[6] Branches also were developed by Alexander Lowen, and John Pierrakos, both patients and students of Reich, like Reichian body-oriented psychotherapy[7][8][9] and Gerda Boyesen.
[12] Reich was expelled from the psychoanalytic mainstream and his work found a home in the 'growth movement' of the 1960s and 1970s and in the countercultural project of 'liberating the body'.
[13] Body psychotherapy's marginal position may be connected with the tendency for charismatic leaders to emerge within it, from Reich onwards.
[19] Subsequently, the Chiron Centre for Body Psychotherapy added influences from Gestalt therapy to their approach.
[21] Object relations theory has arguably opened the way more recently for a fuller consideration of the body-mind connection in psychotherapy.
[41] The review of outcome research across different types of body-oriented psychotherapy concludes that the best evidence supports efficacy for treating somatoform/psychosomatic disorders and schizophrenia,[42][full citation needed] while there is also support for 'generally good effects on subjectively experienced depressive and anxiety symptoms, somatisation and social insecurity.
[45][46][47][48] Recovering a sense of physical boundaries through sensorimotor psychotherapy is an important part of re-establishing trust in the traumatised.
[55] The USABP was formed in June 1996[56] to provide professional representation for body psychotherapy practitioners in the United States.
[60] Its use in RBOP (Reichian body-oriented psychotherapy) has been criticized as "ignoring the already well established universal consensus about energy existing in Science.