| This presentation will compare the Enneagram as pre-birth temperament
styles with the theory of post-birth character structures and armoring
from body psychotherapy. Wilhelm Reich, Alexander Lowen and others
have developed a general theory of psychological stress from early
childhood which is harbored in the body through body armoring and
character structures or ego defenses. The presenter sees the Enneagram
as a description of the innate temperament or nature of every newborn
which then interacts with the nurturing of the environment to create |