Oral — collapsed front
Front body yields while contact reaches outward
This point marks the collapsed front of the oral strategy: the trunk is drawn as yielding or lacking support while the person seeks contact and nourishment beyond the body. The label combines the requested oral signature with a reaching orientation; it is a clinical phenomenology anchor, not an anatomical explanation of dependency or need.
Point 2 of 5 in Hakomi Character Strategies — Postural Holding Map
Cross-tradition overlaps
No overlapping points are registered for this point.
Sources
Ron Kurtz, Body-Centered Psychotherapy: The Hakomi Method (primary)
Hakomi Institute, Character Strategies and Character Theory (secondary)
Pat Ogden, Kekuni Minton, and Clare Pain, Trauma and the Body: A Sensorimotor Approach to Psychotherapy (scholarly_modern)