Advanced Autogenic Training

Auguste-Henri Forel (1 September 1848 – 27 July 1931)

Swiss

Neuro-anatomy

“In treatment he used hypnosis which he learned from HippolyteBernheim while working with him in Nancy, France. He taught hypnosis at the University of Zurich and he wrote a book on this subject (Der Hypnotismus, 1889) in which he supports Oskar Vogt’s (1870–1959) view that hypnosis is a “neurodynamicinhibition” caused by “cortical exhaustion.” (A. M. Ghadirian, M.D.)

Oskar Vogt (6 April 1870 – 30 July 1959)

German

Neurology - Psychiatry

Brain maps – Hypnosis – Hypnoanalysis - Sleep

“In their work as psychotherapists, with Oskar Vogt using the cathartic method and hypnosis in the years before World War I, the Vogts became strongly critical of Sigmund Freud’s psychoanalysis. Cécile Vogt coined the term disamnesia for the pathogenic inability to forget traumatic experiences, thus challenging Freud’s interpretation of repression as pathogenic. Oskar Vogt experimented with hypnosis and paved the way for the development of autogenic training. ” Helga Satzinger

Korbinian Brodmann (17 November 1868 – 22 August 1918)

German

Psychiatrist - Neurologist – Worked with Oskar Vogt

Brodmann areas of the brain – 52 areas grouped into 11 histological area

Vogt and Brodmann became interested in the many functions of sleep, especially in terms of its psychoplysiological, recuperative properties (Luthe, 1973). Hypnosis, they conjectured was a logical method of exploring the body’s self-healing properties. Hence, they began researching a variety of hypnotic, autohypnotic, and hypnoanalytic techniques and procedures. Brodmann was particularly responsible for developing a form of hypnosis, call fractioned hypnosis, which further explored the various psychophysiological changes during the hypnotic state. This line of research later enabled them to develop some of the earliest conceptualizations with regard to the various stages of sleep. (Shultz, 1950).

Johannes H Schultz (June 20, 1884 – September 19, 1970)

German

Psychiatrist – Psychotherapist

Developed Autogenic Training in the 1920’s

The development of autogenic training was based on the hypnosis research and self-experimentation. It was first publicly put forward in 1926 as "autogenic organ exercises", and received its current name in 1928. The program consists of a set of six mental exercises that target specific bodily reactions that are believed to underpin body-mind health. Wikipedia

Wolfgang Luthe, MD (1922-1985)

German - immigrated to Canada in 1945

Physician, scientist and psychotherapist

Worked and wrote with Johannes Schultz

During his residency met Brodmann and Schultz

He brought to the attention of the English-speaking world the immense amount of research and clinical work that had been done on Autogenic Therapy, a self-regulatory medical treatment well known to European clinicians, but practically unknown in North America.

He made frequent visits to Japan, where he was scientific director of the Oskar Vogt Institute and visiting professor at the Kyushu University School of Medicine and Hospital. The Oskar Vogt Institute emphasizes multidisciplinary research in psychophysiology and neurophysiology as well as in autogenic therapy.

Edmund Jacobson (April 22, 1888 – January 7, 1983)

American

Physician – Psychiatrist – Physiology

Created Progressive Muscle Relaxation and Biofeedback

Jacobson was able to prove the connection between excessive muscular tension and different disorders of body and psyche. He found out that tension and exertion was always accompanied by a shortening of the muscular fibers, that the reduction of the muscular tonus decreased the activity of the central nervous system, that relaxation was the contrary of states of excitement and well suited for a general remedy and prophylaxis against psychosomatic disorders.In 1929, after twenty years of research, Jacobson began to publish his results in the book "Progressive Relaxation". His major work, "You Must Relax", addressing the general public, came out in 1934. Wikipedia

Two Approaches

• Autogenic Training• Passive

The purpose of autogenic training is the achievement of autonomic self-regulation by removing environmental distraction, training imagery that accompanies autonomic self-regulation, and by providing a facilitative set of exercises that are easy to learn and remember.

• Progressive Relaxation Training• Active

Is a method of deep muscle relaxation based on the premise that muscle tension is the body's psychological response to anxiety-provoking thoughts and that muscle relaxation blocks anxiety. The technique involves tensing each muscle group and then releasing the tension while noticing the differences being felt.

PMR – 16 Dominant Muscle Groups Progression

1 Dominant Hand and Forearm

2 Dominant Bicep

3 Non Dominant Hand and Forearm

4 Non Dominant Bicep

5 Forehead

6 Upper Cheeks and Nose

7 Lower Cheeks and Jaw

8 Neck and Throat

9 Chest, Shoulders and Upper Back

10 Abdominal Area

11 Dominant Thigh

12 Dominant Calf

13 Dominant Foot

14 Non Dominant Thigh

15 Non Dominant Calf

16 Non Dominant Foot

Autogenic Training

• Basic 6 Formulas: • Muscular System

• Vascular System

• Heart

• Respiration

• Abdominal/Solar Plexus

• Forehead Cooling

AT – Schultz Formula

AT – My Formula

• My right arm is getting limp and heavy Repeat 5 times

• My right arm is getting heavier and heavier Repeat 5 times

• My right arm is completely heavy Repeat 5 times

• I feel utterly calm and relaxed Repeat 1 time

(Repeat for left arm, both arms, right leg, left leg, both legs, arms andlegs together)

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