After the Crash:

Abstract

This article chronicles the journey of a therapist and a lesbian feminist activist over the last thirty years. Her path has taken her through many different therapy experiences: Freudian psychoanalysis, Radical Psychiatry, encounter groups, women's groups, Gestalt Therapy, Feminist Therapy, Reichian Therapy, Bioenergetics, breath and movement therapy, and Integratice Body Psychotherapy (IBP). Synthesizing all she has experienced and studied, the author had developed Feminist Body Psychotherapy (FBT). Today her work integrates FBP with IBP, an approach similar to hers, which she experienced, studied and now teaches in Los Angeles. This article stresses the importance of integrating the body into psychotherapy to heal the mind-body split.