Vegetotherapy

Vegetotherapy is a form of Reichian psychotherapy that involves the physical manifestations of emotions. The basic and founding text of vegetotherapy is Wilhelm Reich's Psychischer Kontakt und vegetative Strömung (1935), later included in the enlarged edition of Reich's Character Analysis (1933, 1949). The two goals are establishing the capacity of the "orgasm reflex" and orgastic potency, through alleviating a person's body armor and character armor that keep a person in a state of neurosis. Its name derives from its focus on the vegetative or autonomous nervous system. After Reich's claimed discovery of orgone or life energy, vegetotherapy was accordingly adapted and succeeded by "psychiatric orgone therapy".