Publications

The Role of Connective Tissue in Character Development and Defense

The Role of Connective Tissue in Character Development and Defense

Will Davis, 2018English

Reich's concept of muscular armour is re-evaluated whereby holdings in the myofascial system are primarily in connective tissue (CT), not the ...

The Importance of Connective Tissue for Body Psychotherapy and Functional Analysis

The Importance of Connective Tissue for Body Psychotherapy and Functional Analysis

Lilly Davis, 2018English

What is Connective Tissue? It is a living creative tissue

What are the Connective Tissue Functions? It connects, separates and creates. 

Ct ...

Affective Core Consciousness, the Instroke and the Endo Self

Affective Core Consciousness, the Instroke and the Endo Self

Will Davis, 2016English

In The id knows more than the Ego Admits, Solms and Panksepp have revolutionized our concepts of consciousness and unconsciousness. They bluntly ...

The Return to the Self: A Self Oriented Theory of Development and Psychotherapy

The Return to the Self: A Self Oriented Theory of Development and Psychotherapy

Will Davis, 2015English

In order to address an overemphasis on the role of the object, I discuss eight principles of a self relations theory: (1) There is an innate, ...

Verbal Work

Verbal Work

This is a PowerPoint Presentation presented first in the Senigallia Conference in 2016

Lilly Davis, 2015English

This is a PowerPoint Presentation presented first in the Senigallia Conference in 2016.

Working in France in my practice at our house. I see ...

A Self Model for Body-Oriented Psychotherapy

A Self Model for Body-Oriented Psychotherapy

Will Davis, 2014English

I present two major self-models: self as subject and self as object. My position is that in development and psychotherapy, there is an ...

In Support Of Body Psychotherapy

In Support Of Body Psychotherapy

Will Davis, 2012English

After an introduction to body psychotherapy, there is a discussion of the trend in verbal and cognitive therapies to include the body. This trend ...

Energetic and Therapeutic Touch

Energetic and Therapeutic Touch

Will Davis, 2006English

The energy concepts of Wilhelm Reich continue to be controversial. Recent research in the physical sciences, while not confirming Reich’s view ...

Evolution of a Reichian Therapy

Evolution of a Reichian Therapy

Will DavisEnglish

Speaking of the therapies that developed in the wake of Reich, his biographer, Myron Sharaf, describes Reich's legacy as a large mansion. Dotted ...

The Endopsychic Self

The Endopsychic Self

Will Davis, 2004English

In The Flesh of the Soul, Gustl Marlock and Halko Weiss’s article, “In Search of the Embodied Self”, focuses on the need for a theory of self and ...

Contribution to the Psychotherapy Dictionary (Wörterbuch der Psychotherapie)

Contribution to the Psychotherapy Dictionary (Wörterbuch der Psychotherapie)

Will Davis, 2000English

Definitions of Pulsation, Counter Pulsation,Instroke and Outstroke, Patterns of Charge, Theoretical Contributions. 

Elements of Building a Relationship

Elements of Building a Relationship

Embodying Relationship

Will Davis, 1999English

With this energetic and functional understanding, it is possible to view the themes of relationship building from a new perspective. Viewed ...

Touch, the Forgotten Language

Touch, the Forgotten Language

Will DavisEnglish

Hence, the first impulse of every creature must be a desire to establish contact with the outer world. Wilhelm Reich
In verbal based ...

Instroke - Empathy and the Therapeutic Relationship

Instroke - Empathy and the Therapeutic Relationship

Will Davis, 1999English

At the 4th International Biosynthesis Congress in 2006, Dr. Allan Schore made a presentation and participated in a panel discussion with David ...

An Introduction to the Instroke

An Introduction to the Instroke

Will Davis, 1999English

The development of working with the instroke of the pulsation of the life force was a major breakthrough in body psychotherapy. The effectiveness ...

Instroke - an Energetic Understanding of Integration

Instroke - an Energetic Understanding of Integration

Lilly Davis, 1999English

Integration is as much a state as a property of a healthy pulsation of the life force. It means to bring something together, connect it to ...

The Biological Foundations of the Schizoid Process - Part I & II

The Biological Foundations of the Schizoid Process - Part I & II

Will Davis, 1997English

Wilhelm Reich has shown us that muscular armoring is a neuro-muscular contractive reaction to physical and psychic stress. This contraction, held ...

The Way In

The Way In

Lilly Davis, 1999English

In therapy we focus on a person's behavior and how they understand themselves. Particularly we focus on their experience of relationships. The ...

Functional Analysis - A bodypsychotherapy

Functional Analysis - A bodypsychotherapy

First published as: Points and Positions - An outline of a Reichian Methodology

Will Davis, 1991English

I began developing Functional Analysis in 1984. At first I saw it as a simple technique for mobilizing energetic processes, similar to breathing ...

Transference

Transference

Will Davis, 1989English

Freud and the early analysts discovered the transference phenomenon and were initially confused and astounded at what occurred in these ...

Pulsation

Pulsation

Lilly Davis, 1989English

Longing, "cosmic longing", is one of the most important emotions we have. It is the result of the biological experience of growth, which in turn ...

On Working Energetically - Part II

On Working Energetically - Part II

Historical Material

Will Davis, 1989English

This is the second of two papers focusing on working from a Reichian energetic perspective. Both papers are intended to make the distinction more ...

On Working Energetically - Part I

On Working Energetically - Part I

Meaning and Expression

Will Davis, 1988

This is the first of two papers that attempts to define what it means to work therapeutically from a Reichian energetic perspective. The ...

Connective Tissue: the Psychosomatic Matrix

Connective Tissue: the Psychosomatic Matrix

Will DavisEnglish

My primary focus with patients has always been the relationship between their body and mind. Following the pioneering work of the Austrian ...

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