Handbook Bioenergetic Analysis

Editor: Vita Heinrich-Clauer | Publisher: Psychosozial-Verlag

ISBN-13: 978-3-8379-2102-1

Pages: 539 | Format: 148 x 210 mm

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This book is a selection of articles from Bioenergetic Analysis, that range from classical studies written in the Eighties (following Lowen) up to current theoretical contributions and case studies. The more recent articles connect the concepts of relational psychoanalysis with the findings from emotion and infant research, attachment theory as well as neurobiology. The integration of implicit knowing and the importance for including the body in the therapy process is evident in these articles.

The articles demonstrate the broad spectrum of the prevailing concepts and profound therapeutic modalities of Bioenergetic Analysis. Case studies illustrate the concepts and provide practical relevance.

Central themes of the book are: the Self in relation with others, sexuality and love, trauma, psychosomatics as well as the conceptual discussion of the therapeutic process. Studies on effectiveness of Bioenergetic Analysis and body psychotherapy in general complete the spectrum.

Contents

Introduction to the English Version

1. English Editor’s Note | Acknowledgment (German version) | Foreword | Introduction
2. Foundations of Bioenergetic Analysis | Philip M. Helfaer
3. What Is Bioenergetic Analysis? | Alexander Lowen

Part I · The Self in Relation to Others

1. Introduction | Jörg Clauer
2. The Self: Its Functions, its Attachments and its Interactions | Guy Tonella 
3. Cephalic Shock as a Somatic Link to the False Self Personality | Robert A. Lewis 
4. Shame in the Light of Sex and Self-Respect | Philip M. Helfaer
5. Affective Relationships and Bodily Processes | Gabriella Buti Zaccagnini
6. Therapists as a Resonance Body. Which Strings come into Action? | Vita Heinrich-Clauer
7. Body, Relationship and Transference: The Three Dimensions of Bioenergetic Analysis | Violaine de Clerck

Part II · Working with Sexual Issues – Sexuality and Love

1. Introduction | Elaine Tuccillo 
2. Working with Sexual Transference | Virginia Wink Hilton 
3. Women’s Abdomens: Route to Their Sexuality | Michèle Dupuy-Godin
4. Healing the Sexual Split between Tenderness and Aggression | Bennett Shapiro
5. Treatment History of a Man with Impotence | Elizabeth C. Murray

Part III · Working with Trauma Issues – Restoring the Soul-Body-Mind Unity

1. Introduction | Divna Peric-Todorovic 
2. Living on Shifting Sands: Grounding and Borderline Personality Organization | Scott Baum
3. Human Trauma | Robert Lewis 
4. Case Study of a Survivor of Political Torture | Maryanna Eckberg
5. “… allowing the body to continue to heal itself” | David Berceli in a talk with Vita Heinrich-Clauer and Arist von Schlippe 
6. Perseus’ Mirror or The Therapeutic Resources of Flow and Peak | Unfreezing The Body in Shock and Panic | Josette van Luytelaar

Part IV · Treatment of Psychosomatic Disorders in Bioenergetic Analysis

1. Introduction | Ulrich Sollmann
2. Embodied Comprehension: Treatment of Psychosomatic Disorders in Bioenergetic Analysis | Jörg Clauer
3. A Valiant Woman | Carol Bandini 
4. Symptoms and Diseases of the Respiratory and Gastrointestinal Tracts | John M. Bellis

Part V · Conceptual Integration of Research Results

1. Introduction | Vita Heinrich-Clauer 
2. Psychobiology of Affects | Implications for a Somatic Psychotherapy | Helen Resneck-Sannes
3. Catharsis and Self-Regulation Revisited | Scientific and Clinical Considerations | Angela Klopstech 
4. The Relative Contribution of Cognition, Affect and Motor Behavior in Psychotherapeutic Processes | Empathy and Interaction as Healing Factors | Margit Koemeda-Lutz

Part VI · Scientific Evaluation of Bioenergetic Analysis

1. Introduction | Christa D. Ventling 
2. Efficacy of Bioenergetic Psychotherapy with Patients of known ICD–10 Diagnosis | A Retrospective Evaluation | Christa D. Ventling, Herbert Bertschi and Urs Gerhard
3. Evaluation of the Effectiveness of Body Psychotherapy in Outpatient Settings (EEBP) 513 | A Multi-Centre Study in Germany and Switzerland | Margit Koemeda-Lutz, Martin Kaschke, Dirk Revenstorf, Thomas Scherrmann, Halko Weiss und Ulrich Soeder

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