The Mindfulness Therapy: a mediation articulating the psychic and corporal spaces

Psycho-corporal therapies have an essential place in addictology, where patients are in psychosomatic attempts to overcome their suffering. Deficiencies in mothering or early traumatic stimuli induce a failure in the excitatory abilities. The experience of contained and reassuring tonic-sensory sensations models the patient’s representations of him/herself and the world. It will then be possible for him/her to gradually feel their affects without fear of collapse. Yoga and meditation are the practices that inspire the psycho-corporal approach presented in this article. Their perspectives are to soften the psyche-soma cleavage and to contain the reactivity linked to mental activity. This approach is presented through the lens of a practice at the Marmottan Medical Center.