title: [Body-centered psychotherapy IKP: holistic psychotherapy of anxiety disorders].
abstract: After describing the difference between body therapies and body-centered psychotherapies, the methods of body-centered psychotherapy IKP are treated in this article. In order to explain the reduction of panic by motor activity, neurophysiological hypothesis are also discussed. Assuming that symptoms of panic are no "psycho"-pathological symptoms but multidimensional pathological phenomenon, the therapeutic approach has to be holistic and multirelational. Activating resources of the six different life dimensions also belongs to the holistic IKP approach. This way of holistic-multirelational thinking is demonstrated along two case studies.
authors.affiliation: Institut für Körperzentrierte Psychotherapie IKP, Zürich.
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authors.lastname: Maurer-Groeli
mesh_terms: D001008:Anxiety Disorders / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000523:psychology / Q000628:therapy*; D001143:Arousal; D003131:Combined Modality Therapy; D006801:Humans; D016584:Panic Disorder / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000523:psychology / Q000628:therapy; D026741:Physical Therapy Modalities / Q000523:psychology*; D011613:Psychotherapy / Q000379:methods*; D013001:Somatoform Disorders / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000523:psychology / Q000628:therapy*