Body psychotherapy
The body psychotherapy is one of the oldest directions of modern psychotherapy. At the end of the 19th Century Pierre Janet, a psychology professor in Paris already explored intense mind-body connections. Together with Wilhelm Reich, a student of Sigmund Freud, they are considered as the two pioneers in the development of body psychotherapy.
Biosynthesis was developed by Dr. h. c. David Boadella in the 1970s and is based in the theories of depth psychology, modern trauma research, resource-oriented humanistic psychology and transpersonal psychology.
Biosynthesis means "integration of life." It deals with supporting the connection between feelings, thoughts and actions so that the contact to ourselves is relaxed and interpersonal relationships get more facilitated.
The three main principles in the Biosynthesis are to ground oneself, to center oneself and to face problems of reality. In the Biosynthesis therapy we work with the body, the psyche and the spiritual essence.
Methods:
- Councelling, talk therapy in order to support, to process and to face and integate
- Body awareness methods, sensory motor perception
- Promotion of natural breathing in contact with our needs
- Activation of the emotional perception of feelings in the body
- Exercises for movement flexibility and an optimal relaxed alignement
- Revitalization and relaxation methods through gentle and deep touch on the body (clothes on or partly taken off)
- Working with the subtle energy in and around the body (according to Bob Moore)
- Dream and symbol interpretation
- Stress reduction and work with speed limits and borders
- Cognitive restructuring
- Geneagramm and work with the own family history, patterns and taboos
- Analysing and work with gender prejudices
- Work with couples