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character typology
Sensitive/Withdrawn (Schizoid)
psychospiritual approaches
definition
character typology of Reich and Lowen:
SENSITIVE/WITHDRAWN (SCHIZOID):
etiology: Child's early experience of the world is harsh and unwelcoming; child is not treated gently and lovingly. Example: birth trauma or mother out of touch with infant's needs.
characteristics: Sense of self is diminished in attempt to draw back from the world; out of contact with the world and the self, loses contact with external reality, dissociates thinking from feeling, fixated in abstract world.
physical appearance: Body unintegrated; contracted inward, right/left split, uncoordinated, twisting as if trying to get away, mechanical and disjointed movement; voice mechanical and confusing, paradoxical breathing.
strengths: Perceptive, sensitive, spiritual, often psychic; active fantasy, uses the world of symbolism well
life orientation: "I can exist if I do not need." Person tends to stay in a state of isolation.
(Wambach and Daggett)
see:
character typology of Reich and Lowen: Introduction
body reveals: the spirit
exploratory or investigative?
process paradigm
Reichian therapy
subjective inquiry approach
the shadow and physical symptoms
footnotes