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About the Methods of Autogenic Therapy

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One of the most important assumptions of autogenic therapy is that nature has provided man with homeostatic mechanisms not only to regulate fluid and electrolyte balance, blood pressure, heart rate, wound healing and so on, but also to readjust more complicated functional disorders that are of a mental nature. In autogenic therapy the term homeostatic self-regulatory brain mechanisms is often used.38,39,51 This concept assumes that when a person is exposed to excessive disturbing stimulation (either emotional or physical trauma), the brain has the potential to utilize natural biological processes to reduce the disturbing consequences of the stimulation (i.e.. neutralization). At the mental level some of this self-regulatory neutralization or recuperation occurs naturally during sleep and dreams.40,48

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Luthe, W. (1979). About the Methods of Autogenic Therapy. In: Peper, E., Ancoli, S., Quinn, M. (eds) Mind/Body Integration. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4613-2898-8_12

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