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Dr. Frisch now offers an Online Group Coaching Program starting October 26, 2018!Dr. Frisch is now offering an Online Group Coaching Program designed to deepen your understanding of Dr. Frisch’s method provided through the affiliated Audio CD/MP3 Series. Join a community with other students and professionals that offers you a dedicated learning path, an opportunity for in-depth discussion, Q&A, case presentation, and experiential dyads. The group offers you feedback from colleagues and Dr. Frisch and helps you integrate and apply this material to your current practice. Click here for more information.
Dr. Patricia Frisch’s book Whole Therapist, Whole Patient: Integrating Reich, Masterson, and Jung in Modern Psychotherapy Published by Routledge/Taylor & Francis 2018
Foreword by Judith Pearson, Director, The International Masterson Institute!
“Dr. Patricia Frisch’s book is a must-read guidebook for psychologists, psychiatrists, mental health and medical professionals. Anyone interested in psychology, personality or character types, verbal analysis, and somatic approaches will enjoy her lively discussion. It includes an easy-to-read, step-by-step methodology for treating the whole patient while supporting the whole therapist. The reader is introduced to Wilhelm Reich, the father of somatic psychology and character analysis, James Masterson M.D. and Carl Jung.”
Whole Therapist, Whole Patient: Integrating Reich, Masterson, and Jung in Modern Psychotherapy is filled with tools and techniques for therapists, instructions on dream analysis, case management, working with difficult patients and much more.
You can watch Dr. Frisch’s book event at book Passage in Corte Madera here.
Dr. Frisch also offers an 8-week Online Interactive Book Discussion Group designed for all audiences and focuses on the following:
- Discussion of important themes: Organized reading together, assigning chapters, and lively interaction.
- Participants include patients, interested public, therapists, or healthcare professionals.
This interactive group consists of 6-10 members and is 1hr 15 min in length.
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My video book interview is available and you can watch it here. In this 30-minute segment, I reveal the table of contents, discuss the purpose of the book, and elaborate on other relevant topics. You’ll also see interesting footage of past trainings and patient demos and see film of my office and where I wrote the book.
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Blog Post: Mind-Body: Our Gut-Brain Connection
Orgonomy is a mind-body analytic approach that understands the functional relationship between the two; it does not hold a dualistic conceptualization of mind as separate from body. Orgonomy treats the problematic character defenses and how those very character patterns translate as body “armor”, and manifest in a variety of biophysical symptoms.
A relatively new area of research is making strides in the microbiome-brain connection and its relationship to mental health disorders. This research is illustrative of the profound interconnectedness of the mind and the body. The research into the microbiome-gut-brain axis, as it is referenced, is attempting to solve the riddles of how gut bacteria within the microbiota may affect our mental/physical states. Using fecal transplants and other research designs with both mice and human subjects, the edges of the puzzle are beginning to form. A decade ago, this idea was seen by scientists as hogwash and was emphatically rejected, but now international researchers are peering into the microbes within our microbiome to isolate specific ones that might correlate with certain diseases.
They do know that the microbiome-gut-brain axis is a circular process and can be impacted at either end, resulting in a variety of interesting hypotheses; it is bidirectional. Therefore changes in attitude and mental states may affect the microbiome, just as the microbiome affects our psychological condition.
To read more of this post, please click Mind-Body: Our Gut-Brain Connection
About the Orgonomic Institute of Northern California
The Orgonomic Institute of Northern California (OINC) provides clinical training for students and professionals in Wilhelm Reich’s Orgonomic Therapy and Dr. Patricia Frisch’s innovative method: Integrating Reich, Masterson and Jung. OINC also offers online group coaching, practice consultation and therapy services.
Dr. Frisch also offers a full range of courses for students and mental health professionals that are CE accredited through CPA OPD and other licensing boards that accredit: MFTs, Nurses LCSWs and others.
Click here for 2018 Classes Offered.
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Our therapy model is very active and engages the client in a process of transformation that is palpable after the first session. Dr. Frisch’s unique synthesis utilizes the principles and techniques of Wilhelm Reich updated with complimentary theoreticians. As the father of somatic psychology, Reich created a mind/body discipline that incorporates biophysical interventions through breath, direct manipulation, and physical expression. This biophysical work is paired with verbal analysis that captures each client’s character type and helps shift patterns that have caused pain and suffering – all contained within a strong, spirited relationship between client and therapist. The result is profound character transformation and significantly lower levels of stress, muscular contraction, and physical and psychological symptoms such as depression and anxiety. Dr. Frisch helps with relationship issues and supports transformative, transcendental objectives when applicable.
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Orgonomy and the Work of Wilhelm Reich
Watch this 2-minute excerpt from SAGE Video Collections, which briefly describes the practice of Orgonomy. SAGE asked Dr. Patricia Frisch to join their reference library as an author in order to help viewers understand this powerful somatic therapy. The full 30-minute video can be accessed through SAGE. Let us know what you think of the clip: assist@orgonomictherapy.com.
Training Options with OINC:
Live Classes - Learn characteranalytic and biophysical interventions.
Click here for 2018 Classes Offered.
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Mill Valley Professional Supervision Group: A forum for discussion of cases, with case presentations.
Click here for 2018 Supervision Group dates.
Click here to 2018 Supervision group dates.
Audio and MP3 Independent Study Distance Learning
Free Masters-Level Bodywork: Volunteer as a demonstration “patient”. Call 415-388-0622 or email pfrisch@me.com.
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Patricia R. Frisch, Ph.D., psychologist, MFT, is an expert in Wilhelm Reich’s characteranalytic and somatic approach, known as Orgonomy. She has created her own unique method, integrating Masterson, and Jung with Reich that defines the nuts and bolts of clinical practice. Reichian theory is at heart of current somatic approaches. As founder and Director of The Orgonomic Institute of Northern California (OINC), she supervises and trains professionals in Orgonomy: characteranalysis, somatic interventions, diagnostic typologies, and enhanced clinical skills at her own facility and at clinics in the Bay Area. She led workshops at Esalen® Institute for 10 years. Dr. Frisch has created a comprehensive audio training program, which provides long-distance learning and certification options to students throughout the U.S. and internationally. She is the author of Whole Therapist, Whole Patient: Integrating Reich, Masterson and Jung in Modern Psychotherapy published by Routledge/Taylor & Francis. She also authored the Orgonomy (Reichian Therapy) chapter of SAGE Publications’ (2015) Encyclopedia of Theory in Counseling and Psychotherapy and published a video through SAGE (2015). She maintains an active private practice in Mill Valley, California. To learn more, please click Dr. Frisch.
