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An List Of: Talking Therapies/Counselling For Mental Health/Depression: Biofeedback: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biofeedback

Biofeedback is a form of alternative medicine that involves measuring a subject's bodily processes such as blood pressure, heart rate, skin temperature, galvanic skin response (sweating), and muscle tension and conveying such information to him or her in real-time in order to raise his or her awareness and conscious control of the related physiological activities.

By providing access to physiological information about which the user is generally unaware, biofeedback allows users to gain control over physical processes previously considered automatic.

Interest in biofeedback has waxed and waned since its inception in the 1960s; at the beginning of the 21st century it is undergoing something of a renaissance, which some ascribe to the general upswing of interest in alternative medicine modalities.

Neurofeedback has become a popular treatment for ADHD; electromyogram (muscle tension) biofeedback has been widely studied and accepted as a treatment for incontinence disorders, and small home biofeedback machines are becoming available for a variety of uses.

Its role in controlling hypertension is becoming recognised [1].

An List Of: Talking Therapies/Counselling For Mental Health/Depression: Bodymind: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bodymind

Bodymind is a compound conjunction of body and mind and may be used differently in different traditions and scientific disciplines.

The conceptual separation of body and mind may be charted to Cartesian dualism.

These different understandings often inform each other.

Bracken and Thomas state that: \"in recent years neuroscientists and cognitive psychologists have argued that this ontological separation of mind and body is no longer tenable.\"[1]

Buddhist philosopher, Herbert V. Günther has stated:

What we call 'body' and 'mind' are mere abstractions from an identity experience that cannot be reduced to the one or the other abstraction, nor can it be hypostatized into some sort of thing without falsifying its very being.[2]

An List Of: Talking Therapies/Counselling For Mental Health/Depression: Body Psychotherapy: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Body_psychotherapy

Body Psychotherapy [1] (also known as body-oriented psychotherapy) is a branch of Somatic Psychology and Psychotherapy with origins in clinical psychology and in the work of Pierre Janet and Sigmund Freud [2].

Body psychotherapy addresses both the body and the mind as a whole with emphasis on the reciprocal relationships within body and mind [3].

One branch of body psychotherapy evolved from the work of Wilhelm Reich, author of Character Analysis and many other books, and who developed his form of \"Psychoanalysis\" into what he called Vegetotherapy or Character-Analytic Vegetotherapy.

When he moved to America in 1939, he proceeded to influence therapists both in the United States and in Europe. Many of these therapists practiced and developed their own (neo-)Reichian therapy.

Another branch has evolved out of Arnie and Amy Mindell's work with the dreambody [4].

Mindell, once a Jungian analyst, began researching illness as a meaningful expression of the unconscious mind.

This is an integrative approach to illness [5], which addresses the cultural, emotional, spiritual and physical connections that illness invites.

The dreambody is believed to be an organizing principle in the background somewhat like a morphogenetic field (sensu Rupert Sheldrake).

Other branches trace their roots to individual founders of distinctive forms such as Rolfing to Ida Rolf and biodynamic psychology to Gerda Boyesen (see below).

The term Body psychotherapy was utilised first in the 1980s as professional associations in this type of psychotherapy began to form.

There are now associations of Body psychotherapy around the world and many journals inclduing the USABP Journal of Body Psychotherapy.

An List Of: Talking Therapies/Counselling For Mental Health/Depression: Brief therapy: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brief_therapy

Brief Therapy is an umbrella term for a variety of approaches to psychotherapy.

It differs from other schools of therapy in that it emphasises (1) a focus on a specific problem and (2) direct intervention.

In brief therapy, the therapist takes responsibility for working more pro-actively with the client in order to treat clinical and subjective conditions faster.

It also emphasizes precise observation, utilization of natural resources, and temporary suspension of disbelief to consider new perspectives and multiple viewpoints.

Rather than the formal analysis of historical causes of distress, the primary approach of brief therapy is to help the client to view the present from a wider context and to utilize more functional understandings (not necessarily at a conscious level).

By becoming aware of these new understandings, successful clients will de facto undergo spontaneous and generative change.

Brief therapy is often highly strategic, exploratory, and solution-based rather than problem-oriented.

It is less concerned with how a problem arose than with the current factors sustaining it and preventing change.

Brief therapists do not adhere to one \"correct\" approach, but rather accept that there being many paths, any of which may or may not in combination turn out to be ultimately beneficial.

An List Of: Talking Therapies/Counselling For Mental Health/Depression: Classical Adlerian psychotherapy: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Classical_Adlerian_Psychotherapy

Classical Adlerian individual psychotherapy, brief therapy, couple therapy, and family therapy follow parallel paths.

Clients are encouraged to overcome their feelings of insecurity, develop deeper feelings of connectedness, and to redirect their striving for significance into more socially beneficial directions.

Through a respectful Socratic dialogue, they are challenged to correct mistaken assumptions, attitudes, behaviors and feelings about themselves and the world.

Constant encouragement stimulates clients to attempt what was previously felt as impossible.

The growth of confidence, pride, and gratification leads to a greater desire and ability to cooperate.

The objective of Classical Adlerian psychotherapy is to replace exaggerated self-protection, self-enhancement, and self-indulgence with courageous social contribution.

An List Of: Talking Therapies/Counselling For Mental Health/Depression: Characteranalytic Vegetotherapy: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vegetotherapy

Vegetotherapy is a form of psychotheraphy that involves the physical manifestations of emotions.

The basic and founding text of vegetotherapy is Wilhelm Reich's Psychischer Kontakt und vegetative Stroemung (1935), later included in the enlarged edition of Reich's Character Analysis (1933, 1949).

The practice of vegetotherapy involves the analyst asking the patient to physically simulate the bodily effects of strong emotions.

This simulation causes the patient to experience the emotions simulated, thus releasing emotions pent up inside both the body and the psyche.

The catharsis of emotive expression breaks down the cathexis of stored emotions.

While experiencing a simulated emotional state, the patient may reflect on past experiences which should have caused that emotion, but where the emotion has not been fully resolved.

These emotions are described as stored emotions, and in Reichian analysis are seen as manifesting in the body.

Vegetotherapy relies of a theory of stored emotions, or affects, where emotions build tensions in the structure of the body. This tension can be seen in posture, facial expression or muscular stress.

Examples of vegetotherapy and interviews with analysts and patients who have undergone vegetotherapy, can be seen in the film Room for Happiness, directed by Dick Young and approved by the American College of Orgonomy.