1: Overview
Autogenic Therapy is a powerful and comprehensive therapeutic system encompassing both mind and body. AT teaches skills enabling clients to utilise their own capacity for self-healing and self-development.
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2: The Origins of AT
Autogenic Therapy, or AT, was developed in the early years of the twentieth century by the psychiatrist and neurologist Dr. Johannes Schultz.
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3: The Basic Autogenic Training Course: The Core of AT
The core of AT is a basic training course during which clients learn simple mental exercises allowing them to enter deep states of relaxation and experience relief from the negative effects of stress.

Many will find that the basic AT course meets their needs for a powerful self-help technique that they can use to manage stress, find a deeper emotional balance and inner well being, and enhance their general health.
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4: Advanced Techniques: Advanced AT
For a majority of clients, the basic Autogenic Training course will satisfy their requirement for a lifelong skill for stress management and personal development. For those requiring them, however, two further techniques are available: Autogenic Meditative Exercises and Autogenic Neutralisation. These should be seen as separate, optional paths for those with special requirements; one is not more 'advanced' than the other. Both are available only to those who have completed the basic AT course.
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5: The AT Process
As clients practise AT over a period of weeks and months, and make it a part of their lifestyle, they report a number of changes in the direction of greater health, balance, emotional stability and freedom from anxiety and stress. These reports are confirmed by a number of objective studies into the physiological changes accompanying regular use of AT. Central to the changes brought about by AT is passive concentration, the detached but alert state of mind in which AT exercises are carried out.
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6: Clinical Applications of AT
AT has wide potential for the treatment of various medical conditions. The treatment of a number of these conditions with AT have been closely documented by Luthe.
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7: Non-Clinical Applications of AT
In addition to its capacity to enhance the healing and recuperative powers of the body, AT appears to rebalance our mental faculties and bring closer harmony between the analytical left hemisphere of the brain and the more emotional, inspirational and creative right hemisphere. Read more >>



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