Autogenic Training was invented by Johannes Heinrich Schultz as a method of “Self-relaxing concentration”, as he says in the subtitle of his 1932 book. His disciple Wolfgang Luthe described in 1961 the “neutralization effect” as one of the principal therapeutic mechanisms of Autogenic Training, proposed the new name of Autogenic Therapy and created ICAT, the International Committee for Autogenic Therapy, that promotes and oversees the teaching, research and applications of Autogenics. P