Abstract
Psychophysiological psychotherapy is a unique diagnostic and intervention procedure that seeks to identify and alter the underlying mechanisms that enable the somatizing patient to transduce psychosocial conflicts into somatic presentations. Somatizers are resistant to conventional psychological assessment and intervention procedures and actively seek surgical and chemical solutions to their somatic presentations. Student therapists have to acquire, through live supervision and assigned reading, the knowledge, skills and personal comfort levels that enable them to credibly and effectively lead the somatizer out of the somatic closet and into the psychotherapist's office. The student therapist can learn to make this transition by using the Trojan Horse Procedure and the High Risk Model, which are procedures to collapse the light years of psychological distance between the primary care physician's office and the psychotherapist's office.
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