Body Psychotherapy and Psychosomatics

In episode 4, "Psychoanalysis", Stephen R King and Robert Price talk about the history of psychoanalytic technique and how this may have influenced body psychotherapy as a profession. Freud wrote across 24 volumes, introducing ideas that continue to shape psychotherapy, medicine, and contemporary discussions around embodiment. While many aspects of his work remain controversial, concepts such as r...

In this episode we explore the enduring relevance of Studies on Hysteria, the landmark 1895 work by Sigmund Freud and Josef Breuer. Often regarded as the starting point of psychoanalysis, the book proposed a radical idea for its time: that bodily symptoms may express unresolved emotional experiences rather than structural disease. We discuss the historical context in which hysteria emerged as a di...

Episode 2: Jean-Martin Charcot, hypnosis, and hysteria (Body Psychotherapy & Psychosomatics) Episode overview In this episode we trace a “lineage of ideas” from early psychosomatic thinking (Heinroth) into Charcot’s Salpêtrière—where hysteria becomes a neurological problem to be classified, demonstrated, and (attempted to be) treated. We explore hypnosis as both clinical method and spectacle,...

Join Robert Price and Stephen R. King to talk about Johann Christian August Heinroth (1773–1843). This historical figure occupies a foundational yet curiously marginal position in the history of psychiatry, psychosomatics, and what would now be recognised as body psychotherapy. A German physician and the first appointed professor of “psychische Heilkunde” (psychiatric medicine) at the University o...

Join Stephen R. King and Robert Price as they begin this journey in untangling the mysterious field of Body Psychotherapy and Psychosomatics. In this trailer, you'll hear all about what they think of the field, the lineage of the work and what the vision is for the podcast. Where they discuss Reich, Boyeson, Heinroth, Freud and others. To join the SOMATICS SCHOOL for free:  https://...