one loosens and one gets a moral well-being securing. Some specialized techniques (shiatsu), of oriental origin, rather use pressures localized on some parts of the body ..Hydrotherapy It is one of the most former techniques of approach of the body to reach psyche. The showers are known since the antique. They can be short to strong throw, possibly cold, and have a stimulating effect then. On the contrary long, to weak throw, possibly tepid, these have a calming effect. Work in swimming pool is near. And the technique more specialized of the "packs" especially address to more serious illnesses: she consists in enveloping the patients then in cold sheets to warm them progressively in order to make feel them the limits of body and to reinforce their identity. ..The bioenergy This method drifts of the works of William Reich, it tries to reduce tensions, to free the emotions and energies blocked, this by a work on the muscles and the tendons. Some exercises are drifted of yoga. ..The sophrology Come from the Indies, this method looks for modifications of the conscience state, but without reaching hypnosis. One places the topic in a certain sensory isolation to increase his possibilities in the domain of the memory and to encourage his imaginary, what contributes to his balance. ..The reflexologie This technique leaves from the principle according to which all parts of our body and our organs would project themselves on the foot in points reflexes where crystallize of the painful zones. One is going to massage these points to re-establish a harmonious circulation of the energies, to free the tensions of the organism, to revitalize it. ..The methods of relaxation The methods of relaxation can be merely muscular. They consist in discerning the local tensions and to reduce them by the mobilization of the movements adapted. They are practiced then by physical therapists. These methods can take the shape of a more specialized technique, the autogenous training of Schulz. One joins here a mental approach to the bodily approach. By repeated exercises, one makes the patient of the lost sensations feel: heat, heaviness, quiet, in order to make recover him a mastery of his body and the his functions. Finally methods of relaxation exist more especially psychoanalytic, near of the previous or the accent is put on the relation with the therapist, and the activity fantasmatique developed by the topic. The indications All these methods have their specialized technicians. They address to the same unrests, notably the states of stress, with their various physical consequences. But also the generalized anxiety, the neurotic unrests, the light depression, the psychosomatic unrests touch most organs, the sexual unrests. Only the packs are reserved to serious mental patients.
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