Orgonomy is a mind-body approach to health. Allopathic medicine (in some quarters) is shifting toward embracing this paradigm, as physicians understand that diseases emanate from a complex interactional mind-body field rather than being limited to a silo of discreet symptoms.

In Orgonomy, we outline a map of the body as it correlates to character structure, and each area – eyes, mouth, cervical, chest, diaphragm, belly and pelvis – has its own functional capacity to open or close its gates to the movement of energy (including sensation, perception, capacity for movement and release) throughout the body.

We designate this map as the seven segments of armoring and describe how each segment acts to either fulfill or limit our capacity to experience aliveness and pleasure; depending on how armored (tense, unyielding, slack) each segment is (see blog Reich’s Understanding of Character and Body Expression, August 30, 2017).