Psychosomatic Approaches in PsychotherapyKontakt

Abstract

Based on new research approaches the term resonance will be illuminated in regard to its relevance for psychosomatics. The following reflections will take into account body-phenomenology from medicine, neural synchronisation as well as mirror neurons from neurophysiology, essential amplification of oscillations through resonance from physics and «answers» and the «silent» world relationship by H. Rosa from sociol­ogy. A theory of world relationships through resonance is indicated and illustrated by examples. It will be shown that the resonance theory can illuminate psychosomatic core terms. Thus, for example, it can explain the unity of body and soul (e. g. mind or I), body memento and memory, which illustrate the dynamics of the environment as resonance space of the senses as well as the idle state (pause, non-action). The integration of resonance processes for brain function is of particular importance. Instead of a brain theory, which mystifies and projects the mind into nerve networks, the mind is present throughout the body and in every cell. Not the dualism of body and mind by Descartes but the body-mind-spirit-unity (monad) in respect to Leibniz is an appropriate approach: Brain and body are not in a causal but a partner-like relationship. Therefore, the theory of a centralised cerebral control function should be replaced by a theory of brain resonance (Comparison, e. g. Buzsáki [2006] as well as Hahn et al. [2014]).