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   Therapeutic action alters the psychophysical state in specific form. Psychoanalysis, for example, acts directly on the patient's symbolic world by means of the re-meaning of its contents and indirectly on the real world and on the general psychophysical state. The conductive techniques train the patient in the appropriate valuation of stimuli and in the corresponding behaviors. This way, they achieve a change in the psychophysical state by means of the control of affections that favors the strengthening of self-assurance.

    In the case of Orgonomy, the action is exercised on the character, defined as chronic alteration of the ego. Given the defensive function of the character and its rigidity, it has also been called "armor". A functional identity exists between the psychic features of the character and the posture and corporal expression. The character armor is identically functional to the muscular armor. They are two expressions of one and the same organization: the sum of defenses of the ego that have become chronic in the adult and that act in automatic form. The character conceived this way corresponds with a specific psychophysical state: a certain muscular tone, sanguine pressure, and certain sensibility toward the sensorial stimuli, etc. that characterize the individual. The therapeutic work acts on the defenses of the ego, by means of the analysis of character features or directly on muscles and breathing. When the defenses begin to fall off, a feature of character armor disappears or attenuates and also its counterpart in muscular armor. The person has changed, the character has changed and, in consequence, the general state of the organism. The senses have suffered a functional alteration: perception of the world has been modified.

    If we accept that a certain psychophysical state corresponds to a certain functioning of our sensing organs and our nervous system, then, as a result, they generate a specific perception of the world. If we also accept that a certain psychophysical organization corresponds to a certain character, then we should accept that the modification of the character implies a change in the perception of the world. This change takes place in form of qualitative jumps that correspond to insights achieved during the therapeutic action or as a consequence of it. The changes may be bigger or smaller, but they are accumulative.

    After each transformation the character is reorganized and it restructures its defenses. This causes a transformation of psychophysical state in general, when the character armor is being restructured as much as the muscular armor.

    If the patient's participation awareness is added to this therapeutic process, this is, his understanding and keen feeling of the details that surround the successive restructuring of the character, then we can say that his perception is in motion.

    Considered this way, the therapeutic process consists on successive perception shifts, where each new organization of the defenses of the ego corresponds to a new corporal structure and a new perception of the world.

    The patient's awareness of his perception shift secures the permanency in the new character structure and impedes the return to the previous state of armoring. Which are the limit states in this process? The starting point is the state of a person that identifies his character (defined as chronical alteration of the ego) with his being and his perception of the world with reality. Therapeutic action is impossible in this state, consequently it is necessary a first perception shift that opens a fissure in its narcissism and dogmatism. Our center develops the skill for this first shift in groups of work that we call Workshops of Didactic Interaction, where Functional Thought is studied in an interactive, practical way. The goal of these groups is that each student becomes able to make conscious his own character features, becomes able to identify them and to observe which are the stimuli that unchain them and which is their defensive function. Although this work has in itself a therapeutic value it is only considered a preparation for the individual therapy. The therapy properly consists on the removal of each one of character features, this is, the elimination of all rigidities and automatism, in sum, it consists on the dismantlement of characterial and muscular armoring. This takes to the patient to the initial state of his life: the birth, in that the mold was printed that, along his personal history would give origin to the character. Here we face with the other limit state in the process: where there are no longer rigidities and where perception, in consequence, doesn't suffer distortions: the person makes contact with herself, with her own origin, with the whole situation that she should live to enter in a certain place of the world and from there to perceive. She takes contact with her birth. This was the moment when perception was locked in the specific functions of the organism, which is determined by the circumstances of its own birth. This, the last obstacle, perception has carried out a last transformation, a last shift: the Ego dissolved, perception is liberated and finally, already free of dissociation, it perceives itself.

   It can be said that this last state exceeds the objectives of a psychological treatment: we don't deny it. We only sustain that this state is achieved by means of the consequent application of actions that belong to a therapeutic technique. In intermediate stations a bigger balance and psychophysical well being are achieved, and the living knowledge of the process of transformation of character.

CENTER OF ORGONOMIC STUDIES FOR THE PERCEPTION SHIFT
Villa de las Rosas, Department San Javier,(5885) Córdoba, Argentina
Coordinators:
Alberto Díaz Goldfarb, Psychologist, Orgonomist
Liliana Elsa Luque, Psychologist, Orgonomist
e-mail " orur@arnet.com.ar"

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