[Neo-Reichian therapy.]

The author describes the basic concepts of this corporal approach and distinguishes it from the bioenergetic method. Thus he presents some of Reich's intuitions such as the energizing grid (the body seen as an energy transformer), the notion of the somatic unconscious (the limitation of respiration and motility is a part of the repressive process), polarity respiration, and the work on the seven segments of the muscular armour (ocular, oral, throat, back and upper chest, chest and diaphragm, abdomen, pelvis). Next, the author explains the differences between neo-reichian and bioenergetic therapies. These are found to reside in the conception of therapy (one is analytic and the other more centered on process) and in a philosophical distinction (pleasure in living versus the diagnostic evaluation of the problem).