BIOCENTRIC THERAPY IN MENTAL HEALTH

Biocentric therapy a cognitive-experiential approach to problems of development, personal growth,and self-actualization.It developed around a perspective that sees human beings,first and foremost,as living organisms whose primary task is to exercise their capacities  effectively to satisfy their needs and thereby preserve and enhance  their well-being. The way in whichan individual deals with this task  is  seen as the key to his psychology.

If a person is to act effectively,if he is to maintain and further his life,     he requires a knowledge of his environment, of his own state of  external and internal reality, of the world, and of self. Thus, Biocentric therapy sees a person’s mental functioning as being psychologically maladaptive to the extent that the functioning of his consciousness is unimpeded by blocks; his psychology is biologically maladaptive to the extent that blocks obstruct thefunctioning of consciousness.

Thus, a central goal of therapy is to remove obstructions to…