Body Psychotherapy (BP) is a relatively new form of psychotherapy. BP is sometimes combined with the concept of mind; therefore, mind-body psychotherapy is a form of BP. I would also group Mindfulness Psychotherapy in the same area as BP. Therefore, I reviewed the literature from these three fields in an attempt to gain a more comprehensive view of BP. Although BP is a relatively new form of psychotherapy, some of its roots can be traced back to the 1800s. Around the years 1893 to 1895, when Freud and Breuer were publishing their works on patients with hysteria, Pierre Janet and Charles Richer combined efforts for two years in a psychology laboratory to study the breathing patterns of neurotic patients (Janet, 1895). Before then there was no written documentation illustrating the relationship between the person's body and psychotherapy. Forty years after Janet's work with breathing patterns, Wilhem Reich published his work on hypoventilation and hyperventilation that current body psychotherapists are trained to observe and analyze emotional contact with themselves and others (Boadella, 1997 ). A closer look at Janet's work illustrates the relationships he established between impaired circulation, congested tissues, cardiovascular functioning, changes in blood pressure, and emotional imbalance. Janet's connections laid the foundation for Reich's work with states of somatic anxiety which he found expressed through the disruption of pulsations in fluids in tissues. Despite these early discoveries, psychosomatic therapies are less respected in the hard sciences; however, current authors are once again making the connection between physical illness and repressed emotions (Leader & Corfield, 2007). I hope... half of the article... International Journal of Psychotherapy, 2(1), 45-56.Janet, P. (1895). Note sur quellque spasms desMus du tronc chez les hysteriques, La FranceMedical et Paris medical, XLII, 292-353.Leader, D., & Corfield, D. (2007). Why do people get sick?. London: Hamish Hamilton.Moodley, R., & West, W. (eds.), (2005). Integration of traditional healing practices into counseling and psychotherapy. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage.Moodley, R., Sutherland, P., & Oulanova, O. (2008). Traditional healing, the body and mind in psychotherapy. Counseling Psychology Quarterly, 21(2), 153-165. Muller, A., & Steyn, M. (2002). Culture and feasibility of a partnership between westernized doctors and traditional healers. In L. Gilbert, T. Selikow, & L. Walker (Eds.), Society, health, and illness: A reader for health professionals. Johannesburg: Ravan Press.