Solidarity / social support
Shoulder-girdle response locus
This shoulder marker represents solidarity and the capacity to seek or offer social support in a developmental body map. The point condenses a relational muscle-response pattern and is not a literal storage site for social experience.
Point 8 of 8 in Bodynamics — Marcher Character–Muscle Map
Cross-tradition overlaps
No overlapping points are registered for this point.
Sources
Lisbeth Marcher and Sonja Ørting, Body Encyclopedia: A Dictionary of Bodily Responses (scholarly_modern)
Bodynamic character-structure and ego-function teaching links developmental themes with muscle responses; exact muscle lists and developmental interpretations vary by training edition.
Bodynamic International, Bodynamic Analysis training materials (scholarly_modern)
Practitioner curriculum for the Bodynamic system’s developmental phases, character structures, ego functions, and psychomotor muscle testing; used here as lineage context, not as independent clinical validation.
Marianne Bentzen, The Neuroaffective Developmental Model (scholarly_modern)
Adjacent body-psychotherapy scholarship supporting developmental and relational framing; it does not establish the specific Bodynamic muscle correspondences rendered here.