Yesterday I saw a friend who had had a nasty car accident at the beginning of January. She had a compound fracture of her humerus and a lot of associated soft tissue damage. Her arm was immobilised in a sling and she could only sleep sitting up, I felt that she was still carrying a [...]

Chronic psychosomatic tension refers to long-term imbalances in psychic and muscular tone that manifest in the mind and body in a coordinated way. Early researchers in the field of psychotherapy recognised the essential unity of the mind and body. However, the most influential of them, Sigmund Freud, excluded the body from a meaningful position in [...]