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Since the Covid-19 pandemic there has been an acceleration of remote body psychotherapy. This is happening within the predominant neoliberal political and economic ideology in which we live. Whilst online body psychotherapy is being celebrated for giving increased accessibility nationally and internationally, the article considers whether depth body psychotherapy is reduced and its substance being lost to fit the neoliberal agenda. The article calls for a discussion on neoliberalism and its impact on not only body psychotherapy and what is lost in the online format of it, but on human beings more generally. It concludes by calling for the return of values and principles to guide body psychotherapy and a shift from humans being seen as possessive individuals to expressive individuals.
Gill Westland (Wed,) studied this question.