French Society of Psychotherapeutic
Relaxation
Welcome to the server of the
S.F.R.P.
Association Law 1901
WHAT
IS PSYCHOTHERAPEUTIC RELAXATION ?
Relaxation proceeds
from a group of therapeutic techniques which aim to relax the muscles and mind.
We believe that psychotherapeutic relaxation is distinct from techniques of
rest treatment, massage. & gymnastics (which are often exploited for
promotional/commercial ends . )
We define
relaxation as a corporeal mediation psychotherapy, centred on a research that
has a somatic starting point. The objectives of psychotherapeutic relaxation
are :
muscular and
psychic relaxation
the personal
blossoming of the subject.
The process of
profound change in the subject's affective & emotional life involves
mobilizing the imaginary, and working on the somato-psychic experience and
psychic productions - induced by muscular and psychic release .
Psychotherapeutic
relaxation is represented by a number of techniques. which have three important
point s in common:
- mental concentration on
the muscular tone (aiming at relaxation, but also on the sensations and
emotions, which constitute a path to the personality in itS tot&lilty);
- the taking into account
of the relationship between the therapist and the relaxed in its specific
dynamics;
- mobilizing interventions
of the therapist at privileged moment of the treatment, by movement,
touch, word, or voice.
- Psychotherapeutic relaxation
can be well accomplished only on the condition that the relaxer is a
psychotherapist.
S.F.R.P.'s
ACTIVITIES
The French Society
of Psychotherapeutic Relaxation S.F.R.P. has been created in order to :
- on the one hand,
promote in France and abroad relaxation as a psychotherapy a make it known to
general practitioners, specialists, psychotherapists, psychologists,
psychomotricians.
- on the other
hand, to gather as widely as possible, without school labels, all the
psychotherapists that practice relaxation.
S.F.R.P.'s ACTIVITIES
MEMBERSHIP
There are two ways
to become a member a the S.F.R.P. :
- To have been formed by
our training organization, the I.F.E.R.T (Association of Training and
Studies in Therapeutic Relaxation).
- To already have an
important and recognized practice. And, after analysis of personal works
and Curriculum Vitae, to be presented by two sponsors who are answerable
for future members.