Femail sexuality from the Perspective of Body-Oriented and Constructivist Theory
Sladjana Živković - MA in psychology, constructivist psychotherapist
Slađana Đorđević - MA in psychology- clinical department,
body psychotherapist
What are the basic questions a woman should ask herself in order to understand her sexuality? Constructivist psychotherapy is based on the assumption that the meaning a person ascribes to sexuality is in a constant process of change which includes both personal conscious and unconscious, verbal and non-verbal meanings and bodily messages, and broader social meanings which are ascribed to sexuality in a given historical moment. The meanings we ascribe to sexuality direct our behaviour as one of a sexual being. Body-oriented psychotherapy points out that these internalised meanings form an emotional and body scheme in women and men. Understanding your body, femininity, sexuality and your relation with a partner depend on these schemes. To understand these meanings, that is, the schemes which define sexual behavior, we propose an insight into your sexuality through four holons- gender, eroticism, reproductivity and the need for interpersonal bonding.
Dance and movement therapy as a successful intervention reducing symptoms of depression and anxiety
Vedrana Kurjan Manestar,
educator, Gestalt Psychotherapist, dance and movement therapy
According to the American Dance Therapy Association (ADTA) dance and movement psychotherapy is a therapeutic use of movement and dance in the creative process with the aim to further the emotional, cognitive, social and physical integration of the individual. As body-oriented branches of psychotherapy, dance/movement psychotherapy advocates the necessity of including the body in psychotherapy.
Self-inflicted violence – the Point of View of Feminist Psychotherapy
Slađana Živković - MA in psychology, constructivist psychotherapist
Self-inflicted violence intentionally caused by cuts, burns, head injuries, fracturing bones, punches, stabbings, hair pulling, taking toxic content, intentionally vomiting etc. is a part of the history of difficult and multiple violence called complex trauma (Brown, 2007) or complex post-traumatic stress disorder (Herman, 1997).
The emotional roundabout in the stomach - bulimia
personal story
Bulimia… what is this exactly? For someone it‘s just an ordinary word with no particular meaning. Many people don’t understand what this word actually means. Yeah, it’s simple, bulimia-it’s vomiting. Apparently it’s very simple. This “very simple word” means everything to me. It moves and restrains me, it controls my head, arms, legs, my whole body. I easily surrender to bulimia and more easily come back to it.. and it continues indefinitely. So, bulimia-it’s me
Problems with reaching orgasm
Slađana Đorđević
MA in psychology, body psychotherapist
As a bodily and psychological experience, orgasm is a clear indication to what extent the person is able to indulge in his/her body or in another person. In this process of surrendering to “the flow of biological energy '', emotional blockades, which originate in prejudice, family upbringing, emotional inhibition, etc. emerge.
