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Body-psychotherapy is a fascinating field, which began with the work of Wilhelm Reich, a student of Freud, during the first decades of the twentieth century. Body-psychotherapy is a generic name describing a variety of psychotherapeutic methods where somatic processes are a focal point for the clinician's curiosity. The field includes various theoretical and clinical orientations, as well as varied therapeutic tools. This paper reviews the historical and theoretical background of body-psychotherapy and offers some clinical vignettes to demonstrate how the body could be integrated within psychotherapy. The paper further presents contemporary developments in relational body-psychotherapy, where the body ceases being seen an object and becomes a pulsating dialogue between bodies-in-relation, revealing themselves to one another.