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My article in Kairos, the Slovenian journal of psychotherapy, therefore deals with body-oriented psychodynamic psychotherapy, which takes the view that touch is a fundamental need for everyone and, as such, very important in the personal growth of the client. It has a direct impact on memory and is therefore an effective way of establishing a mind-body connection and releasing the traumatic material we carry in our bodies. The full article was published in Kairos (Volume 7, Issue 1-2, 2013) and is available <a href=\"https:\/\/kairos.skzp.org\/index.php\/revija\/issue\/archive\">here<\/a> (Slovenian only).    <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A series of researches have been carried out, which prove that in the framework of the psychotherapeutic process, work on the physical (and physiological) level is increasingly important.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1029,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1351","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Body and Touch in Psychodynamic Psychotherapy - Metka Zalaznik Furlani<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/metkazalaznikfurlani.si\/en\/body-and-touch-in-psychodynamic-psychotherapy\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Body and Touch in Psychodynamic Psychotherapy - 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