Abstract
During the Second World War, Oslo became a crucial centre for those interested in how the body could be used in a psychotherapeutic setting. There, for a short while, psychiatrists, psychoanalysts, psychologists, physiotherapists, dance therapists, and vegetotherapists discussed passionately with each other. The catalyst of these discussions was Wilhelm Reich, recognized as the founder of body psychotherapists. These discussions are little known because the majority of the literature is in Norwegian. How Scandinavian bodywork influenced psychotherapy is described in this paper. How Reich intervened in these developments, and how these discussions are continued today, will be presented in a follow-up article.
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