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Concentrative movement therapy (CMT) is a psychotherapeutic method for group and individual therapy which is based on thought models stemming from developmental psychology and depth psychology. Taking as its point of departure the theory that perception is comprised of sensation and experience (Viktor von Weizsäcker), CMT is interested in the conscious perception of the body in the “here and now“ against the background of the individual life and learning story [1] . Hans Baldung Grien: The Ages And Death, c. ...
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PSYCHOLOGY In psychology and the cognitive sciences, perception is the process of acquiring, interpreting, selecting, and organizing sensory information. ...
In psychology, sensation is the first stage in the chain of biochemical and neurologic events that begins with the impinging of a stimulus upon the receptor cells of a sensory organ, which then leads to perception, the mental state that is reflected in statements like I see a uniformly blue...
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Viktor Freiherr von Weizsäcker (* 21 April 1886 in Stuttgart; †9 January 1957 in Heidelberg) was a German physician. ...
General Through the concentrative engagement with early levels of experience, memories are brought to life which appear in bodily expression as posture, movement and behaviour. Like the material which appears in dreams, subjective bodily experience also contains information which can extend back to preverbal times. Bodily movements or bodily contact call forth a patient’s basic postures. Through the movement work the biographical material is made topical so that a correlation can be made between what a person has experienced and that person’s life story. “The primary process-like level of experience and the secondary process-like level of spoken expression constitute a unity. Through this, speaking acquires the following meaning: What has been experienced is, in the act of being spoken of, conceptualized, and consequently brought to the levels of thought, association, reflection and communication. This is how the sensory-emotional is linked to the linguistic-cognitive cycle in the sense of V. v. Weizsäcker’s Gestaltkreis. Association may refer to: A voluntary association (also sometimes called an association) is a group of individuals who voluntarily enter into an agreement, explicit or implicit, to form or act as a body (or organization) to accomplish a purpose. ...
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Viktor Freiherr von Weizsäcker (* 21 April 1886 in Stuttgart; †9 January 1957 in Heidelberg) was a German physician. ...
When we speak of movement therapy, by movement we understand the following:
- To-move-oneself, the experience of movement includes a person’s sensorimotor functions.
- To-be-moved, what internally moves and has been moved (affects and emotions).
- To-be-on-the-way, that means the person’s developmental steps and his gradual progress in the overcoming of actual or fantasized external or internal impediments.
Areas of application Clinical patients and outpatients in individual or group therapy: - Psychosomatics
- Early disturbances: narcissistic and borderline disturbances; in particular, body-schema and body-image disturbances
- Neurotic disturbances
- Illnesses resulting from addictions
- Crisis intervention
- Acute reaction to pressure
- Traumas
- Psychoses
- Morbid anxiety
- Compulsion disturbance
- Eating disorder
- Depression
- Chronic illnesses with pain
- Consciousness raising
- Adult education
History The Munich physician and psychotherapist Helmut Stolze used the method in the university-clinical field and named it “Concentrative movement therapy” in 1958. From this moment on CMT was teached as a special method on congresses and was more and more represented in the psychotherapeutic practice. Physician examining a child A physician is a person who practices medicine. ...
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References - ^ "Pokorny, Hochgerner; Cserny: Konzentrative Bewegungstherapie, Von der körperorientierten Methode zum psychotherapeutischen Verfahren", March , 1996.
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