The Organism is a Storyteller: Five Organismic Epochs - Part One: From the Primordial Background to Sparagmos

Foundation essay hypothesizing the existence of five unfolding Organismic Epochs identifiable in both our collective history (collective unconscious) and in individual ontogenetic development. (2007, and republished September 2009)

The Embryonic Origin of Vegetative Armoring Part 1 (1984, 2008)

The Embryonic Origin of Vegetative Armoring Part 2 (1986, 2009)

My first attempt to identify the process in early ontogenetic embryonic development of fragmentation of the germ layers and the coming to dominance of a part as protective synthesis to maintain viability in an adrenaline dominant womb.

Depression Understood as a Collective Phenomenon - Presentation (2006)

Depression Understood as a Collective Phenomenon - Article (2008)

Here depression is presented as a creative phenomenon of protective synthesis to maintain groundedness in the body when external and internal stimuli are overwhelming the individual. Thus clinically the patient is encouraged to enter into and explore depression, rather than deny it.

Sparagmos: Fragmentation from the Mythological to the Clinical

A first attempt by the team of Riccardo Bianco and Richard Nathan to synthesize their collaboration in the psychiatric ward of our local hospital, Cittiglio, province of Varese, Italy. (1995)

What is the Relationship between Touch and the Therapeutic Process?

My first conclusions in 1980 about how to conduct an effective body psychotherapy using direct touch. This first appeared in Washington D.C. and republished in 2008

The Organismic Approach in Sport

A conversation with the coach of the Italian football squad (soccer) of Torino on the advantages of a deepened sensory awareness to improve sport performance. (1987)

The First Phases of a Psycho-Organismic Approach with an Institutionalized Psychiatric Patient: The Meeting with Francesca

Creativity

This is an attempt to identify a universal process behind all therapeutic models (1998)

Bodypsychotherapy in America

My first series of bodypsychotherapy training (1982)

For Dancers and Non-Dancers Alike

A description of my earliest work in direct touch with the body (1977)

Basic Assumptions of the Introductory Six-Class Seminar in Humanistic Bodypsychotherapy

(1982)

Sparagmos:
A Body Psychotherapy Workshop

In this workshop, we began elaborating an approach to specific work in grounding clients, “a return to the body,” and exploring a remedy for what is happening in us both in terms of the background, national and global culture and how that affects us beyond our personal histories. “The shadow of the unresolved body/mind split exists in the present…” (2007)