Body-centered approach to psychotherapy that treats mental health by integrating physical sensations, movement, and breath, rather than focusing solely on thoughts and narratives.

• "Healing requires changing our relationship to our memories. Transformation comes from investing the traumatic event with a new meaning. It necessitates replacing unsuccessful episodes with successful ones and imprinting new neuromuscular patterns." Knaster, M., 1996, Discovering the body’s wisdom

It was developed by John Bowlby, who argued that infants are biologically wired to form close emotional bonds with primary caregivers for survival and security.

• "Early experiences never disappear; they become the blueprint for later love." — John Bowlby

Unconscious, unresolved conflicts, and emotions from the past influence present behavior and mental health.

• “Unexpressed emotion will never die. They are buried alive and will come forth later in uglier ways” — Sigmund Freud