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Psychological tests can be separated into different fields of use: cognitive tests, dementia tests, and personality tests. The Bodymap is a personalty test. The Bodymap test primarily gives information about the personality and ego functions of a client, his weak and strong sides. It also gives information about which kind of psychotherapy will be most suitable for the client.

Bodynamic Analysis uses the Bodymap similarly to how the Rorschach test is used in clinical psychology and psychiatry. A pilot-study indicates that both tests can be used to provide compatible information. The two tests appear to supplement each other, since a Bodymap gives more precise and detailed information than the Rorschach about the development of the client, and from which age levels his/her problems arise. The Rorschach on the other hand gives a more detailed description of the processes of consciousness and the associative connections of the client.

Bodymap of a Bodynamic Client (fictional here)

Interpretation of the Bodymap is the starting point
for preparation of a Bodynamic Analytic therapy process
(test reading, prognosis and treatment plan).

The work with test reading, prognosis, and treatment plan builds on:
1) an interview with the client
2) a Bodymap, and
3) the therapist's impression of the client and the contact they have during the interview and during the body mapping.

Interpretation of the Bodymap consists of a systematic evaluation of the personality and ego functions of the client, a prognosis based on these, and an articulated treatment plan. The interpretation is based on a systematic analysis of the client's patterns of muscle responses based on Bodynamic Analytic theory, and supplemented by the therapist's accumulated experience concerning the test, the client, and contact with the client.


For more information, see the article titled "THE BODYMAP - A Precise Diagnostic tool for Psychotherapy" by Peter Bernhardt, MFT, and Joel Isaacs, Ph.D., copyright Bodynamic Institute, USA 1997.

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This Bodymapping web page last updated - March 31, 1999

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