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mmer 2010 summer 2010 summer 2010 summer 20 colophon The EABP Newsletter is published once a year by the European Association for Body Psychotherapy. All rights reserved. No portion may be reproduced in any form without written permission from the EABP. To ensure the confidentiality of any individuals who may be mentioned in case material, names and identifying information have been changed. The views expressed in this publication are those of the authors and may not reflect the official policies or philosophies of the European Association for Body Psychotherapy, its Board of Directors, or its members. Publications Committee Jill van der Aa Jacqueline A. Carleton Courtenay Young Editing: Jill van der Aa, Christine Hayes Design: Chiel Veffer, Joop Valstar Layout: Ronald Jeans Printer: KMK Promotions, Poland Contributors: Christina Bader-Johansson, Angela Belz-Knöferl, Victoria Berezkina-Orlova, Fabio Carbonari, Jacqueline A. Carleton, Enver Cesko, Siegmar Gerkin, Serge Ginger, Elfriede Kastenberger, Ljiliana Klisic Djordjevic, Elisabeth de Lange, Jerome Liss, Karin KorpeAntilla, Despina Markaki, Elizabeth Marshall, Bjørn Ødegaard, Thomas Riepenhausen, Kathrin Stauffer, Manfred Thielen, Jürg Thomet, David Trotzig, Joop Valstar, Claude Vaux, Jill van der Aa Contact Letters to the editors are invited. Please address all information or enquiries to: EABP Secretariat Leidsestraat 106-108/2 1017 PG Amsterdam The Netherlands Tel: +31-(0)20-3302703 Fax: +31-(0)20-6257312 [email protected] Advertising Rates Full Page: 20 x 27cm - € 310 Half Page: Horizontal 20 X 13 cm - € 165 1/4 Page: 10 x 13 - € 85 Business Card: 9 x 5.5 cm - € 45 Art/Specifications: We will accept camera-ready art only (.jpg). EABP Secretariat: Jill van der Aa, Christine Hayes, Latara Schellen Webmaster: Rien Groenendijk Also published on www.eabp.org

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CONTENTS Editorial EABP Congress Vienna EABP Board Membership EABP Committees FORUM FORUM Report FORUM Symposium Profile on Core Evolution & CoreSoma Professional Development COUNCIL COUNCIL Report National Association Reports EAP Article by Serge Ginger Report by Thomas Riepenhausen Obituaries Andreas Wehowsky Alexander Lowen Publications Bibliography Website Book reviews Journals From across the pond Interview Malcolm Brown Articles Bjørn Ødegaard Siegmar Gerken

EABP MEETINGS 2010

EABP MEETINGS 2011

August 20-22 Board Meeting

January 28-30 COUNCIL Meeting Rome, Italy

September 3-6 EC meeting Nürnberg October 28 FORUM Meeting Vienna, Austria

April 29-1 May FORUM Meeting Mallorca, Spain

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mmer 2010 summer 2010 summer 2010 summer 20 Editorial Dear members, colleagues and friends, In both FORUM and COUNCIL Meetings, representatives report on the situation of psychotherapy in their own countries and the difficulties they have in practicing their profession. In preparing this Newsletter we see that it has been a year of intense activity and many positive steps have been taken to improve the situation right through the organisation. Above all there is an increasing sense of unity and mutual support. At the COUNCIL Meeting in January, hosted by the CABP in the UK, all ten National Associations were represented and they write of a very satisfying meeting. Membership is still increasing slowly, symposia and congresses are being organised and there are many body psychotherapy publications appearing from EABP members – some financially supported by the Associations. The 2011 COUNCIL meeting will be held in Rome, Italy, hosted by the AIPC. From the FORUM we hear that two more Training Institutes have been accredited, and several FORUM Training Institutes have been re-accredited. Others will have been through the process by the Spring Meeting of 2011. There was also time during the last couple of meetings to brainstorm about new directions for the FORUM. The 12th EABP Body Psychotherapy Congress – Body Mind Relationship – takes place in Vienna, Austria, from October 29 to November 1, 2010. The call for papers closes 31 May. Look on the website to register and to find a hotel. We look forward to meeting you there. You, the members, may indeed wonder, “What is the EABP doing to improve the situation for psychotherapists?” In answer to this we bring you a very enlightening article from Serge Ginger, the Registrar for the EAP, on the history and strategy of the EAP to obtain recognition for the profession throughout Europe. Thomas Riepenhausen, the EABP representative to the EAP, has filled this out from the perspective of the EABP. We bring you several obituaries. Andreas Wehowsky, who died in January this year, is remembered by Bernhard Maul and Thomas Riepenhausen. Bjørn Ødegaard remembers the sweetness of Eva Reich and baby massage in his article Babies, Fathers and Massage: “…the way I see it, is that sweetness and trauma alike leave traces… Siegmar Gerkin writes about the Trauma – his recent experience running an Earthquake Trauma Relief workshop in Chile at the time of the earthquake. And Elizabeth Marshall brings us an in-depth interview with Malcolm Brown. The Bibliography with more than 5000 references to books, articles, theses, journals, films, etc. on body psychotherapy is finally up and running on the website. Now it really belongs to you – make use of it! The Professional Development section has been expanded with future events and we remind you that the website is also regularly updated with future events. Send us information about your events. In the revised website we are planning to provide a section where you will be able to upload your own events and workshops. What more could we do to benefit you, the members? The Membership Secretary has prepared a Membership Survey, which will be sent out to you shortly by email. We trust that you will take some moments to fill it in and email it back to us. This is one way we can get more information about what you would like or expect from our organisation. And lastly, we are very sorry to loose our chief editor Joop Valstar, who has been a guiding light and taskmaster over the years. One of his many contributions to the EABP has been the high standard of EABP documents (including the Newsletter). Thank you for your input and inspiration Joop! The Publications Committee

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12th EABP Congress of Body Psychotherapy Body Mind Relationship Vienna, Austria October 29-November 1, 2010 [email protected] www.eabp.at

is planned to offer opportunities for international contacts, as well as relaxed and pleasant encounters with colleagues and interested participants. We cordially invite you to take part in the Congress. The Congress Committee Dr. Bosse Ahrenfelt, Christina BaderJohansson MSc., Dr. Michael Heller, Dr. Regina Hochmair, Dr. Elfriede Kastenberger, Bjørn Ødegard, Dr. Eva Wagner-Margetich Liebe Kolleginnen und Kollegen, sehr geehrte Damen und Herren, Wir freuen uns, Ihnen das Programm für unseren Kongress vorzustellen. Damit wollen wir allen KörperpsychotherapeutInnen neue Impulse und Input geben. Wir sind davon überzeugt, daß die Inhalte auch für PsychotherapeutInnen aller Richtungen, PsychologInnen und Ärztinnen wichtig und interessant sind.

Dear colleagues, ladies and gentlemen, We are pleased to present the programme for our congress, with which we hope to give all body psychotherapists new impulses and input. We are sure that it also includes interesting and important themes for psychotherapists of all persuasions, physicians and psychologists. The presenters are from all over the world; the subject matter covers the following areas: • The current status of body psychotherapy – where is body psychotherapy today? • Recent research findings in body psychotherapy and related specialities – what could be their influence on our work? • Body psychotherapy and medicine – mutual influences and the various aspects of cooperation. Experiencing the richness and variety of body psychotherapeutic work will be an important part of the congress, as will be the possibilities for exchange and communication. The general programme

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Die Vortragenden kommen aus aller Welt, die Themen umfassen folgende Gebiete: • Aktueller Stand der Körperpsychotherapie - wo steht die Körperpsychotherapie heute • Neuere Forschungsergebnisse aus der Körperpsychotherapie und aus angrenzenden Gebieten – welchen Einfluss können sie auf unsere Arbeit haben • Körperpsychotherapie und Medizin – gegenseitige Beeinflussung und die vielen Facetten der Zusammenarbeit. Ein wichtiger Teil des Kongresses soll auch sein, den Reichtum und die Vielfalt der körperpsychotherapeutischen Arbeit zu erfahren und auszutauschen. Mit dem geplanten Rahmenprogramm bieten wir außerdem Gelegenheit für internationale Kontakte und entspannte und genussvolle Treffen mit KollegInnen und Interessierten. Wir laden Sie herzlich ein, dabei zu sein! Das Kongress-Komitee Dr. Bosse Ahrenfelt, Christina BaderJohansson, MSc., Dr. Michael Heller; Dr. Regina Hochmair, Dr. Elfriede Kastenberger, Bjørn Ødegard, Dr. Eva Wagner-Margetich

Fortbildungspunkte werden bei den Deutschen Ärzte-/ Psychotherapeutenkammern, beim ÖBVP und bei der Österreichischen Ärztekammer beantragt. Carissime colleghe e carissimi colleghi, gentili signore e signori, ci fa piacere di poter presentarvi il programma del nostro congresso. Con ciò vogliamo dare nuovi impulsi e energie a tutte le psicoterapeutiche corporee. Siamo convinti che i contenuti siano importanti e interessanti per tutte le direzioni psicoterapeutiche, psicologiche e per le dottoresse e dottori di medicina. I conferenzieri vengono da tutto il mondo. I temi contengono i seguenti settori: • Situazione attualli della psicoterapia corporea – dov’é oggi il suo posto? • I nuovi risultati di ricerche della psicoterapia corporea e i suoi settori confinanti – quali influssi potrebbero avere sul nostro lavoro? • Psicoterapia corporea e medicina – reciproco influsso e i molti punti di vista della collaborazione. Un punto importante del congresso deve essere lo scambio e l’esperienza per un ricco e vario lavoro di psicoterapeutico corpore. Con questo progettato corniceprogramma offriamo anchè l’occasione per un incontro piacevole di contatti internazionali e rilassati con le colleghe e i colleghi e interessati. Vi invitiamo di cuore a partecipare! Il comitato del congresso: Dr. Bosse Ahrenfelt, Christine BaderJohannson, MSc., Dr. Michael Heller, Dr. Regina Hochmair, Dr. Elfriede Kastenberger, Bjørn Ødegard, Dr. Eva Wagner-Margetich

mmer 2010 summer 2010 summer 2010 summer 20 Call for papers deadline for submissions 20 JUNE 2010 Das Kongresskomitee lädt Sie herzlich ein, Abstracts für unseren Kongress einzusenden. Im Zentrum der Präsentationen steht die Frage: Wie heilt Körperpsychotherapie? Dabei sollen körperpsychotherapeutische Interventionen und ihr Einfluss auf Emotionen und Affekte, Gedanken und Glaubenssysteme, Körperhaltung und Körperausdruck dargestellt werden. Ihre Präsentation sollte einen der folgenden Themenkreise beleuchten: • Körperpsychotherapeutische Prozesse oder Interventionen mit und ohne taktile Berührung • Der Einfluss von „hands on“ - Arbeit auf Gedanken, Gefühle und Beziehung • Der Einfluss von verbalen, emotionalkognitiven Formulierungen auf körperliche Reaktionen • Körperpsychotherapie in der Medizin Wichtig ist uns die Unterscheidung, ob Sie sich mit Ihrer Präsentation an

KörperpsychotherapeutInnen richten oder an TeilnehmerInnen, die Körperpsychotherapie kennen lernen wollen. Bitte senden Sie Ihr Abstract in Englisch und in der Sprache, in der Sie die Präsentation halten wollen, per E-Mail an [email protected] The congress planning committee cordially invites you to send your abstracts to our congress. We are focusing on the interaction of body- and psychotherapeutic methods as used in body psychotherapy. This implies discussing on how body and mind interconnect. Please check the form on the website: www. We need your abstract in English, and in the language of your presentation. Please send your proposal and eventual questions by e-mail only to [email protected]

12th EABP CONGRESS 29 October to 1 November BODY MIND RELATIONSHIP PROGRAMME FRIDAY 29.10.2010 13.00 – 16.00 First part of EABP GENERAL ASSEMBLY 14:00 – 17:00 On-site Registration 17:00 – 17:45 Congress Opening 17.45 – 18.30 Keynote lecture Prof Musalek (Prof of Psychiatry, head of psychiatric society in Austria) Human Based Medicine - Towards a new paradigm in medicine 18.45 – 20.00 Keynote lecture James Oshmann, PhD: Body Psychotherapy: recent research on information processing 20.00 Welcome reception SATURDAY 30.10.2010 BODY PSYCHOTHERAPY - STATE OF THE ART 09:00 – 09:45 Keynote lecture Ilse Schmidt-Zimmermann: Development of Body Psychotherapy 09:45 – 10.30: Keynote lecture Will Davis: Touching the Body – Touching the self 11.00 – 12.00: Keynote lecture Babette Rothschild: Hands on – Hands off in Body Psychotherapy 13.30 – 18.00 Workshops / Parallel sessions 19:30 Welcome Reception

SUNDAY 31.10.2010 BODY MIND RELATIONSHIP – FROM BASIC SCIENCES TO CLINICAL REALITY 09:00 – 9.45 Keynote lecture Helen Payne: Movement therapy with patients with medically unexplained systems 09:45 – 10:30 Keynote lecture Frank Röhricht: Research and Evaluation in Body Psychotherapy 10:45 – 12:00 Clinical Round Table and Discussion Case studies around common diagnoses and their treatment in body psychotherapy Chair: Bjørn Ødegaard, Bosse Ahrenfelt, Regina Hochmair, Per Harbitz 13.30 – 18.00 Workshops / Parallel sessions 16.30 – 19.30 Second part EABP GENERAL ASSEMBLY 20:00 Congress Dinner – Dine and Dance MONDAY 1.11.2010 FUTURE OF BODY PSYCHOTHERAPY 09:00 - 09:45 Keynote lecture Luciano Rispoli: Psychotherapy of the future from the perspective of modern Functionalism: cure and prevention 10.15 – 12.00 Workshops / Parallel sessions Towards a common ground in BPT Psychiatric Diagnosis and Intervention in BPT 13:30 – 15:00 Workshops / Parallel sessions 15:00 – 16:30 Keynote Lecture 16:30 – 17:00 Conclusions and Highlights of the Congress 17:00 Closing Ceremony

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mmer 2010 summer 2010 summer 2010 summer 20 The afternoon workshops, parallel sessions and lectures are complemented by the following theme afternoons: Common ground in body psychotherapy The history of body psychotherapy Body psychotherapy in medicine – psychosomatics Psychiatric diagnoses and body psychotherapeutic interventions Recent books on body psychotherapy Research in body psychotherapy Presenters: Univ. Prof. Dr. Martin Aigner; Christina Bader-Johansson, Prof. Dr. Kirsten Ekerholt; MSc.; Traude Fellinger; Univ. Prof. Dr. Ulfried Geuter; Dr. Michel Coster Heller; Dr. Regina Hochmair; Dr. Elfriede Kastenberger; Dr. Dipl.Psych. Margit Koemeda-Lutz; Dr. Alfred Künzler; Dr. Thomas Kuzara; Univ. Prof. Dr. med. Hedda Lausberg; Dr. Adrienne Levy-Berg; Dr. Renate Malek; Dr. Elke Mühlleitner; Bjørn Ødegaard, MSc.; Univ. Prof. Helen Payne, PhD, MPhil; Priv.Doz. Dr. Lukas Petzawas; Univ. Prof. Frank Röhricht, MD MRCPsych.; Dr. Dipl. Psych. Manfred Thielen; Nick Totton, Dr. Eva Wagner-Margetich, MA;

Will Davis: The functional approach in body psychotherapy Thursday 28 October Dipl. Päd. Rudolf Müller-Schwefe: Being out of life – being in life – working with primary retreat in depression and trauma Thursday 28 October James Oshman, Prof., PhD Wednesday 27 and Thursday 28 October New concepts and practices for body psychotherapy based on the science of energy medicine Dr. David Boadella and Dr. Silvia Specht-Boadella: The Spectrum of Healing in Biosynthesis Tuesday 2 November Christiane Lewin: Voice workshop - help in healing perinatal trauma Tuesday 2 November Dr. Babette Rothschild: The mind and body of safer trauma therapy Tuesday 2 and Wednesday 3 November Dr. Berit Heir Bunkan, Resource oriented Body Assessment and Treatment. Tuesday 2 November, 1/2 a day.

CONGRESS PLANNING COMMITTEE From Left: Elfriede Kasten­berger, Prof. Martin Aigner, Eva Wagner-Margetich. Regina Hochmair, Bjørn Ødegaard, Christina Bader-Johansson Seated: Michel Heller. Missing: Bosse Ahrenfelt.

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PRE AND POST-CONGRESS WORKSHOPS

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EABP BOARD

Board Members Lisbeth Marcher (President) Mageloekken 6, Snoede DK-5953 Tranekaer Denmark Tel: Wk+45-(0)3535-4321 [email protected]

General Secretary’s report

Sean Doherty (Treasurer/Vice-President) 3 Woodhouse Cliff Headingley, Leeds, UK-LS6 2HF England Tel/Fax: +44-113-278-5601 [email protected]

Lidy Evertsen (General Secretary) Tintorettostraat 29 – I 1017 RP Amsterdam, The Netherlands Tel: +31- 20 -6712099 [email protected]

Bjørn Ødegaard (Membership Secretary) Langet. 24 N-0566 Oslo, Norway Tel/Fax: +47-22-552-092 [email protected]

Angela Belz-Knöferl (Ethics Committee Representative) Lindengasse 3 D-90419 Nürnberg Germany Tel: +49-911-262255 [email protected]

Elfriede Kastenberger (COUNCIL of National Associations and National Committees Representative) Marchetstrasse 10 A-2500 Baden, Austria Tel: +43-225281811 [email protected]

Martin Tidén (FORUM Representative) Kastanie allé 18, DK-2720 Vanløse, Denmark +45-38872400 François Lewin (Board Member) 1400 ch. de Moulares F-34070 Montpellier, France Tel: +33-(0)4-67224050 [email protected]

Courtenay Young (Reserve Board Member) 60 Earlston Road, Stow nr Galashields, TD1 2QT Scotland-UK Tel: +44-773-042-2800 [email protected]

First I need to introduce myself as the new General Secretary of the EABP. This position became vacant after the last congress. In October 2009 I stepped down as a member of the FORUM executive committee and FORUM representative on the Board. I was then co-opted onto the Board as General Secretary. The atmosphere on the Board is great. We work hard, have a good laugh once in a while, and the discussions are honest and creative with a lot of mutual support. Board business: • Planning for the Congress 2010 in Vienna is going very well. Elfriede Kastenberger and the CPC are doing a very good job. • The 2012 Congress will be in Cambridge, UK. • The Board found it interesting and necessary to contribute to the Functional competencies questionnaire by EAP. • Budget 2010. This has been discussed thoroughly in the light of our vision concerning body psychotherapy and EABP development. It is nearly finished; a few changes still need to be considered. • Website redesign. A need for more accessibility was felt. The first steps towards redesigning the website have been taken. • COUNCIL: Contracts with CABP and AIPC have now been signed. • The 50/50 split has kept us pretty busy. A final decision has not yet been taken by the Board. A recalculation is being presented by the COUNCIL for further consideration, which gives a slight difference that will be fairer for all National Associations. • Sean Doherty has stepped down temporarily from the Board for personal reasons. Lidy is fulfilling his treasurer tasks for the time being. • Secretariat. As she is moving out of Amsterdam, Jill van der Aa presented plans for the transition of the secretariat.

Lidy Evertsen Further discussions: • How to make the General Assembly a more lively experience. Several proposals (Jerome Liss, Silke Ziehl, FORUM) have been presented to the Board. From them the Board distilled a division between discussing items and voting on them, discussion taking place in small groups (who might speak their own language) who report back to the plenary meeting. Voting can take place in a separate session. • Brainstorming about the future of BP and EABP has been an important issue during recent meetings of the Board. There have been lively discussions and a lot of creativity. • External relations. EABP needs to present body psychotherapy more to congresses of other realms of psychotherapy to make connections and show itself. • Professional development might go in the direction of developing more common ground in the form of workshops made by trainers of different modalities in order to establish more of a common “brand” of body psychotherapy to the outside world, focusing more on the greater good of body psychotherapy and what we use our tools for within the metier of BP. For that purpose we could measure our methods along the ideas and findings of brain plasticity. Lidy Evertsen General Secretary

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Membership Membership Secretary’s Report

New FULL members We are happy to welcome the following new EABP members who applied since April 2009:

Dear EABP members,

Czech Republic Jan Lorenc

As we all hopefully enjoy the signs of spring, with still plenty of snow in the woods around Oslo, we are well into a very important year for the organisation. The number of members is growing, slowly but steadily. From my position it is not always easy to know how many we reach through our activities. On a daily basis it is few, but I know many are involved through the activities of the FORUM and the National Associations. This year is important most of all because of the congress in Vienna. Signals from the planning committee indicate a very high level of professionalism and there are already speakers of international status on the list. We hope to see you, and would gladly give advice as to things to do before or after the event. What about an evening at the Opera or a concert? Another task of significant importance is the membership survey. To get to know you, to get new ideas for further development and to make EABP more in harmony with your expectations, it is important that you give your ‘vote’ as to how you would like the future politics to be. This survey will be emailed out to you and it you will be able to answer it in English, German, French, Italian, Russian or Spanish. There are not too many questions. Some 15 minutes will be needed. Just do it – please! To make EABP an organisation you can look at with pride, your answers are of utmost importance to us all. Thanks to Kolbjørn Vårdal, Ingerid Heyerdahl and Ingeborg Joachim for their participation in creating this survey. Also thanks to the translators – David Trotzig, Miriam Gablier, Victoria BerezkinaOrlova, Clare Silvestrin and Ingeborg Joachim. We have gained a few extra Candidate and Associate Members over the last two years and we would like to encourage others to join through this category. Candidate Membership is particularly interesting for students who have finished their training but haven’t yet fully completed the Membership Criteria. Perhaps they do not yet have enough practice hours or personal therapy. Associate membership is for people who have a general interest in Body Psychotherapy – and particularly interesting for those outside Europe who may already be members of another organisation, but wish to keep in contact with what is happening in Europe. My predecessor Ingeborg Joachim re-wrote the EABP Membership application forms and procedures and during the past year these have been translated into Serbian, Russian, Spanish, Italian, French and German. This is a massive job and we would like to offer thanks to Ingeborg and to the translators who have completed this work. Further translations will follow. By the way – did you know that as a Full Individual Member of the EABP you can put the following on your website and on your business card: Fully accredited member of the EABP.

Norway Karin Vestenvor

Take care of yourself and those you love. Bjørn Skar Ødegaard [email protected]

DGK – Germany Heinz Borghardt Gabriele Hempel Thomas Harms Frauke Hartenstein Helga Krüger-Kirn Anne Schmitter-Boeckelmann Ulrich Sollmann Monika Zierl PESOPS - Greece Maria Chatzidaki Alkiviades Xanthakis-Tertsetis Evangelog Vidalis Penelope Fortoma Israel Sara Govrin Michaela Moaz NVLP - The Netherlands Wendy van Mieghem Noor Hardenberg RABOP – Russia Elena Saphronova Elena Vorobeva

Kosova Kosova Association for Body Psychotherapy - KABP NOKTA NVLP - The Netherlands Bodynamic Nederland NEW CANDIDATE MEMBERS Bulgaria Zaharina Angelova Savova Mexico Maria Lorenia Parada Ampudia NEW ASSOCIATE MEMBERS Bulgaria Svetla Bankova Mexico Gabina Villagran-Vazquez Denmark Anne Jakobsen DGK – Germany Daniela Varga USA Anthony Greco Lost Members

SABP - Serbia Djordjevic Sladjana

AABP – Austria Kurt Halter

APCCE – Spain Ana Moreno Pueyo Juan A. Colmenares Gil Mª Isabel Navarro Baena Tairé Paredes Álvarez Inma Serrano Hortelano Maria Victoria Roldán Fernández Joan Vilchez Cambronero

Belgium Nelly Pasque-Strivay

CH-EABP - Switzerland Anita Rieder AABP - Austria Unda Kammelberger-Bachmann Christine Egger-Peitler

Denmark Otto Krag DGK - Germany Harry Askitis Dorothee Kayser Thorsten Kerbs Ingrid Kramer Klaus Poschmann Miriam Schmidt Gisela Schmachtenberg Barbara Wanderer Andreas Wehowsky Nina Wülfing

New Organisational Members

Norway Jon Sletvold

Czech Republic Czech BP Organisation

NVLP – The Netherlands Susan Spoelstra

DGK - Germany DAKBT e.V., Deutscher Arbeitskreis für konzentrative Bewegungstherapie e.V. SKT Instituut - Institut für Strukturelle Körpertherapie France Institute for Functional Analysis

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Israel The College of Holistic Medicine

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Candidate Members Individuals who have largely finished training as body psychotherapists, but have not yet completed the full EABP membership criteria. Associate Members Individuals either still in training or just with an interest in body psychotherapy who would like to be associated with EABP. Honorary Members People who have been awarded an EABP Membership for life, free of charge, at an EABP General Meeting in recognition of their services to European body psychotherapy. Bjørn Blumenthal, David Boadella, Gerda Boyesen, Malcolm Brown, Clorinda Lubrano-Kotoula, Eva Reich, Luciano Rispoli and Jay Stattman (post-humous).

Fees 2009 Full Membership € 190 Organisational Membership € 190 Candidate Membership € 95 Associate Membership € 50 Bank Details Name: European Association for Body-Psychotherapy Account number: 9392200 Swiftcode (BIC): PSTBNL21 IBAN Number: NL35PSTB0009392200 Address: ING Financial Plaza, Postbus 1800 1000 BV Amsterdam, The Netherlands Fees can also be paid through the TSB account in the UK or the Credit Suisse account in Switzerland. We can also accept American Express Card. Fax your card details to the Secretariat. With other credit cards you can pay through PayPal.

National Associations AABP -Austria DGK - Germany GABP - Greece AIPC - Italy NVLP - Netherlands RABOP - Russia SABP - Serbia APCCE - Spain CH-EABP - Switzerland CABP - UK Subtotals

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Full

Organisational Members Organisations involved in body psychotherapy; usually training institutes, professional associations, or European organisations representing a modality.

Organisations

MEMBERSHIP MAY 2010

Individual Full Members Individuals who are fully trained, qualified and experienced and who can practice professionally as body psychotherapists.

35 305 65 31 72 24 8 9 75 9 635

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2 12

10

1

58

60

5

Countries without a National Association Belgium 1 Bulgaria 1 1 Czech Republic 1 1 France 7 5 Israel 9 1 Kosova 1 1 Japan 3 1 Lithuania 1 Poland 2 Portugal 1 1 2 Scandanavia 18 3 5 United Kingdom 9 3 Australia 1 South America 2 1 USA 2 1 Subtotals 58 13 3 12

1 3

12 10 2 4 1 2 4 27 13 3 3 4 89

TOTALS 2010 TOTALS 2009 TOTALS 2008 TOTALS 2007 TOTALS 2006 TOTALS 2005 TOTALS 2004 TOTALS 2003 TOTALS 2002

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568 573 551 523 525 502 525 486 449

71 63 62 47 42 40 42 47 29

3 2 3 1 8 5 2 5 36

72 54 63 66 63 72 63 44 34

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Membership Register The EABP Membership Register is kept on the website from information supplied by the National Associations and National Committees. This information makes known publicly who the Full Members and the Organizational Members of the EABP are. We hold a separate listing of Candidate and Associate Members in the office database.

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EABP COMMITTEES If you are interested in participating in one of the following committees please contact Lidy Evertsen [email protected]

The Ethics Committee consists of five people elected at the General Assembly, which deals with all matters touching on the ethical code, procedure for complaints, advice on ethics and similar professional issues. It also acts as an informational resource for EABP members on issues relating to ethics. Chairperson: Angela Belz-Knöferl [email protected] Maarten Aalberse, Michel Heller Felix Hohenau ,Lisbeth Sten-Jensen Ebba Boyesen is reserve member.

• The EABP Bibliography of Body Psychotherapy is now up on the website. • The Membership Handbook is in the process of being rewritten. Jill van der Aa Jacqueline A. Carleton Courtenay Young [email protected]

The Training Standards Committee meets with representatives from the FORUM and has established a set of criteria for body psychotherapy training. The TSC is suspended as a committee until there is a need for it to be reactivated.

The Professional Development Committee oversees and promotes events for the professional development of EABP members. Bjørn Ødegaard [email protected]

The Congress Planning Committee (CPC) organises the biannual EABP Congress. It is chaired by a Board member and may include people from many different countries, as well as from the country where the Congress is planned. The Congress in 2010 is in Vienna, Austria. Elfriede Kastenberger (Chairperson) [email protected] CPC: [email protected] www.eabp.at Bosse Ahrenfelt (Sweden), Christina BaderJohansson (Switzerland), Regina Hochmair (Austria), Bjørn Ødegaard (Norway), Michel Heller (Switzerland), Eva Wagner-Margetich (Austria) Scientific Board of the CPC: Prof. Martin Aigner (University of Vienna), Dr. Margit Koemeda-Lutz. The Publications Committee oversees the creation of EABP literature. • The EABP Website is regularly updated with the latest information by the webmaster, Rien Groenendijk. • An annual Newsletter is sent to members digitally and by post. It is also published on the website. • An Introduction book and a FORUM book are available.

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The Scientific Committee supports projects that further the scientific aims and objectives of EABP and research projects in body psychotherapy.

Ethics Column A woman, mother of two children, is in therapy for a number of months and addresses problems around her divorce. She frequently reports how the children are suffering when they are with the father and how they behave when they return home. The client says that the father is not treating them right. She asks the therapist if he can write a statement for the court about the bad influence the father has on the children when he sees them during the weekend. Can you, the therapist, write such a report? Can you write such a report after having seen both the father and the children? And if you don’t want to write such a report, how does that affect the therapeutic relationship? How will it affect the therapeutic relationship if you write the report? an ethical wrongdoing?

The International Membership Committee reviews any disputed membership acceptances or rejections. EABP Representatives to the EAP Sean Doherty (EABP Board) [email protected] Thomas Riepenhausen (EABP FORUM) [email protected].

Report from the Ethics Committee 2010 We held both of our biannual meetings in Nürnberg, the last one in November 2009. We have several cases to deal with and processed these further. Some of the ethical reflections and questions stimulated us to create fictional cases described in the “Ethics column” in the Newsletter. To raise the awareness of the ethical dimensions of our profession we decided this time to contact the Forum to initiate a dialogue. Another topic of discussions was the importance of receiving external supervision, especially when you feel at home in your method • outside of this modality • outside of body psychotherapy. The next Ethics Committee meeting will be held 3-6 September 2010. The EC is also planning to present a workshop on Ethics at the Congress. The Ethics Committee Angela Belz-Knöferl (Chairperson) [email protected]

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FORUM

FORUM Executive Committee The FORUM is currently headed up by a three-person executive committee who share the organisational responsibilities of the FORUM. Martin Tidén – Coordinator and Symposium Meetings and follow-up [email protected] Thomas Riepenhausen – EAP, Training Standards and membership [email protected] Karin Korpe-Antilla [email protected] Jill van der Aa – FORUM Secretariat [email protected]

ACCREDITED TRAINING INSTITUTES Bodynamic International, Denmark Lisbeth Marcher, Erik Jarlnaes, Kolbjørn Vardal [email protected] www.bodynamic.dk LEP - Institute for Life Energy, Denmark Martin Tidén [email protected] www.lifeenergy-eu.org Finnish Institute of Character Analytic Vegetotherapy, Finland [email protected] www.luonne.fi École de Psychologie Biodynamique Évolutive, France Christiane Lewin, François Lewin [email protected] www.psychologie.biodynamique.com IFCC - Institut de Formation en Communication et Thérapie Psycho-Corporelle, France Eliane Fliegans-Jung [email protected] www.ifcc-psychotherapie.fr Europäische Schule für Biodynamische Psychologie ESBPE e.V., Germany Marianne Wailand [email protected] www.biodynamik.de Aus- und Fortbildungszentrum Transformative Koerperpsychotherapie, Germany Bettina Schroeter [email protected] www.transformativekoerperpsychotherapie.de

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SIB - Società Italiana di Biosistemica, Italy Jerome Liss [email protected] Giorgio Giorgi [email protected] www.biosistemica.org Reidman International College for Body-Centered Psychotherapy, Israel Irit Peleg [email protected] www.reidman.co.il

Hakomi Institute of Europe, Germany Anne Fischer [email protected] www.hakomi.de

NIBB - Nederlands Instituut voor Biorelease & Biodynamische Psychologie, The Netherlands [email protected] Charlotte van der Molen [email protected] www.biorelease.net

Institut für Atempsychotherapie, Germany Stefan Bischof [email protected] www.atempsychotherapie.de

VUP - Vereniging voor Unitieve Psychotherapie, The Netherlands Lidy Evertsen [email protected] www.vuponline.nl

International Institute Core Evolution*Coresoma, Germany Siegmar Gerken [email protected] www.Coreevolution.com

Asas e Raízes, Terapia e Formação Lda, Portugal Thomas Riepenhausen [email protected] www.asaseraizes.pt

Zentrum für integrative Körper- und Psychotherapie, Germany Michael Meiffert Joachim Nordheim [email protected] www.koerper-psychotherapie.de

Tepsinteza - YU Training School of BodySynthesis, Serbia Ljiljana Klisic [email protected] www.tepsyntesis.org.rs

Zentrum für Körpertherapie und Humanistische Psychologie, Germany Gustl Marlock [email protected] Ilse Schmidt-Zimmermann [email protected] www.zikp.de EINA - Greek School of Training in Vegetotherapy & Character Analysis, Greece Clorinda Lubrano [email protected] www.kentroraix.gr SIF - European School of Functional Psychotherapy, Italy Luciano Rispoli [email protected] www.psicologiafunzionale.it

EsTeR - Escuela Española Reichiana, Spain Xavier Serrano [email protected] David Trotzig [email protected] www.esternet.org Institutes not YET accredited Associació Catalana Teràpia d’Integratió Psico-corporal, Spain Ulrike Kaese [email protected] www.psico-corporal.com IKP - Ausbildungsinstitut für Ganzheitliche Therapien, Switzerland ThomasIngold [email protected] Elisabeth Grubenmann [email protected] www.ikp-therapien.com/home.php EABP NEWSLETTER - page 11

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Professional Associations Gesellschaft für Biodynamische Psychologie und Körperpsychotherapie GBPev, Germany Mechthild Münch [email protected] www.gbpev.de AETPR - Association Européenne de Thérapeutes Psycho-Corporels et Relationnels, France Claude Vaux [email protected] www.aetpr-psychotherapie.org APPB Association Professionnelle de Psychologie Biodynamique Miriam Gablier [email protected] www.appb.org ADVISORY MEMBER International Instituut für Biosynthese David Boadella [email protected] www.biosynthesis.org

The FORUM Fee structure Training Institutes Up to 25 students € 80 From 26 - 60 € 180 From 61 - 100 € 270 More than 100 € 360 Professional Associations Up to 25 members € 80 26 - 100 Members € 120 Over 100 Members € 180 Next FORUM Meetings Vienna, Austria 28 October 2010 9.00 – 19.00 hours San Bono Convent, Mallorca, Spain April 29 - 1 May 2011

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Report from the FORUM meetings 9-11 October 2009 in Amsterdam & 26-28 February 2010 in Barcelona The FORUM has continued with its work effectively and the general atmosphere in both of the meetings has been very good, warm and open to differing views. The tradition, that the meetings are opened by symposia where some of the Institutes have the opportunity to present their ways of working, has continued. This has given nurturing compensation for the hard work that is related to the accreditation procedures and political issues. The topics of the symposia have been as following in these two meetings: October 2009 • vertical brain mechanisms for understanding conscious, unconscious and non-conscious knowledge by Jerome Liss (SIB Società Italiana di Biosistemica, Rome, Italy) • presentation on the body-mind intervention with cancer patients and research by Irit Peleg (Reidman International College for Body-Centered Psychotherapy, Tel-Aviv, Israel) • a demonstration of Breathwork by Stefan Bischof (Institut für Atempsychotherapie, Freiburg, Germany). February 2010 • presentation (by Thomas Riepenhausen, Asas e Raizes, Porto, Portugal) and demonstration of biodynamics (by Charlotte van der Molen, NIBB, Amsterdam, The Netherlands) • the scientific model of SIAR by Genovino Ferri with translation from Luisa Barbato (SIAR, Rome, Italy) Membership of the FORUM The FORUM was pleased to welcome one new member: APPB Association Professionnelle de Psychologie Biodynamique from France. Two new institutes have applied for membership. Body-Mind Opleiding, The Netherlands was presented as an applicant for the first time in Amsterdam by Marjolijne van Buren, Jeanette Hollenberg and Henne Arnolt Verschuren. It was presented for the second time in Barcelona by Marjolijne van Buren and Margaret Harten Molenaar. Scuola Italiana Analisi Reichiana (SIAR), Rome, Italy was presented as an applicant for the first time in Barcelona by Luisa Barbato and Genovino Ferri. Decisions have not yet been taken on Membership.

The assessment process was completed for two Training Institutes: Asas e Raizes, Terapia e Formaçao Lda, Porto, Portugal was accredited in Amsterdam. It was represented by Thomas Riepenhausen. In the Barcelona meeting, the Institut für Atempsychotherapie, Freiburg, Germany, represented by Stefan Bischof, was accredited. The FORUM continued its work with the reassessments of the Training Institutes that were accredited in the first wave, 19992001. During the meeting in Amsterdam the following were up for reaccreditation: Finnish Institute of Character Analytic Vegetotherapy, Helsinki, Finland – represented by Gordon Harris and Karin Korpi-Anttila, and NIBB Nederlands Instituut voor Bio-release & Biodynamische Psychologie, Amsterdam, The Netherlands – represented by Charlotte van der Molen and Harry Visser. Finnish Institute of Character Analytic Vegetotherapy was unanimously reaccredited. In the Barcelona meeting the reassessment of NIBB Nederlands Instituut voor Biorelease & Biodynamische Psychologie was continued and it was unanimously reaccredited. In Barcelona also Escuela Española Terapia Reichiana (ES.TE.R.), Valencia, Spain, represented by Xavier Serrano and David Trotzig, was reassessed and unanimously reaccredited. In Amsterdam the FORUM meeting discussed and voted for some changes in the membership criteria, based on proposals made by Lidy Evertsen, a member of the FORUM Executive Committee and the FORUM representative to the EABP board. The following decisions were then made: Firstly, to have two different FORUM memberships: members and accredited members. Secondly, the Training Institutes that teach BPT and do not fulfil the criteria of the EABP Training Standards may be a member of the FORUM if they fulfil the membership criteria. Thirdly, Training Institutes that differ from the Training Standards and can explain this sufficiently can obtain FORUM accreditation. And finally, Institutes that aim for an EAPTI status have to fulfil the training standards in order to be supported by the FORUM in that process.

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mmer 2010 summer 2010 summer 2010 summer 20 Lidy Evertsen withdrew from the FORUM Executive Committee after the meeting in Amsterdam. The three member Executive Committee has functioned well with the shared work load dealt with by Lidy, Martin Tidén and Thomas Riepenhausen. Karin Korpi-Anttila was appointed to the committee as the new member. There was also some discussion on building on the BPT body of knowledge by making workshops in FORUM time on a certain issue with several different methods and modalities. The meeting discussed the idea of workshops – or modules of BPT, which could travel, i.e. on Ethics and supervision. Creating these together might serve to see if cooperation between Training Institutes in this way is possible and fruitful. Additionally, an idea that was expressed was that in the long term the FORUM might set up a foundation training in BPT with representatives from the different Training Institutes and modalities. In the meeting in Barcelona there was a discussion on re-accreditation of the remaining institutes from 1999/2001 accreditation. It was decided that the FORUM will finish the first round of accreditations (those who were accredited in the period 1999-2001) by the Spring meeting 2011. There is also the possibility of doing several re-accreditations in Vienna as the process goes very quickly in the meetings with the renewed assessment system. There was discussion on the principle that the accreditation is for a period of five years. Those institutes that do not complete their re-accreditation in this period, will lose their accreditation. They can remain members, provided of course that they attend meetings. This applies to several Training Institutes who are advised to let the Secretariat know if and when they wish to complete their reaccreditation. An email has been sent out to each of them. In Barcelona there was also a discussion on the situation around shorter body psychotherapy training for working psychotherapists, and a discussion, inspired by the Council report, on how the Training Institutes could encourage their students to attend EABP congresses and other workshops. Related to this, the FORUM discussed further a proposal from the Council that the Board set up a “student thesis” prize. Students would have to make a summary and abstract in English. The meeting also expressed the wish of the FORUM to invite the Board to attend their meeting for an hour or so in Vienna. Karin Korpi-Anttila For the FORUM Executive Committee

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FORUM SYMPOSIUM Amsterdam, The Netherlands 9-11 October 2009 Irit Peleg of the Reidman International College for Body-Centered Psychotherapy, Tel-Aviv, Israel gave a presentation to the FORUM on the body-mind intervention research, which she and her colleagues did with cancer patients. Following is an abstract of that research. Contact: Dr Irit Peleg, Reidman International College, 26 Haim levaon St., Tel Aviv, 63507 Israel. [email protected] Title: Effectiveness of Body Mind Therapy of Cancer Patients receiving chemical treatment. Authors: Dr. Irit Peleg, Dr. Joseph Brenner, Dr. Moti Shimonov, Ofra Ravinda, Dafna Karata Shwartz. Abstract: The difficulties of coping with the crisis caused by the discovery and treatment of cancer and its implications induce a sense of mental and physical distress that influences the patient’s quality of life. Body-mind therapies within the framework of integrative medicine have, in recent years, become an inseparable part of the physical and mental treatments used by patients. There is considerable research evidence of the effectiveness of these treatments for cancer patients. The research objective is to examine the effectiveness of bodymind therapy on cancer patients who are receiving chemical treatment. The research method: 24 cancer patients were sampled, some of whom received body-mind therapies and some constituted the control group. The research process: the research data were collected using a structured, independently completed questionnaire that was validated. The results: four interactions were found according to group and timing, in which an improvement was found after the therapy among the experiment subjects as opposed to the control group. In the area of psychological variables, in the experimental group before the therapy there were more physiological changes (M=4.65) than after the therapy (M=3.97). This measure examined the degree of tiredness, appetite, pain, sleep changes, constipation, nausea, changes in monthly menstruation, general state of health, and changes in outer appearance.

In the area of variables in the economic situation and family situation, before the intervention there were more changes for the worse among the subjects in the experimental group (M=4.92) than among the subjects of the control group (M=2.55), while after the intervention there were no differences between the groups. This index examined the extent to which the disease bothered the family members, whether the support is adequate, and the extent to which the disease disrupted employment and caused an economic burden. In the area of changes for the worse in behaviour, before the intervention there were more changes for the worse among the subjects in the experimental group (M=4.81) than among the subjects in the control group (M=3.36), while after the intervention there were no differences between the groups. This index examined the extent to which the patient is troubled by the first diagnosis, how the disease influences anxiety and depression, and concerns and fears of future diagnoses, fear of additional cancer, metastasis, and fear of the future. In the area of negative changes following the disease, before the intervention there were more changes for the worse among the subjects of the experimental group (M=4.91) than among the subjects of the control group (M=3.98), while after the intervention there were no differences between the groups. This index is comprised of a mean of five indices: psychological changes related to the disease, changes in the economic situation and situations in the family, changes for the worse in the sexuality and social relations, changes for the worse in behaviour, and changes and concerns related to the disease. As the cancer patient receives more bodymind therapies, his physical and emotional immune system is strengthened (2.3), his ability to cope with crisis increases (4), his tension and anxiety are reduced (5.6), his level of tiredness is lowered (6.7), he acquires knowledge to relax the body and enable it to strengthen itself, and the ability to recover vitality, essentialness, and general quality of life increase (8). As the patient adopts positive thinking on life in general and on his personal situation in particular, the changes of his recovery will increase (9) and his relations with his significant other and his friends will improve (10).

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mmer 2010 summer 2010 summer 2010 summer 20 PROFILE:

INTERNATIONAL INSTITUTE OF CORE EVOLUTION AND CORESOMA Directors: Siegmar Gerken Ph.D., ECP, HP (Psychotherapy) Cornelia Gerken CMP, HP (Psychotherapy) www.CoreEvolution.com [email protected]

Mission Statement: We understand our commitment and work of over thirty-five years in Core Evolution as a contribution to an emotionally integrated, peaceful society. In our work with individuals, couples and groups, professional trainings, organizational consulting, conflict resolution and personal healing, we facilitate a deeper understanding of our present day life issues to raise the consciousness and quality of life. We search to touch the essence of a person with competence, love and joy, supporting the full potential to be realized. The Work Core Evolution is a relational, psychodynamic, body-oriented therapy. It is also a Life Coaching and general teaching system for people working with people. We developed it as an innovative, professional approach for a new Whole Person Psychology. Its foundation is the comprehensive understanding that essence and life energy is expressed through our Core – the center of the individuated universal life energy, a wellspring of healing, joy, creativity and wisdom. Since 1971 Cornelia and Siegmar have been very fortunate to be able to learn with most pioneers in the humanistic and body-oriented movement, including 20 years with J.C. Pierrakos, MD. Siegmar’s early work in the Free Clinic in Heidelberg (1971/72) his involvement with Zist (Gestalt School and seminars 1973 -75) and living at Esalen in 1976 laid the foundation for a wide integration of methods, which after decades of constant further learning and innovation is now reflected in the Energy & Consciousness Programs ® of bodyoriented therapy: CORE EVOLUTION®.

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Our work is based on: • contemporary scientific research on the interaction of body and mind, • the therapeutic foundations of relational, emotion-focussed, body-oriented psychotherapy, • family systems • developmental theories of bonding and attachment • and our own research-based approach to Trauma Therapy • incorporating Western and Eastern teachings Core Evolution unifies knowledge and intuition, science and the wisdom of the heart, psychology and philosophy. It explores the interconnectedness of life as it manifests in the unity of body, emotions, feelings, mind, will and the field of consciousness. With that it provides the basis for a deeper understanding of the dynamic interrelationship of energy and consciousness, how they affect our personal development, the formation of our personalities, as well as our interactions with others and the world, thus influencing our perceptions of reality. Research Whenever a thought is perceived or a feeling felt, we experience it in the somatic realm. Now, with contemporary research about the interaction of body and mind in developmental neuroscience, preand perinatal psychology, attachment theories, affect regulation and the expanded observation in early childhood development and other findings, we can confirm these insights and empiric knowledge in our work. Our Institute is also conducting its own research in cooperation with K.P. Schlebusch, MD and Prof. F.A. Popp (discoverer of the Biophotons) in the interconnectedness of psycho-emotional processes and their effect on the body, mind and healing. The Trainings in Core Evolution and CoreSoma The training is a certification program taught by pioneers and leaders in the field of psychodynamic, body-oriented and heart-centered therapy.It addresses our multidimensional reality. Its theory and practice developed out of our experience and insights from the following approaches: • Analytic-based, emotion-centered, body-oriented therapy • Gestalt, Humanistic, Transpersonal and Integral psychology

• Family therapy and Systems Theory • Behavioral approaches • Buddhist and Sufi psychology • Energy and Complementary Medicine. These essential teachings are unified into a Whole Person Psychology, honoring the integrity and wholeness of the person, approaching each individual with mindfulness, empathy and compassion. CoreSoma CoreSoma is a specialization of Core Evolution, sharing the same underlying theory and understanding, with an expanded focus on: • Developmental Movement: Building the missing links in the developmental movement patterns, which support the integral functioning of our body-mind interaction in our present life • Hands-On Approaches: Working with the body through direct hands-on touch, specialized psycho-emotional massages and bodywork • Body-language: Developing a form of dialogue, inviting the body to speak— and listening for its voices to be heard • Dreamwork: Extending this dialogue to engage the unconscious and the higher intelligence through dreams • Subtle Energies: Working directly with subtle energy fields. Present research underlines the importance of our early non-verbal, but embodied experiences. Therefore working with the body directly through touch is enormously rich. Parts of us are non-verbal, they do not speak the language of the mind or the will. These parts rely on a different type of contact, communication, and presence in order to be heard. Cornelia offers specialized workshops in CoreSoma, which can be taken independently or in conjunction with the Core Evolution Training. We provide a 9-page curriculum for our trainings. Our trainings are conducted in different European countries, USA, South America and soon planned in Australia. Specialized trainings are held for Behavioral Psychologist (with educational points) as well as business seminars. Please check www.CoreEvolution.com for locations and times of trainings. The International Institute of Core Evolution • CoreSoma is an acknowledged member of the • EABP • Forum • EAP • AHP • ATP.

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mmer 2010 summer 2010 summer 2010 summer 20 Le colloque des 19/20 mars 2010 à Strasbourg Le colloque des 19/20 mars, coorganisé par la FF2P et l’AETPR, a été l’occasion de réunir plus de 250 personnes sur le thème de “La thérapie psychocorporelle, à la croisée du corps, des émotions et de l’esprit”. L’assistance comptait de nombreux psychothérapeutes en exercice ou en cours de formation ainsi que des personnes curieuses de découvrir ou d’approfondir leur connaissance de notre discipline. L’attention est restée soutenue tout au long de ces 2 journées. Les différents intervenants et les thèmes abordés, les courants psychocorporels, la recherche, la maladie et la souffrance, la spiritualité, la chimie du cerveau, la dépression ont suscité un vif intérêt chez les participants en apportant une vision élargie de la psychothérapie à la lumière d’éléments complémentaires et éclectiques. Les ateliers proposés ont tous été l’occasion d’une découverte expérientielle de différentes approches psychothérapiques pour de nombreux participants. Le film de Michel Meignant sur l’EMDR a remporté lui aussi un vif succès. Le buffet apéritif du vendredi soir et les danses traditionnelles proposées ont été l’occasion d’un moment de plaisir partagé. Le Bureau de l’AETPR vous remercie de votre présence et vous donne rendez-vous pour son prochain colloque en 2012. Fait par Claude VAUX, membre du Bureau de l’AETPR

Professional development Congresses Body psychotherapy training courses, events and workshops University programmes

CONGRESSES July 2-5, 2009 16 th EAP Congress Lisbon, Portugal Meanings of Happiness and Psychotherapy www.europsyche.org July 1-4 17th EAP Congress Crisis, change and challenge Bucharest, Romania October 21-25, 2010 USABP Congress Unravelling Trauma: Body, Mind and Science John F. Kennedy University, Pleasant Hill, California October 29-November 1, 2010 12th EABP Body Psychotherapy CONGRESS Body Mind Relationship Vienna, Austria http://www.eabp.at [email protected] August 24-28, 2011 6th WCP World Council for Psychotherapy Congress Sydney, Australia World Dreaming www.wcp2011.org

BODY PSYCHOTHERAPY TRAININGS, EVENTS and Workshops Below are some of the training courses, symposia, events and workshops listed on the websites of the EABP National Associations and FORUM Training Institutes. For further information we refer you to their websites. FRANCE INSTITUT DE FORMATION EN COMMUNICATION ET THÉRAPIE PSYCHO-CORPORELLE (IFCC) [email protected] www.ifcc-psychotherapie.fr 12-16 juillet 2010 Séminaire de thérapie psycho-corperelle Liens et dependance

Eliane Jung-Fliegans et Claude Vaux Dans le nord de l’Italie ECOLE BIODYNAMIQUE [email protected] JUILLET – SEPT 2010 CONFERENCES PARIS – Samedi 18 septembre de 16h à 19h Portes Ouvertes de l’Ecole Biodynamique Centre Parisien de Psychologie Biodynamique – 59, bd de Ménilmontant – 75011 Paris Entrée gratuite sur inscription Présentation de l’Ecole, Conférence de Christiane Lewin, Atelier découverte des massages de Bio-intégration MONTPELLIER – Samedi 25 septembre de 16h à 19h Portes Ouvertes de l’Ecole Biodynamique Centre de Psychologie Biodynamique – 999, av du Pont Trinquat – 34000 Montpellier Entrée gratuite sur inscription Présentation de l’Ecole, Conférence de François Lewin, Atelier découverte des massages de Bio-intégration LYON – Samedi 25 septembre de 16h à 19h Portes Ouvertes de l’Ecole Biodynamique Centre de Psychologie Biodynamique – 24 ter, av Guy de Collongue – 69130 Ecully Entrée gratuite sur inscription Présentation de l’Ecole, Conférence de François Lewin, Atelier découverte des massages de Bio-intégration MODULES DE 1er CYCLE / EXPERENTIAL WORKSHOPS Open to the general public MONTPELLIER – du samedi 10 au samedi 17 juillet Guérir le passé pour construire le futur François Lewin Centre de Psychologie Biodynamique – Chemin du Moulin – 34 690 Fabregues Coût : 845 €

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mmer 2010 summer 2010 summer 2010 summer 20 Pour dénouer les conditionnements douloureux, la Psychologie Biodynamique a su développer un travail sur les séquelles du passé et ses empreintes psychiques et corporelles. La régression positive permet de boucler des cycles émotionnels inachevés et de réparer les souffrances engrammées afin d’augmenter le bien être autonome et la liberté. Nourri par ces expériences correctives qui nous ouvrent à notre énergie essentielle, notre dynamique de vie se re-déploie et notre âme ressurgit à notre conscience. Ce stage cherchera à trouver les mémoires psycho-corporelles pour guérir les blessures oubliées et cependant si agissantes dans notre existence. MONTPELLIER – du jeudi 19 au dimanche 22 août Cycles émotionnels et régulation neurovégétative Alberto D’Enjoy Centre de Psychologie Biodynamique – Chemin du Moulin – 34 690 Fabregues Coût : 595 € Les techniques et les massages de bio intégration sont expérimentés en s’appuyant sur les théories biodynamiques du cycle émotionnel et de la gestion du stress. Ces pratiques s’attachent tout d’abord à rétablir la vitalité et l’autorégulation par la remise en route du psycho-péristaltisme (fonction des intestins pour « digérer » les émotions). Ce travail à la fois corporel, émotionnel et verbal, amène un relâchement profond et une remise en circulation de l’énergie vitale. Un réel processus de purification biologique peut s’enclencher avec des sensations de plaisir, de légèreté et un élargissement de la conscience. PARIS – du jeudi 16 au dimanche 19 septembre La thérapie familiale Rubens Kignel Centre Parisien de Psychologie Biodynamique – 59, bd de Ménilmontant – 75011 Paris Coût : 595 € Notre personnalité est une réponse créée pour s’adapter aux conflits dans lesquels nous avons grandi. Nous nous construisons à travers un monde familial chargé de rites plus ou moins explicites. Or les règles cachées sont des conditionnements qui nous agissent sans connaissance ni maîtrise. La thérapie familiale va mette à jour ces structures sous-tendant nos attitudes et nos traits de caractère. On va s’intéresser au système familial, mettre en scène la

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place et le rôle de chacun, pour repérer les interactions des uns et des autres et délivrer chacun des rôles assignés. Cette approche systémique biodynamique est très fructueuse pour supprimer les freins à la réalisation de soi même pour trouver sa juste place dans le monde. LYON – du jeudi 30 septembre au dimanche 3 octobre De la rencontre du père à l’indépendance François Lewin Centre de Psychologie Biodynamique – 24 ter, av Guy de Collongue – 69130 Ecully Coût : 595 € Dans notre société en mutation, les fonctions parentales sont en première ligne sur le front du changement et en particulier la place du père. Il est traditionnellement l’interface entre le monde familial et le monde extérieur. Les repères et les valeurs sociales qui se sont quasiment inversés en quelques décennies rendent caduques les anciens modèles sans que les rôles nouveaux soient apparus. Ce déficit de sécurité de l’archétype « Père » peut amener la peur de l’inconnu ou au contraire une quête de reconnaissance dans des défis de plus en plus grands. Retrouver la force et l’appui du parent masculin est comme sentir derrière soi un arbre solide, réserve de force, appui et allié dans l’épreuve. Ce stage permettra de clarifier et dépasser l’interaction personnelle avec son père, pour aller au delà de lui, rencontrer son archétype « Père » figure vivante depuis toujours au fond de nous. SPECIALISATIONS Open to Bodywork Psychotherapists PARIS – du mercredi 30 juin au dimanche 4 juillet Psychothérapie et guérison énergétique – niveau ii Achim Korte Centre Parisien de Psychologie Biodynamique – 59, bd de Ménilmontant – 75011 Paris Coût : 800 € La psychothérapie peut connaître une grande accélération si nous utilisons de manière précise les outils de guérison énergétiques. Osons aussi le mot « spirituel ». La guérison spirituelle active le lien entre notre vie personnelle incarnée et la dimension de Source ou de Guidance, cette relation fait croître en nous notre autorité intérieure. Akbashev dit « Ceux qui connaissent le sens de la vie ne sont plus manipulables ». Dans cette formation nous allons aborder puis

développer comment travailler dans les corps des énergies subtiles et comment intégrer cette approche particulière dans le processus thérapeutique. PARIS – du samedi 25 au dimanche 26 septembre (1er stage – 5 modules en tout) La psychothérapie fonctionnelle : vers un système intégré alliant la prévention et la thérapie Luciano Rispoli Centre Parisien de Psychologie Biodynamique – 59, bd de Ménilmontant – 75011 Paris Coût du 1er stage: 320 € La Psychothérapie Fonctionnelle analyse les interactions entre les différents plans et niveaux de la personne, du Soi. Avec sa méthode multidimensionnelle, il est devenu possible de comprendre la dynamique des troubles qui ne sont jamais « uniquement physiques » et ni jamais « uniquement psychiques ». Le développement de la Psychothérapie Fonctionnelle amène un véritable changement qui permet d’examiner de façon globale les fonctions de l’être humain et des organismes tels que la famille, les groupes, les institutions. Il y a des expériences dans la vie de l’enfant qui ont une importance fondamentale. En thérapie on peut reconstituer précisément les expériences de bases identifiées, pour récupérer les capacités vitales. Germany HAKOMI Fortbildungen Psychotherapie [email protected] www.hakomi.de Das komplette Fortbildungsangebot des HAKOMI INSTITUTE of Europe finden Sie im HAKOMI Programm 2010, erfahrungsorientierte Körperpsychotherapie: 3-4 tägige Einführungsworkshops (Processings) und 3-jährige Trainings in HAKOMI Psychotherapie - in vielen Städten Deutschlands, sowie in Österreich und der Schweiz. Darüber hinaus das Training “Grundlagen therapeutischer Begleitung”, “HAKOMI Interpersonal” und vieles mehr. ZENTRUM FÜR INTEGRATIVE KÖRPERUND PSYCHOTHERAPIE [email protected] www.koerper-psychotherapie.de

mmer 2010 summer 2010 summer 2010 summer 20 Sommerworkshop Der Workshop beginnt am Sonntag den 11.7.2010 gegen 19 Uhr und endet am Samstag den 24.7.2010 mit dem Frühstück. Der Workshop findet statt auf der „Azienda agricola POGGIOLO“, einem alten Weingut in der Nähe von Perugia. Den Workshop führen wir (Jochen Nordheim, Michael Meiffert) durch zusammen mit Annedore Hansen, Dipl. Psych. Psychologische Psychotherapeutin, Linda McNeal, Psychologist MA. Der Workshop ist von der Psychotherapeutenkammer in Hamburg als Fortbildung mit 80 Fortbildungspunkten anerkannt. Der Workshop ist als Bildungsurlaub entsprechend dem Hamburger Bildungsurlaubsgesetz anerkannt! INTERNATIONAL INSTITUTE OF CORE EVOLUTION AND CORESOMA [email protected] www.CoreEvolution.com

October 13-17 Santiago, Chile Summer Intensive November 11 – 14 Oslo, Norway Beginning of 1st Scandinavian Training in Core Evolution INSTITUTE FOR LIFE ENERGY mailto:[email protected] http://www.lifeenergy-eu.org Trainigsübersicht Das Trainingsprogramm, um ein Life Energy Process-Professional zu werden, strukturiert sich in verschiedene Trainingslevel, so dass jeder Trainee für sich entscheiden kann, wie weit er/sie gehen möchte. Die verschiedenen Ebenen bauen aufeinander auf, so dass sie nur in dieser Reihenfolge absolviert werden können. 18. bis 24. Juli 2010 Sommerkonferenz

June 23 – 27 Bogota, Colombia South American Intensive - Intensivo Sudamericano Body, Mind and Soul - El Cuerpo, Mente y Alma July 18 – 23 Big Sur, Esalen, California, USA Love, Sexuality and Relationship - The Will of Your Heart July 28 – 30 Zist, München, Germany Liebe, Sexualität und Beziehung July 31 - Aug. 3 Slovenia Slovenia Summer Intensive August 4 – 7 Germany Self-Image, Mindfulness and Leading From Within Bringing Change Management into New Dimensions A Relational Management Intensive August 17 – 22 Trimurti, France Live Your Essence with the Will of Your Heart

Seit über 20 Jahren organisiert das Institute for Life Energy die jährliche internationale Sommerkonferenz in Italien. Von Beginn an ist die Idee dieser Konferenz einen Rahmen zu bieten, in dem persönliche Forschung und Erfahrung in einer intensiven Woche einher geht mit einer entspannten und genussvollen Atmosphäre gemeinsam mit anderen. Während der Woche gibt es eine Fülle von Möglichkeiten Life Energy Process mit seinen verschiedenen Formen kennen zu lernen, ebenso wie pure Erholung am Pool. INSTITUT FÜR ATEMPSYCHOTHERAPIE [email protected] www.atempsychotherapie.de Allgemeine Angebote: 13.04. - 29.07.2010 Da sein am Dienstagmorgen Sonnenhof, Freiburg

Fortbildungen für Atemtherapeuten: 17.03.2010; 12.05.2010; 25.08.2010; 13.10.2010; Atem & Meditation, aufbauend Institut Y. Zehnder 10.-12.09.2010 Fortbildung für AtemtherapeutInnen: Verletzung, Ärger und Wut Ursulinen Convent; A4,4; 68159 Mannheim (neben Ökum) Bildungszentrum St. Clara) 20.11. - 21.11.2010 Institutstagung 2010 Supervision in der Atem- und Körperpsychotherapie Freiburg Ergänzungsausbildung: 22.04. - 25.04.2010, 24.06. - 27.06.2010, 02.09. - 05.09.2010 Ergänzungsausbildung 2009 Freiburg Atempsychotherapie 2009/10 Leitung S. Bischof und A.Rieder als Assistentin Sonnenhof, Freiburg 03.-06.06.10 Ergänzungsausbildung 2010 Freiburg Atempsychotherapie 2010/11 Leitung S. Bischof mit B.Häberle, G.Haas und A.Rieder Am 3. Juni 2010 startet die nächste Ergänzungsausbildung in Atem- und Körperpsychotherapie in Freiburg. 3-jährige, 10-teilige, berufsbegleitende Ausbildung in Atem- und Körperpsychotherapie (tiefenpsychologisch orientierter, psychotherapeutischer Atemtherapie) für AbsolventInnen einer Grundausbildung in Atemtherapie oder in einem anderen Verfahren der Körpertherapie. 25.09. - 26.09.2010 Prüfungsseminar in Atempsychotherapie “Sonnenhof”, Freiburg 22.01.2011 Vorbereitungstag zur Ergänzungsausbildung 2010 Atempsychotherapie 2010/11 Leitung S. Bischof und B.Maas Yogawerkstatt, Plinganserstr. 23, 81369 München

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mmer 2010 summer 2010 summer 2010 summer 20 NETHERLANDS NEDERLANDS INSTITUUT VOOR BIO-RELEASE & BIODYNAMISCHE PSYCHOLOGIE (NIBB) [email protected] www.biorelease.net 12-13 juni 2010 Introductie training di.av. 18 mei t/m 29 juni Bio Release Vervolgcursus 7 dinsdag avonden 1 t/m 4 juli 2010 Pulsatie in De Bron 27-29 augustus 2010 Start weekend Biodynamische massage opleiding 13 en 14 september 2010 Fases van Bonding: 19 september 2010 Open dag op de Kleine Swaen Hier kan worden kennisgemaakt met de Bio Release- cursussen. Er wordt ook informatie gegeven over de opleidingsprogrammas. U kunt workshops volgen en u kunt een korte biodynamische massage ervaren. BODYNAMIC NEDERLAND Amsterdam, The Netherlands Registration by 1 June, (Forms on the website) Shock Trauma Training Workshop 2: Crisis Management, June 10 to 13, 2010 Workshop 3: Stress in Groups, November 19 to 21, 2010 Scandinavia BODYNAMIC INTERNATIONAL [email protected] www.bodynamic.dk Bodynamic International teaches in Denmark, Norway and Sweden. Practioner Træning : Næste 3-årige starter 2011. Ikke dato-sat endnu They also teach (in the English language) in the Netherlands, Japan, Germany, Greece, Russia, Australia, USA and Canada. The Bodynamic Institutes in USA and Canada have their own websites (as does the Netherlands) with in-depth information on the Bodynamic system. Articles in English describing different aspects of the Bodynamic work are available – if you would like a copy please contact them by e-mail: [email protected].

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SPAIN ESCUELA ESPAÑOLA REICHIANA (ES. TE.R.) http://www.esternet.org [email protected] Nuevas promociones en Barcelona y Valencia curso formación en prevención y ecologia de sistemas humanos. matricula abierta. plazas limitadas. El curso comenzará en noviembre 09 o en enero 2010, Más información del y el programa del curso en el archivo adjunto o en la página web : www.esternet.org Para solicitar información puedes ponerte en contacto con la sede de la es.te.r . tfno: 96 -3727310 SWITZERLAND INTERNATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR BIOSYNTHESIS IIBS [email protected] www. biosynthesis.org In 2010 / 2011 / 2012 the introductory courses take place as follows: 3 days (Friday-Sunday), all in Heiden/ Switzerland (near St. Gallen). Each training begins in May. It lasts over 3 years and consists of 3 course modules of 7 1⁄2 days (4 1⁄2 weekdays and 3 weekend days) per year. The payment commit- ment is for one year at a time. If necessary the contract can be cancelled at the end of each year. UK Training courses leading to a qualification as a Body Psychotherapist are offered by the following organisations: CAMBRIDGE BODY PSYCHOTHERAPY CENTRE (CBPC) http://www.cbpc.org.uk LONDON SCHOOL OF BIODYNAMIC PSYCHOTHERAPY http://www.lsbp.org.uk CENTRE FOR INTEGRAL-RELATIONAL LEARNING (CIRL) CIRL will be offering a Post- Qualification Body Psychotherapy Training for experienced practitioners and a Group Facilitation Training in the near future http:www.cirl.org.uk LONDON INSTITUTE FOR BIOSYNTHESIS Tel: +44 (0) 20 8236 0218 http://www.londoninstituteforbiosynthesis. com

CHIRON CENTRE FOR BODY PSYCHOTHERAPY [email protected] www.chiron.org The Chiron Centre offers an extensive Body Psychotherapy CPD programme for psychotherapists and counsellors. Most of the workshops and seminars are facilitated by CABP members. 18th & 19th September 2010 in London A 2-day intensive workshop Identity and Trauma (Workshop 3) with Merete Holm Brantbjerg [email protected] [email protected] UNIVERSITY Programmes Austria SIGMUND FREUD UNIVERSITY Vienna, Paris [email protected] www.sfu.ac.at/ Sigmund Freud University (SFU) was accredited as a private university by the Austrian Accreditation Council in August 2005. As a university in the field of Human Sciences, SFU specializes in Psychotherapy Science and Psychology. Professor Alfred Pritz serves as Director of Sigmund Freud University, and Professor Giselher Guttmann serves as Academic Dean. Sigmund Freud University pioneered the study of Psychotherapy Science as an academic degree. This program approaches Psychotherapy by emphasizing research activities, practical training, and academic exchange among different psychotherapy schools. Sigmund Freud University is one of the only academic institutions in the world, where Psychotherapy is taught at an undergraduate level. The Faculty of Psychotherapy Sciences at Sigmund Freud University offers the Bachelor’s, Master’s, and Doctoral Programs in Psychotherapy Science, as well as psychotherapy training in a variety of methods, including Behaviour Therapy, Psychoanalysis, Individual Psychology,

mmer 2010 summer 2010 summer 2010 summer 20 Gestalt, Person-centred Psychotherapy and Systemic Family Therapy. All degree programmes in Psychotherapy Science are offered in German and in English. The Bachelor’s Programme in Psychology is at this time offered in German only. The Sigmund Freud University Outpatient Clinic provides Psychotherapy services in German and English. There are currently 50 registered psychotherapists and about 100 supervised students at the clinic. Sigmund Freud University hosts the annual International Summer School in Psychotherapy—an intensive, four week program in the fundamentals of psychotherapy theory and practice for students and professionals from around the world. The Eastern European Institute at Sigmund Freud University was established in 2008, with the goals to aid in the development of the field of Psychotherapy in Eastern European nations, and to establish a Psychotherapy Research Center that deals specifically with Eastern European issues. Source: wikipedia ITALY EUROPEAN SCHOOL OF FUNCTIONAL PSYCHOTHERAPY Napl es, Catania, Florence, Roma, Padova [email protected] Luciano Rispoli Two-Year Master Programme for doctors, psychologists and psychotherapists www.bodyfunctionalpsychotherapy.com Two-Year Master For Doctors, Psychologists and Psychotherapists This Master of Specialisation, lasting two years, is designed for psychologists, doctors and psychotherapists who wish to acquire a sound knowledge of the Functional Approach in its theoretical aspects and clinical application. It takes place on 10 week-ends in the course of a year (one a month from January to December), plus three topic-based workshops, for a total of 202 hours per year. NB The European School of Functional Psychotherapy is an EABP accredited Training Institute.

predominant or subordinate. Whereas the concepts of psyche and soma (seen not as separate entities but as having a substantial functional identity) are unduly vague and generic, the concept of “Function” makes it possible to probe the specific details and workings of the individual without losing sight of the whole picture or focusing on different “parts”. Using the Functional model it is possible to establish how the various processes and levels of the Ego interact, to perceive the possible alterations or incongruities which may intervene during personal development and the course of a lifetime, and to arrive at a concrete analysis in terms of the evolution of the so-called Base Experiences. Thus rather than referring to “typologies” (of whatever nature), Functional Psychology produces a diagnosis which is finely adjusted to the individual, accompanied by integrated alternative itineraries designed to recuperate those Base Experiences which prove to be deficient or distorted. UK UNIVERSITY OF HERTFORDSHIRE Masters in Body Oriented Psychological Therapies Body Psychotherapy Dance Movement Psychotherapy With Professors Helen Payne and Frank Röhricht [email protected] www.herts.ac.uk QUEEN MARGARET UNIVERSITY, EDINBURGH Masters in Science (MSc) in Dance Movement Psychotherapy Accreditation as a Dance Movement Therapist (now Psychotherapist) through the UK Health Professions Council. [email protected] www.qmu.ac.uk

Functional Psychology is based on a unitary and circular conception of the psychical and corporeal processes in which all the Functions are seen as playing an equal part in the organisation of the Ego, with no single one being EABP NEWSLETTER - page 19

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mmer 2010 summer 2010 summer 2010 summer 20 The EABP COUNCIL of National Associations and National Committees meets in the last weekend of January each year to discuss and evaluate issues relating to the National Associations and Committees.

NATIONAL ASSOCIATIONS AABP - Austria President: Elfriede Kastenberger [email protected] Secretary: Eva Wagner-Margetich [email protected] Treasurer: Margarete Finger-Ossinger [email protected] www.aabp.at DGK - Germany President: Manfred Thielen [email protected] Secretary: Margit Grossmann [email protected] Treasurer: Ralph Vogt [email protected] COUNCIL Representative: Dagmar Rellensmann [email protected] www.koerperpsychotherapie-dgk.de Secretariat: Axel Schulz sekretariat@ koerperpsychotherapiedgk.de PESOPS - Greece President: Despina Markaki [email protected] Vice President: Kostis Gourtsoulis General Secretary: Maria Kyritsi [email protected] Treasurer: Sofia Petridou [email protected] Member: Ioanna Stefanaki [email protected] www.pesops.gr AIPC - Italy President: Giuseppe Carzedda [email protected] COUNCIL Representative: Fabio Carbonari [email protected] Vice-President: Maurizio Stupiggia email: [email protected] www.psicoterapiecorporee.it RABOP - Russia Board Chairperson: Galina Chentsova [email protected] COUNCIL Representative: Victoria Berezkina-Orlova [email protected] www.rabop.ru

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COUNCIL

Next Meeting: 28-30 January 2011 Rome, Italy. Chairperson of the COUNCIL Dr. Elfriede Kastenberger [email protected]

National Committees SABP - Serbia President: Ljiliana Klisic Djordjevic [email protected] APCCE - Spain Spanish National Association President: Tairé Paredes [email protected] Secretary: Juan Antonio Colmenares [email protected] Treasurer: Xavier Serrano Hortelano [email protected] EABP COUNCIL Representative: David Trotzig Fax: +34 93 347 62 28 [email protected] http://eabp.org/org/apcce.html CH-EABP - Switzerland President: Christina Bader-Johansson [email protected] Vide-President: Jürg Thomet [email protected] Treasurer: Doris Guidon [email protected] www.ch-eabp.ch. NVLP - The Netherlands President: Joop Valstar [email protected] Secretary: Elisabeth de Lange [email protected] www.nvlp.nl CABP - United Kingdom Chiron Association for Body Psychotherapists (UK) Chairperson: Kathrin Stauffer [email protected] EABP Contact: Diane Chipperfield [email protected] Membership enquiries: Heather French [email protected] www.body-psychotherapy.org.uk

France Christiane Lewin-Gros [email protected] Eliane Fliegans-Jung [email protected] Scandinavia Kolbjørn Vårdal [email protected]

National Representatives Australia Carolyn Musgrave [email protected] Belgium Marie Schils [email protected] Israel Irit Peleg [email protected] Kosova Enver Cesko [email protected] Poland Irena Folta Parnowska [email protected] Portugal Thomas Riepenhausen [email protected] South America Rubens Kignel [email protected] United States of America Jacqueline A. Carleton [email protected]

mmer 2010 summer 2010 summer 2010 summer 20 COUNCIL report REPORT of the COUNCIL MEETING January 29- 31, 2010 London, UK The COUNCIL met 29- 31 January in London hosted by CABP. Victoria Berezkina-Orlova (RABOP) Fabio Carbonari (AIPC), Enver Cesko (NOKTA), Dianne Chipperfield CABP), Elisabeth de Lange (NVLP), Kostas Gourtsoulis (PESOPS), Elfriede Kastenberger (AABP), Ljiljana Klisic (SABP), Dagmar Rellensman (DGK), Kathrin Stauffer (CABP), Jürg Thomet (CH-EABP), David Trotzig (APCCE), Joop Valstar (NVLP), were all present representing their National Associations. ALL of the National Associations were present for the first time, which made for an excellent meeting. Sean Doherty, EABP Board member and representative to the EAP attended, and Jill van der Aa (EABP Secretariat) was present to take the minutes. In her report to the COUNCIL, Elfriede Kastenberger expressed her regret that there had not been more Skype meetings during the year. She reported that much more emphasis is now being given to translation of EABP documents and reports. Elfriede was elected unanimously to continue as COUNCIL Chairperson and representative to the Board and expressed her willingness to continue.

Coming together in the COUNCIL meeting gave them a feeling of belonging in a wider context, and that they were not alone. Even though NAs are at different stages of development, there is an increasing sense of everyone working together in the same direction. Discussions are bearing fruit. On the ‘fruitful’ side: • many more publications on body psychotherapy are being published by members of the associations • many NAs are planning small congresses and symposia • membership continues to grow, although more slowly since the ECP wave • some of the bioenergetic people are drawing closer. Elisabeth de Lange from the Netherlands took leave of the COUNCIL. She is standing down from the NVLP committee. There will be a COUNCIL meeting at the Congress in Vienna, The meeting in January. 2011 will be hosted by the AIPC in Rome. Elfriede Kastenburger – COUNCIL Chairperson

COUNCIL members were not satisfied with Board decisions around the 50/50 split and worked to find an alternative solution, which they felt was more equitable. They have asked the Board to take this new proposition into consideration for 2011 at the latest, and if possible already for 2010. Member Associations of the COUNCIL have created a fund to assist representatives from smaller countries to attend the meetings. They ask that applications be accompanied by a financial report. Sean Doherty gave some thoughts on the EAP Template. The COUNCIL held a brainstorming session in small groups. They discussed the issue of how to get young people involved with the EABP. They made a proposal to the FORUM that Training Institutes could require their students to go to a local body psychotherapy symposium and one EABP conference in order to engage the younger people. They also proposed to the FORUM that it could ask Training Institutes to look for the best theses of their students and submit them to the EABP for publication on the website in their own language, with an abstract in English. They also suggested awarding a prize for the best student thesis each year. Several NAs spoke of the work being done in their country using body psychotherapy in social contexts – i.e. with children and babies in a private context (Spain), with adolescents (Greece), with disabled people to bring them into the public system (Russia), with people in banks for stress work (Kosova). The COUNCIL discussed how body psychotherapy could be used more in social contexts, for instance using Trauma Therapy in crisis areas*. It was suggested that there might be EU funding for this sort of project. There was much exchange between the NAs on the situation for body psychotherapy in their own countries and the problems they face. In many National Associations the burden of the NA work falls on a small number of people, which causes considerable concern. They reported that EABP members sometimes feel disconnected from the EABP, and that this is partly a language problem.

Back row from left: Kathrin Stauffer, Victoria Berezkina, Elisabeth de Lange, Kostas Gourtsoulis, Elfriede Kastenberger, David Trotzig, Jürg Thomet, Dagmar Rellensman, Front row: Joop Valstar, Ljiljana Klisic, Sean Doherty, Enver Cesko

* Siegmar Gerkin (Core Evolution) was in Chile during the earthquake and offered a Trauma workshop. See his article on page 54.

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mmer 2010 summer 2010 summer 2010 summer 20 REPORT FROM AABP - Jan. 2010 Austrian Association for Body Psychotherapy Die AABP hat zur Zeit 24 Voll-Mitglieder, ein Ehrenmitglied und 11 associate members. Unsere wichtigste Aufgabe ist die Anerkennung als „Psychotherapeutische Ausbildungseinrichtung“. Als Grundlage dafür haben wir eine Weiterbildung für PsychotherapeutInnen entworfen und organisiert. Ulfried Geuter hat das Antragspapier formuliert, dies wurde großzügig finanziell von der Ch-EABP und von der DGK unterstützt. Damit hoffen wir, die formale Einreichung um Anerkennung in Kürze durchführen zu können. Und dann brauchen wir sehr viel Geduld….. Weiters arbeiten wir, gemeinsam mit der Ch-EABP, an der Organisation des EABP Kongresses Ende Oktober (www.eabp.at). Im „Forum Fortbildung“ treffen wir uns mehrmals jährlich; dabei stellt jeweils ein/e KollegIn neue und interessante Entwicklungen im beruflichen Feld vor. Elfriede Kastenberger – Vorsitzende

Der- bis viermal jährlich finden die Treffen des „Forums Fortbildung“ (früher „Kollegialer Austausch“) statt: eine KollegIn stellt ein Thema vor, das sie interessiert, das für die wichtig ist. Elfriede Kastenberger – Chairperson AABP

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AABP has now 24 full members, 11 associate members and one honorary member. The most important activity for the AABP in the last year has been the work being done on the recognition of body psychotherapy in Austria. Several people from different bp schools, who have been working together, have developed a body psychotherapy training, which is necessary for accreditation. Ulf Geuter has written a document to demonstrate the theoretical background, which also proves that body psychotherapy is a modality of its own, that it works and is used internationally. The development of this document has been generously supported by CH-EABP and the DGK. Our thanks for this. It is an excellent paper that combines the experiences of body psychotherapy with research coming out of the neurosciences. We hope to do the formal act of requesting accreditation in the near future. And then we need a lot of patience! The AABP is also working hard to organise the EABP Congress in October 2010, together with CH-EABP. We have three or four meetings a year: “Kollegialer Austausch”, where members get together and share topics of interest. Elfriede Kastenberger – Chairperson AABP

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• The 17th GA on 25 April 2009 hosted a lot of participants. Founder of the CH-EABP, Dr. Thomas Ehrensperger, received an honorary membership and a case of good wine. One of the members gave a speech of acknowledgment, pointing out Thomas’s pioneer work and the good economic base he created, thanks to the congresses he organized. We have one new member, but have lost three old members. In the afternoon workshop we danced to the five Rhythms of Gabrielle Roth. We (Jürg Thomet) participated in the COUNCIL meetings in Frankfurt 2009 and in London 2010. Christina Bader-Johansson and Michel Heller are very busy with preparations for the congress in Vienna 2010, organized by the Austrian and Swiss National Associations of EABP. Our webmaster Lukas Szabo has kindly taken over the management of the website for the congress. During 2009 we have had at least five new applicants whose membership will be accepted at the GA, 2010. In addition to these new members, we have actualized our information sheet for new members. We are also planning to add the category ‘candidate member’ and will vote on that on the GA 2010. Christina Bader-Johansson has travelled twice to Pristina, Kosovo and has given workshops and single body psychotherapy sessions to the participants of the BPT training. CH-EABP paid for the travel costs. Christina has also worked out a syllabus for the 3-year BPT Training in Kosovo, together with Enver Cesko (Kosova), Sibylla Huerta-Krefft (Germany) and Rene Kostka (Switzerland). This will be presented to the GA 2010. We have visited some of the BPT Training Institutes to recruit possible new members. Our homepage has been renewed. Doris Baumeler, together with Lukas Szabo, is in the process of finishing it. Important texts can now be read in three languages - German, French and English. We have financially supported the Austrian EABP in the process of getting the acknowledgement for the Austrian body psychotherapy association. Doris Guidon was part of the organization committee for the Seminar on 23rd January 2010 entitled Burn-out prophylaxis, body psychotherapy methods in Dialogue. CH-EABP and the Institutes of IBP and Bioenergetics cooperated with referees and workshop leaders. There were 90 participants! This dialoguing over a given theme will be repeated.

Actual and future ideas and projects • We would like to create more media presence on themes about body psychotherapy, and will continue to encourage our members to have newspapers and magazines writing about us. • We would like to brainstorm on What are the essentials in body psychotherapy? • We will continue our financial support to countries from the Balkans and Eastern Europe.

mmer 2010 summer 2010 summer 2010 summer 20 • We continue to support research dealing with the theme of BPT. • Our GA will be held on 24th of April 2010. The afternoon workshop will be given by Thea Rytz on the theme of Body Awareness Therapy based on mindfullness, regulation of emotions and stress reduction. Her focus will be on eating disorders and PTSD. We are very satisfied about our cooperation in the board of CHEABP, with our secretariat and with our revision. We especially thank Michel Heller who is supporting the board in the preparation work for the congress in Vienna. Members: 52 full individual members, 12 organisational members, 10 associate members (individual and organisational). Jürg Thomet – President Christina Bader Johansson – Vice President Doris Guidon, Doris Baumeler – Board Members

Jahresbericht des CH-EABP Liebe Kolleginnen und Kollegen; Wir blicken auf ein interessantes und vielseitiges Jahr zurück. Viele unserer Projekte und Arbeiten scheinen langsam Früchte zu tragen. Wir möchten Euch gerne berichten, was sich im vergangen Jahr alles tat und weiterhin tut. • Am 25. April 09 haben wir die gut besuchte 17. Generalversammlung durchgeführt. Bei unserem ehemaligen Präsidenten Thomas Ehrensperger haben wir uns mit der Ehrenmitgliedschaft für seine langjährige Tätigkeit im Verband und im Feld der Körperpsychotherapie mit Worten und Wein bedankt. Im Workshop am Nachmittag haben wir miteinander die 5 Rhythmen nach Gabrielle Roth getanzt. • Wir haben an den EABP Councils in Frankfurt im Januar 2009 und in London 2010 teilgenommen. • Am Samstag 23. Januar 2010 hat in Zürich die gut besuchte Tagung „Burnout und Burnout-Prophylaxe, Körperpsychotherapeutische Methoden im Dialog“ stattgefunden. Es war eine Zusammenarbeit mit dem IBP Institut und mit der Bioenergetischen Vereinigung. Gegen 90 TeilnehmerInnen haben teilgenommen. Es war ein sehr erfolgreicher Anlass, der hoffentlich fortgesetzt wird. • Am 24.4.2010 findet unsere GV mit Workshop zum Thema Achtsamkeitsbasierter Körperwahrnehmungstherapie, Emotionsregulation und Stressreduktion (mit Fokus auf Essstörungen und Posttraumatischer Belastungsstörung, PTBS) mit Thea Rytz statt. • Die Vorbereitungen für den Kongress des EABP vom 29.10. – 1.11.2010 in Wien laufen auf Hochtouren. Alle Informationen dazu wie Programm, Call for Papers, Anmeldung etc. findet ihr auf der Kongresshomepage www.eabp.at, auf unserer Homepage www.ch-eabp.ch, auf der österreichischen Homepage www.aabp.at oder auf der internationalen www. eabp.org. Die Organisation ist eine Zusammenarbeit zwischen der Schweiz und unseren österreichischen KollegInnen. Christina Bader-Johansson und Michel Heller vertreten uns im Organisationskomitee. • Die neu gestaltete Homepage (weiterhin unter: www.cheabp.ch) ist weit fortgeschritten. Mit einer übersichtlichen Struktur sind Infos schnell zu finden. Einzelne Themen sind neu gestaltet. Wichtige Texte sind in 3 Sprachen zu finden. Deutsch, Englisch, Französisch. Ausserdem wird es einen neuen Bereich nur für Mitglieder geben. Verbessert wurde auch die Möglichkeit für die Mitglieder, eigene Aktivitäten bekannt zu machen.

• Übersetzungen: Wir haben mit dem europäischen Verband zusammen begonnen, wichtige Papiere in mindestens 3 Sprachen (deutsch, französisch, englisch) zu übersetzen. Die meisten Infos an unsere Mitglieder haben wir auch auf Französisch übersetzt. Falls gewünscht möchten wir auch an der GV für Übersetzung sorgen. • Neumitglieder: Im 2009 haben mehrere KollegInnen einen Antrag für eine Mitgliedschaft gestellt und werden an der GV 2010 zur Aufnahme vorgeschlagen. Das freut uns ausserordentlich. Insbesondere die Zusammenarbeit mit der Atempsychotherapieschule von Stefan Bischof hat sich intensiviert und interessierte KollegInnen haben sich beworben. Im Zusammenhang mit den Neuaufnahmen haben wir die Informationen für interessierte Neumitglieder aufgearbeitet. • Der internationale Verband EABP hat eine zusätzliche Mitgliedschaftskategorie, die Candidate members. (kandidierende Mitglieder). Sie ist gedacht für KollegInnen, die eine Ausbildung im Wesentlichen abgeschlossen haben, jedoch noch nicht alle Bedingungen für die Vollmitgliedschaft erfüllen. Diese muss innerhalb von 3 Jahren in eine Vollmitgliedschaft umgewandelt werden. Diese Kategorie möchten wir auch bei uns einführen. (Antrag an der GV) • Mitgliedschaftskriterien: Wir schlagen der GV vor, unsere Mitgliedschaftskriterien in Bezug auf die Psychotherapeutischen Ausbildungskriterien (nicht die der Grundausbildung) an die der Europäischen Vereinigung anzugleichen. Die Unterscheidung „Ordentliches bzw. Ausserordentliches“ Mitglied (europäisch beide Vollmitglieder) möchten wir beibehalten. (siehe Erklärung am Schluss). (Antrag an der GV) • Wir unterhalten gute Kontakte mit dem EABP-Vorstand und den andern nationalen Vereinigungen und Komitees des EABP. Wir haben mehr Kontakt zu unseren Schulen. Wir versuchen, Ausbildungsteilnehmern unserer Mitgliedschulen den CH-EABP näher zu bringen in der Hoffnung, sie als Mitglieder werben zu können. Wir unterstützen finanziell und mit Weiterbildung Länder aus dem Balkan und Osteuropa, die Mitglied des EABP werden wollen und wir unterstützen neue Studien, die in Bezug zur Körperpsychotherapie stehen • Immer wieder begleitet uns die Idee herauszuarbeiten, was das Essentielle in der Körperpsychotherapie ist. Dies möchten wir auch mit Interviews und Texten über Körperpsychotherapie in den Medien erreichen. Wir ermuntern unsere Mitglieder, in ihrer Umgebung dasselbe zu tun. Im letzten Jahr sind auch einige interessante Publikationen und Bücher zum Thema Körperpsychotherapie erschienen, die wir auf unserer Homepage vorgestellt haben. • Der Vorstand stand in regelmässigem Kontakt. Wir freuen uns über die gute Zusammenarbeit innerhalb Vorstandes, mit unserem Sekretariat und mit unserer Revision. Wir bedanken uns auch bei Michel Heller, der als Mitglied des Kongressorganisationskomitees unseren Vorstand in der Organisation des Kongresses in Wien unterstützt. Insbesondere bedanken wir uns auch bei unseren Mitgliedern, die uns in verschiedener Weise und nicht zuletzt auch mit den Mitgliederbeiträgen in unserer Arbeit unterstützen. Wer gerne in unserem Verband mitarbeiten möchte, ist herzlich eingeladen. Anzahl Mitglieder: 52 ordentliche und ausserordentliche Mitglieder (full members) 12 Institutionsmitglieder, 10 assoziierte Mitglieder Für den Vorstand: Jürg Thomet – Präsident Christina Bader-Johansson – Vizepräsidentin, Doris Guidon, Doris Baumeler – Mitglieder des Vorstandes EABP NEWSLETTER - page 23

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mmer 2010 summer 2010 summer 2010 summer 20 BERICHT DER DEUTSCHEN GESELLSCHAFT FÜR KÖRPERPSYCHOTHERAPIE (DGK) German Association for Body Psychotherapy Liebe KollegInnen, seit dem letzten EABP-Newsletter hat der Vorstand der DGK verschiedene Aktivitäten unternommen, die im folgenden ausschnitthaft vorgestellt werden. Am 5.12.09 hat in Frankfurt/M. die 8. Fachtagung der DGK zu den Themen „Körperpsychotherapeutische Eltern- Baby-Therapie“ und „Überlegungen zu einer modernen Körperpsychotherapie“ mit Vorträgen von Thomas Harms (Bremen) und Ilse SchmidtZimmermann (Frankfurt) stattgefunden. Im Anschluss an die spannenden Vorträge fand eine lebendige Diskussion statt. Mit ca. 50 TeilnehmerInnen war die Fachtagung deutlich besser besucht als üblich. Danach fand eine sehr gut besuchte Mitgliederversammlung (MV) auf der Basis des Tätigkeitsberichts des Vorstandes statt. Im Anschluss folgte das Treffen der DGK-Aus-FortWeiterbildungsinstitute zum Thema: „Essentials und Standards eines einheitlichen Aus-Weiterbildungscurriculums“, an dem Vertreterinnen der meisten, in der DGK organisierten Gesellschaften und Institute, wie: Bioenergetik, Biodynamik, Hakomi, Unitive Körperpsychotherapie, Integrative Körperpsychotherapie, Transformative Körperpsychotherapie, der tiefenpsychologisch fundierten Tanztherapie u.a. teilnahmen. Mittlerweile ist auch „Der Deutsche Arbeitskreis für Konzentrative Bewegungstherapie (DAKBT)“ organisatorisches Mitglied der DGK geworden, was uns sehr freut. Damit sind nun nahezu alle bekannten Schulen der Körperpsychotherapie in Deutschland Mitglied in der DGK. Mit diesem wichtigen Projekt verfolgen wir das Ziel, die verschiedenen Curricula der verschiedenen Richtungen der Körperpsychotherapie mehr zusammenzuführen und gemeinsame Essentials zu formulieren. Einerseits ist eine zunehmende Vereinheitlichung der Ausbildungskriterien in Körperpsychotherapie dringend notwendig, um überhaupt eine Chance auf weitere wissenschaftliche Anerkennung (z.B. durch den Wissenschaftlichen Beirat Psychotherapie [WBP] u.a.), oder um evt. in die Weiterbildungsordnung der Bundespsychotherapeutenkammer (BPtK) aufgenommen zu werden. Andererseits sind die verschiedenen Richtungen der Körperpsychotherapie in den letzten Jahren inhaltlich zunehmend mehr theoretisch und praktisch zusammengewachsen (s. Marlock/Weiss, 2006; Vogt, 2008; Thielen 2010 u.a.), was sich auch in gemeinsamen Ausbildungsstandards ausdrücken sollte. Mit diesem Prozess vollziehen wir das nach, was andere NichtRichtlinienverfahren wie die Gestalttherapie, das Psychodrama oder die Transaktionsanalyse bereits längst getan haben. Das heißt aber nicht, dass die Eigenständigkeiten und Besonderheiten der eigenen Richtung, aufgegeben werden sollten. Wir wollen ein körperpsychotherapeutisches Basiscurriculum entwickeln, das natürlich auch Platz für Eigenständigkeiten der jeweiligen Richtungen (z.B. Bioenergetik, Biodynamik, Biosynthese, Core-Energetics, Unitive Körperpsychotherapie, Integrative Körperpsychotherapie, Analytische Körperpsychotherapie, Konzentrative Bewegungstherapie,

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Funktionelle Entspannung u.a.) haben soll. Die erste Diskussion fand anhand der Trainingsstandards der EABP und des EABP-Forums statt. Im folgenden Tätigkeitsbericht sind unsere zentralen Projekte benannt, die ich noch um ein weiteres wichtiges Projekt erweitern möchte. Der Wissenschaftsverantwortliche der DGK Frank Röhricht und ich haben noch einweitere Studie zu „Körperpsychotherapie bei Depressionen“ initiiert. Es soll eine RCT-Studie in Berlin durchgeführt werden. Bei der Durchsicht der bisherigen Studien zur Körperpsychotherapie fiel uns auf, dass zu dem Hauptindikationsbereich: affektive Störungen (vor allen Depressionen) bisher kaum Studien, insbesondere keine RCT-Studie, vorliegen. Für eine evt. Anerkennung der Körperpsychotherapie durch den WBP ist eine solche aber von zentraler Bedeutung. Von daher freuen wir uns sehr, dass Frank Röhricht bereit ist in Kooperation mit der Berliner Charite´ (Priv. Doz. Dr. Dimeo) diese Studie durchzuführen. „Tätigkeitsbericht der DGK für das Jahr 2009 (Ausschnitte) Manfred Thielen (Vors. der DGK) 1. Das Engagement der DGK um die weitere wissenschaftliche Anerkennung der Körperpsychotherapie In den vielfältigen Gremien ((Delegiertenversammlung der Bundespsychotherapeutenkammer (BPtK), Redaktionsbeirat des „Psychotherapeutenjournal“ (PTJ), der Berliner Psychotherapeutenkammer (PTKB), dem Gesprächskreis II (GK II), der Arbeitsgemeinschaft Psychotherapie (AGP), dem Berliner „Bündnis für psychische Gesundheit“ u.a.)) wird immer wieder deutlich, dass ein Psychotherapieverfahren in der offiziellen Psychotherapie in Deutschland die berufsrechtliche Anerkennung als „wissenschaftlich anerkanntes Verfahren“ haben muss, um nicht wissenschafts- und berufspolitisch immer weiter ins Abseits gedrängt zu werden. Nach dem Willen des Vorstandes der BPtK und auch der Mehrheiten in allen Vorstände der Landespsychotherapeutenkammern läuft diese Anerkennung nur über den „Wissenschaftlichen Beirat Psychotherapie“, obwohl dessen einseitige und an RCT-Studien-orientierte Wissenschaftskriterien sowohl von vielen Berufs- und Fachverbänden (AGP, vor allem GwG, VPP, DGSF, z.T. BVVP, DGK u.a. ) als auch Gerichten (OVG NRW) seit vielen Jahren kritisiert werden. In diesem Zusammenhang ist eine Initiative des „Verbandes Psychologischer Psychotherapeutinnen und Psychotherapeuten“ (VPP im BDP) besonders positiv hervorzuheben. Am 25.4.09 fand in Berlin auf Einladung des VPP ein “Großer Ratschlag” statt. Zu diesem Treffen waren alle relevanten Gesellschaften und Verbände eingeladen, die Nicht-Richtlinienverfahren in Deutschland vertreten. Anwesend waren VertreterInnen der Gestalttherapie, der Gesprächspsychotherapie, der Systemischen Therapie, des Psychodramas, der Transaktionsanalyse und der Körperpsychotherapie. Es wurde darüber diskutiert, welche evt. gemeinsame Strategie entwickelt werden soll, um sowohl die berufs- als auch die sozialrechtliche (Kassenanerkennung) Anerkennung dieser Verfahren zu erreichen. Es entstand die Idee, dass wir uns entsprechend dem Modell von Prof. Kriz (Uni Osnabrück, bekannter Systemiker und G.T´ler) der vier Grundorientierungen in der Psychotherapie: kognitiv-behavioral, psychodynamisch, systemisch und

mmer 2010 summer 2010 summer 2010 summer 20 humanistisch als „Humanistische Psychotherapie“ im weiteren Sinne zusammenschließen. Der Begriff „Humanistische Psychotherapie“ wäre ein gemeinsames Dach, ähnlich wie der Begriff „Verhaltenstherapie“ und „Psychodynamik“, unter dem die verschiedensten Verfahren firmieren würden. Z.B. gibt es in der Psychodynamik die unterschiedlichsten Richtungen wie: Freudianer, Jungianer, Adlerianer, Selbstpsychologen, Interrelationale, Interpersonale, Kleinianer u.a. Unter dem Namen „Humanistischen Psychotherapie“ würden auf der Basis eines gemeinsamen Menschenbildes und gemeinsamer übergreifender theoretischer und praktischer Grundlagen Verfahren wie: Gesprächspsychotherapie, Gestalttherapie, Körperpsychotherapie, Psychodrama und Transaktionsanalyse firmieren. In einer AG Humanistische Psychotherapie“ werden die gemeinsamen Grundlagen diskutiert und am 22.4.10 beim 3. großen Ratschlag vertieft bzw. abgestimmt. Der Vorteil eines solchen Zusammengehens wäre für alle Verfahren, dass sie bei ihren potenziellen Anträgen auf wissenschaftliche Anerkennung die Kriterien des WBP nicht als einzelne Verfahren, sondern als psychotherapeutische Grundorientierung erfüllen müssten, d.h. die geforderte Anzahl von RCT-Studien könnten von allen gemeinsam erbracht werden. Dies hätte natürlich riesige Vorteile, als Grundorientierung „Humanistische Psychotherapie“ würden wir die Wissenschaftskriterien des WBP locker erfüllen. In diesem für die Anerkennung der Körperpsychotherapie wesentlichen Prozess stehen drei zentrale Projekte der DGK: • die von unserem Wissenschaftsverantwortlichen Prof. Dr. Frank Röhricht (London) geleitete empirische RCT-Studie zur „Körperpsychotherapie bei Psychosomatosen“. Die Studie läuft bereits seit fast 1 Jahr. Frank Röhricht hat auch einen sehr guten Überblicksartikel über den Stand der empirischen Forschung in der Körperpsychotherapie geschrieben, der in der renommierten Zeitschrift: Body, Movement and Dance in Psychotherapy. (Röhricht, Frank ,2009 ‘Body oriented psychotherapy. The state of the art in empirical research and evidence-based practice: A clinical perspective’, Body, Movement and Dance in Psychotherapy,4:2,135) erschienen ist. • das Wissenschaftsprojekt von PD Dr. Ulfried Geuter zum wissenschaftlichen Stand der Körperpsychotherapie, das als Buch 2010/11 im Springer-Verlag erscheinen soll. Als Teil dieses Projektes ist die maßgebliche Mitarbeit von Ulfried Geuter am Antrag für das Institut der Österreichischen Vereinigung für Körperpsychotherapie (AUSTRIAN ASSOCIATION FOR BODY PSYCHOTHERAPY, AABP) auf wissenschaftliche Anerkennung der Körperpsychotherapie in Österreich zu sehen. Die DGK hat dieses Projekt auch finanziell mit 5.000.- € unterstützt. Die Ausarbeitung für die österreichische Anerkennung wird die Körperpsychotherapie insgesamt voranbringen und auch für unseren Anerkennungsprozess sehr hilfreich sein, von daher haben wir die AABP gerne unterstützt. • die Positionierung der DGK im Rahmen des Projektes „Humanistische Psychotherapie“, d.h. den Zusammenschluss mit den erwähnten Verfahren zu einer gemeinsamen psychotherapeutischen Grundorientierung und einem gemeinsamen Antrag beim WBP. Die Positionierung der DGK zur Musterweiterbildungsordnung der BPtK und der Weiterbildungsordnung der Landespsychotherapeutenkammern.

2. Körperpsychotherapie und Weiterbildungsordnung der Landespsychotherapeutenkammern A) Wie bereits erwähnt dreht sich eine der wichtigsten aktuellen berufspolitischen Entscheidungen in dem offiziellen Feld um die Frage, ob wir uns als KörperpsychotherapeutInnen dafür einsetzen wollen, dass die Körperpsychotherapie als Verfahren in die Musterweiterbildungsordnung der Bundespsychotherapeutenkammer (BPtK) und in die Weiterbildungsordnungen der Landespsychotherapeutenkammern aufgenommen wird. Dafür spricht: a) dass der Status der Körperpsychotherapie verbessert würde, bisher hat sie im Rahmen von Fortbildungsordnungen einiger Länderkammern (z.B. Berlin, Hamburg, Hessen) den Status eines wissenschaftlich begründeten Verfahrens im Unterschied zu den wissenschaftlich anerkannten Verfahren (Verhaltenstherapie, Psychoanalyse, tiefenpsychologisch fundierte Psychotherapie, Gesprächspsychotherapie, Systemische Therapie). Bisher gibt es als Weiterbildungsverfahren nur die „Neuropsychologie, die vom „Wissenschaftlichen Beirat Psychotherapie“ (WBP) für nur wenige Indikationsbereiche anerkannt wurde. b) Wenn die Delegiertenversammlung der BPtK für eine Erweiterung der Musterweiterbildungsordnung für andere Verfahren votieren wird – was anzunehmen ist- würden Verfahren wie die wissenschaftlich anerkannten Verfahren aufgenommen und wenn die Körperpsychotherapie, zusammen mit anderen Nicht-Richtlinienverfahren (Gestalttherapie, Psychodrama, Transaktionsanalyse u.a.) auch integriert würden, dann wären wir ihnen von Seiten der Kammern faktisch gleichgestellt. c) Die DGK müsste, um ein Verfahren der Weiterbildungsordnung werden zu können, ein einheitliches Curriculum erstellen, dass die Körperpsychotherapie als Ganze repräsentiert und nicht die Besonderheit von einzelnen Schulen. Diese Aufgabe steht schon seit längerem an und ihre Bewältigung würde uns auch inhaltlich qualitativ voranbringen. Die Zeiten, in denen die Körperpsychotherapie von Pionieren und Pionierinnen der ersten und zweiten Generation und ihren verschiedenen Schulen und Richtungen geprägt wurde, sind m.E. längst vorbei. Die Körperpsychotherapie hat sich ganzheitlich und eigenständig, insbesondere auch durch die Integration neuer wissenschaftlicher Erkenntnisse, besonders der Säuglings- Bindungsforschung und Neurowissenschaften, weiterentwickelt. In den letzten Jahren wurden von exponierten VertreterInnen der verschiedensten Richtungen (Bioenergetik, Biodynamik, Biosynthese, CoreEnergetik, Hakomi, Analytische Körperpsychotherapie, Unitive Körperpsychotherapie, Pesso-Boyden-Methode, Integrative Körperpsychotherapie, Transformative Körperpsychotherapie, Konzentrative Bewegungstherapie, Funktionelle Entspannung, Integrative Leib- u. Bewegungstherapie, tiefenpsychologisch fundierte Tanz- und Bewegungstherapie u.a. ) zunehmend die gemeinsamen theoretischen und praktischen körperpsychotherapeutischen Grundlagen herausgearbeitet ((vgl. Marlock/Weiss (Hg.), 2006, Handbuch der Körperpsychotherapie. Stuttgart/New York, Schattauer-Verlag, Vogt, R. (Hg.), 2008, Körperpotenziale in der traumaorientierten Psychotherapie. Gießen, Psychosozial Verlag. Thielen, M. (Hg.) (2010) Körper-Gefühl-Denken. Körperpsychotherapie und Selbstregulation. Gießen, Psychosozial Verlag)). EABP NEWSLETTER - page 25

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mmer 2010 summer 2010 summer 2010 summer 20 REPORT FROM Π.Ε.ΣΩ.Ψ PESOPS Greek Association for Body Psychotherapy In 2009, PESOPS continued its work and efforts towards the establishment of body psychotherapy in Greece. We now have 48 active full members and 15 associate members – a slight increase over 2008. The 2009 financial crisis all around the globe affected Greece as well as our profession and the ability of people to invest in subscriptions to professional bodies, which prevented our association from growing as much as we had expected. Of course, the 50/50 split of the membership fees, which was in effect for 2009, really contributed to our growth and the addition of new members as well as the maintenance of our existing membership, and brought feelings of optimism, autonomy and equal respect which were extensively expressed in our General Assembly. Body psychotherapists in Greece are still in the process of obtaining the ECP through the Greek NAO of EAP (N.O.P.G-Π.Ε.∑Ω.Ψ). The cost of this is considerable and creates an additional barrier to the increase of PESOPS membership. In 2009 PESOPS has actively participated, with workshops and lectures from our colleagues, in the 6th Symposium of NOPG (Π.Ε.∑Ω.Ψ), which was held on May 30th 2009 and entitled The crisis in the Psychotherapeutic Procedure: Danger or Opportunity? We will continue our fruitful cooperation with Π.Ε.∑Ω.Ψ by participating in the 7th Symposium, which is expected in Spring 2010. In 2008 and 2009 the Greek Tax Authorities decided to create three new categories/codes of ‘official’ professions: psychotherapist, counselor and child psychologist in addition to the already existing one of psychologist. Although the creation of a separate category for psychotherapists adds value to our profession and the Ministry of Finance is starting to recognize our profession, the Ministry of Health has unfortunately still not made the expected announcements. This is despite the fact that we are included under the overall categorization of professions related to mental health. Once more, the state system is proving itself inconsistent. However we will continue using any available means to promote our profession. In our General Assembly held on October 10th, 2009 we concentrated on considering ways to use the negative climate of the crisis to the benefit of body psychotherapy. It was finally decided to plan and organize our first symposium for body psychotherapy in order to utilize every possible means to promote body psychotherapy and its relation to society through the correlation of body and communication. The main theme of our Symposium is: Body: Psychotherapy, Society, Communication and will be held on May 9th, 2010 in the city centre. Our main themes in this Symposium will be: 1. Dominating perception of dualism in science, society and psychopathology. Contemporary evidence for the existence of functional unity of soul and body. 2. Differentiation of body psychotherapy from other therapeutic techniques of the body (e.g. physiotherapy, Feldenkreis, relaxation techniques, meditation, medicine). 3. The methodology of body psychotherapy (Character-analytic Vegeto-therapy), diagnosis, body counter-transference, language of the body, etc.

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4. Comparison between group body psychotherapy and other group therapeutic techniques and modalities 5. Contemporary social psychopathologies and body. 6. Prevention of neurosis: adolescence, pre-adolescence. The Symposium will be supported by two respected Greek professors from the University of Athens: Mrs. Pepi Rigopoulou (Sociology – Pantion University) and Mrs. Dimitra Makryonitou (University of Athens), as well as by Professor Genovino Ferri, who will travel from Italy to participate in a round table discussion. We have already set up different committees to focus on organizational, scientific and communication aspects related to the proper conduct of this event. You are all welcome to the Symposium and we will be happy to assist you with the translation since the official language will be Greek. We are happy to announce the finalization of our website, which is expected to be up by the end of the month (red. It is up!). In addition to this we are also finalizing the creation of a brochure about PESOPS. Finally we continue with business as usual in 2010, working towards the goals of the association and the common goals of our members. Despina Markaki – President Kostis Gourtsoulis – Vice President Maria Kyritsi – Secretary

REPORT FROM AIPC – Jan.2010 Italian Association for Body Psychotherapy At the COUNCIL meeting in January, Fabio Carbonari reported that the Association is publishing a book on their last Congress created from the existing video- and audiotapes. In 2011 they are organizing another Congress and inviting several international trainers. Membership of the Association has now settled – they have six full individual members and nine organisational members. The Agreement between the EABP and the AIPC has now been signed. AIPC will host the next COUNCIL Meeting in Rome in January 2011. Fabio Carbonari – AIPC Representative to the COUNCIL Nel COUNCIL meeting di gennaio, Fabio Carbonari ha riportato che l’Associazione italiana sta pubblicando gli atti dell’ultimo congresso, utilizzando le registrazioni audio e video realizzate durante il congresso stesso. Inoltre, si sta lavorando alla realizzazione del prossimo congresso. E’ previsto per il 2011 con gli interventi di diversi relatori di fama internazionale. Si è provveduto ad una ricognizione degli iscritti in regola; al momento del meeting risultano sei membri individuali e nove istituti. Il Presidente dell’AIPC ha firmato l’agreement con EABP. L’AIPC ospiterà in Roma il prossimo COUNCIL Meeting a Gennaio 2011. Fabio Carbonari – AIPC Representative to the COUNCIL

mmer 2010 summer 2010 summer 2010 summer 20 REPORT FROM NVLP – APRIL 2010 Dutch Association for Body Psychotherapy

At the moment we are fully involved in preparing the biannual Symposium for 29th May Trauma in Practice. The three main modalities that developed bodypsychotherapeutic trauma treatment – Bodynamics (Ditte Marcher), Sensorimotor Psychotherapy (Andy Harkin) and Somatic Experiencing (Larry Heller) will be represented in presentations and workshops. In addition there will be workshops from colleagues on methods, practice and trauma in every day life. The team is working well and we expect a full house and a really interesting meeting. As a result of several meetings with related training institutes and associations new initiatives for more cooperation in the organizational and post-training educational field have been taken. The need to strengthen the base and face of body-psychotherapy both inside and to the outside blooms up as a Tao flower. In the March General Assembly we dealt with the ongoing Board Crisis. Since Gees Boseker resigned as treasurer and Elisabeth de Lange definitely wants to finish her long-term secretary job there is no legal or realistic base to continue. Thanks to the efforts of some members there is growing interest among the somewhat younger generation to join the board. An extraordinary meeting in June will hopefully bring the concrete results and the start of a new era in NVLP. Joop Valstar – Chairperson Elisabeth de Lange – Secretary

REPORT FROM RABOP – JAN. 2010

Russian Association Body-oriented psychotherapists In general the situation with psychotherapy in Russia is still not easy. Officially psychotherapy is supposed to be a medical profession in our country, and officially psychologists are not allowed to practice as psychotherapists. There are two kinds of psychotherapy in Russia: official (state) psychotherapy and an unofficial one. Even though there are special courses for psychotherapy in state psychological and pedagogical universities, officially only medical doctors can call themselves ‘psychotherapists’. Psychologists only can call themselves ‘psychologists-consultants’ and work in the field of psychological consultation and psychological correction.

Two projects for a new Law about psychotherapy were created in 2001. One was made by the St. Petersburg School of Psychiatry and it was very strict and very much against psychologists. The other one was made by PPL, which is the Russian umbrella organization of EAP. It was more loyal. But everything got stuck and things weren’t moving. But still the interest in bodywork and body psychotherapy increases. It is more and more in demand. There are many different kinds of Centers where bodywork and body psychotherapy are offered. Under these conditions it is very important to keep high standards in our profession as well as to follow the Ethics Code. The main purpose of RABOP is to establish a professional community. We have seven new members and there are 49 members of RABOP. Of these, 15 are Full members of EABP and eight are Associates (one is not a RABOP member). We have two newcomers, both of whom work with children. News and activities 1) We celebrated the 10th Anniversary of RABOP on July 1st 2009! The Research-to-Practice Conference, Languages of the Body, devoted to the 10th Anniversary of RABOP, took place in the Moscow area in October 2009. We invited body psychotherapists from all the different schools and psychotherapists of other modalities to share their experiences and findings. 2) We had two General Meetings dedicated to looking at where we are at, and some reorganization of the Association. One very important decision was to change the form of the organization in the direction of more democracy. Originally we had the President and the Board, both which were elected by the General Meeting. Now more power is given to the Board, which runs the Association between General Meetings. The position of the President is eliminated after our first (and only) President Vladimir Baskakov resigned. Board members will elect the Board Chairperson with the possibility of rotating the position. Because this reorganization requires a revision of the Statutes and Regulations of RABOP, the General Meeting entrusted the Board with rewriting and preparing the documents for re-registration. 3) The Research-to-Practice Conference of the Institute of Thanatotherapy Crisis as a way to Success, took place in Moscow in November, 2009. The main idea of the conference was firstly to show that crisis is a complicated period of transition during which there is a real chance to put aside old stereotypes and give birth to new abilities and capacities; secondly to show that the body plays the greatest role in this positive process of transition. 4) The Conference and Festival organized by the Human Corporality* Institute, Body spirituality (Corporality): a miracle creation took place in Moscow in August. The word “corporality” comes from Old English. The main subject was the mutual and unbreakable connection of the body and spiritual nature of human beings. Body psychotherapists of different approaches participated.

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mmer 2010 summer 2010 summer 2010 summer 20 5) The RABOP Educational Program is up and running. Our program is dedicated to body psychotherapy as a whole discipline, to its common ground, basic theoretical and practical principles, professional standards, Ethics etc. It also gives a review of different approaches. The interest in our Educational Program is growing. Several Russian cities, as well as some towns in Lithuania, the Western Ukraine and Bulgaria have requested the Program. 6) Our colleagues from the Eastern Ukraine are in the process of establishing The Eastern Ukrainian Association for Body Psychotherapy with the support of RABOP, on a common professional and ethical basis. 7) About 40 participants completed the second Bodynamic Foundation Training successfully in March 2009. The third Bodynamic Foundation Training and the first Practitioner Course will start in February. 8) A book of articles Body Psychotherapy. Bodynamics has been published.

However on the positive side he said that the Association was now in a position to pay for him to attend the COUNCIL Meeting, and that he had also managed to translate many of the EABP documents into Spanish. David Trotzig – EABP Representative Informe de APCCE La Asociación Española de Psicoterapia Corporal En la reunión del Consejo David Trotzig informó que la Asociación Española ahora tiene diez miembros, y que están trabajando duro para conseguir más miembros de las diferentes escuelas de psicoterapia corporal. Comentó que en general los españoles no tienen mucho interés en Europa y que el idioma era una barrera, ya que no se sienten afectados por documentos o actos que no pueden entender. Sin embargo en el lado positivo, dijo que la Asociación se encontraba ahora en condiciones de pagar sus viajes a las reuniones del Consejo que él también había logrado traducir muchos de los documentos EABP al español. David Trotzig – Representante de la EABP

9) About 25 participants will complete their training in the International Foundation Course for Biosynthesis in February. 10) Two very interesting seminars took place on Working with Birth Trauma with Lisbeth Marcher. 11) A very interesting program Energy work and Spirituality in Body Psychotherapy for so-called senior psychotherapists was started in January. 13) The RABOP website - www.rabop.ru – was severely damaged by a virus. Even though all the required documents were translated this summer, all activity was blocked. Galina Chentsova – Board Chairperson [email protected] Victoria Berezkina-Orlova – EABP Representative [email protected]

Report from APCCE - JAN. 2010 Spanish Association for Body Psychotherapy

At last the Spanish National Association APCCE is up and working At the COUNCIL Meeting, David Trotzig reported that the Spanish Association now has ten members and that they are working hard to get more members from the various different body psychotherapy schools. He commented that in general the Spanish did not have much interest in Europe and that language was a barrier, as they don’t feel concerned by documents or acts they can’t understand.

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Report from SABP Serbian Association for Body Psychotherapists Sladjana Djordjevic, Master of Psychology and dipl. Psychologist has finished her training in TePsyntesis and has become a member of SABP bringing the number of EABP members in Serbia to eight. TePsyntesis, the FORUM accredited Training Institute, has translated a lot of body psychotherapy materials and books into Serbian and other materials from the EABP website. Prof dr Ljiljana Klisic has recently been promoted to a regular professorship at the European University in Belgrade where she will be the Dean of a new faculty which is in the process of accreditation. She will be leading the Study program for Applied Psychology and is lecturing in Clinical Psychology, Psychotherapy, Psychological Counseling, Art Psychology and most importantly, Body Psychotherapy.

mmer 2010 summer 2010 summer 2010 summer 20 She is also lecturing in Body Psychotherapy at the Faculty of Medicine at the European University, as well as Clinical Psychology. This will be the first generation of medical doctors who are learning Body Psychotherapy! The SABP Association is very satisfied with this achievement. Prof dr Ljiljana Klisic is publishing two new books: 1. TEPSYNTESIS (Serbian school of Body-Psychotherapy) 2. Psychosomatic Unity of Art expression. The crisis in Serbia is still very present. A large part of the population has no jobs and salaries. This also still makes it difficult to survive financially in Serbia in the field of psychotherapy. There are fewer clients and fewer students. However the desire to continue and to train people still remains and we are doing our best in extremely hard conditions. Board Members: Prof dr Ljiljana Klisic Jelena Mutavdzic Vojnovic Ana Pekovic Ristovic Ljiljana Jovanovic Biljana Zubovic Social events

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we are in the same boat as all the other psychotherapists, which is comforting and helpful in these troubled times. As it happens, one of the current Vice Chairs of UKCP is a member of CABP (Tom Warnecke, who is also a member of EABP). He has also just been designated the UK’s representative to EAP. Another of our members stood for Chair of UKCP recently but did not get elected. Instead the current Chair of UKCP is Andrew Samuels, a well-known Jungian analyst who is proud to say that he has been a client in body psychotherapy and is very friendly towards us. So we can say that in Britain, body psychotherapy is pretty mainstream in the psychotherapy world! One of the developments that we can see on the horizon is that it may become compulsory for psychotherapy trainings to incorporate a Masters Degree. This is new; traditionally psychotherapy training has not been academic in the UK, but increasingly it now is. Some universities are happy to link to an existing training and offer students an MA degree if they are satisfied that the quality of the training and the standard of student work is good enough for them. For students this can mean that little changes from the present curriculum: they will be required to hand in some more written work, and it may be assessed a bit more strictly, but it looks like this is a viable option for some training courses. What looks much more difficult these days is to establish a new training, and therefore the loss of the Chiron training is likely to hit the profession hard. So we are hoping that this will change again.

Chiron Association for Body Psychotherapists - UK CABP has gone through a turbulent year. The largest training institute in the UK (and our ‘parent’ school), the Chiron Centre for Body Psychotherapy, is about to close down and has transferred its membership of the professional umbrella body, the UK Council for Psychotherapy, to CABP. So we have had to develop all the accreditation and registration procedures that are necessary in order to fulfil this role, along with all the administrative procedures connected with our new EABP membership. We are happy to say that we have just about got there and are now functioning more or less the way we should. CABP has currently about 140 members, of which 9 are also members of EABP. As anyone in Europe who has dealings with Britain will know, the people here are still very insular, and most colleagues are not really motivated to join EABP. We will work towards changing this but are not hoping for quick results. There are also still a number of EABP members living and working in the UK who are not members of CABP. We have invited them to join our association but the uptake has been minimal. Britain is in the process of introducing state regulation of psychotherapy, which has not so far existed. The process is messy, slow, stressful, and to date rather uncertain as to what is going to be regulated, how and when. It is clear that psychotherapists who are working now will be automatically included in any new register; in that sense we don’t have very much to fear. What is perhaps rather unique in Britain is that body psychotherapy has always had close links to other psychotherapeutic modalities, through the umbrella body of UKCP and its Humanistic and Integrative Section. Both are strong bodies that are fighting our corner very actively. They are also continuously reminding us that

Kathrin Stauffer – Chairperson

Report from NOKTA - JAN. 2010 Kosova Body Psychotherapy Association (The Kosova Association is an organizational member of the EABP. Enver Cesko attends the COUNCIL Meetings with the support of the COUNCIL with the aim of becoming a National Association in the future.) The Kosova Body Psychotherapy Association - NOKTA – started its first training in 2007 and has continued to get help to develop the curriculum from experienced trainers Christina Bader Johansson from Switzerland and Sibylle Huerta Kraft from Germany, as well as Enver Cesko from Kosovo. The CH-EABP and EABP have contributed financially to the travel costs of the trainers. The current situation in NOKTA 1. The training started in 2007 with 15 students. Enver Cesko taught seven training modules. Three international trainers, Christina Bader Johansson, Ingeborg Joachim and Sibylle Huerta Krefft also participated. 2. Since 2007 we have organized 12 seminars in which 25 students have participated in the different modules. All the students are psychologists or technicians in physiotherapy. Eighteen have received the diploma from the basic course in body psychotherapy. 3. In 2010 the Association will continue with four training seminars - three with international trainers. Also we are planning to attend the EABP Congress in Vienna in October 2010. NOKTA would like to give thanks for the understanding and willing support it has received. Enver Cesko – Representative to EABP EABP NEWSLETTER - page 29

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EUROPEAN ASSOCIATION OF PSYCHOTHERAPY (EAP) Psychotherapy: An independent profession – a European challenge

by Serge Ginger

This Colloquium on the Status of Psychotherapy in Europe was presented at the EAP, European Association for Psychotherapy Congress in Vienna, February 18th, 2010 in which there were 120 participants from 33 countries. We reproduce this here with the kind permission of Serge Ginger, the Registrar of the EAP. Autonomy of Psychotherapy: Strasbourg Declaration

4. A full psychotherapeutic training covers theory, self-experience, and practice under supervision. Adequate knowledge of various psychotherapeutic processes is acquired. 5. Access to training is through various preliminary qualifications, in particular in human and social sciences.

The day usually arrives when children leave home in order to acquire their autonomy. They normally move to a different location. This is also what happens with certain social groups. Thus — in most countries — Psychology has progressively detached itself from its “mother”, Philosophy. In France, for example, this happened in the 1950’s. At the same time, a special department was created in French universities for the “Social or Human Sciences”; so it was no longer taught in the school of Arts. Today there exist about 45 000 books on the subject of Psychology, published throughout the world1… and Psychology is no longer considered to be just a simple branch of Philosophy.

Strasbourg, October 21st, 1990

The European Certificate of Psychotherapy (ECP) Concretely, this fundamental step led to the establishment of the European Certificate of Psychotherapy (ECP) and a European Register for certified Psychotherapists (ERP), largely inspired by the existing Austrian law concerning Psychotherapy.

In the same way, in our country, after the ideological revolution of 1968, Psychiatry separated from Neurology, and thus created a place for non-organic mental disorders. Then, in 1990, it was the turn of Psychotherapy. It took its flight, differentiating itself from Psychology and Psychiatry. It did this through the “Strasbourg Declaration” — which gave birth to the European Association for Psychotherapy (EAP). This manifesto, signed on October 1990 by the representatives of 14 countries — and since signed by all 40 National Awarding Organizations — remains the cornerstone of the EAP. It states:

countries in Europe, and are validated today by representatives from 40 countries. • In the first instance, a “grandparenting procedure” was applied for psychotherapists who had been practicing for at least 3 years, and who were recognized by a National commission of colleagues from their country. Each individual candidate for the ECP is successively examined by 3 different National and European bodies: 1. The National Awarding Organization (NAO), a national federation of psycho¬therapists, formed by qualified professionals practicing diverse modalities; 2. The appropriate European-Wide Accrediting Organization (EWAO), the official European Association that represents the specific modality practiced. These European modality associations must be officially recognized as being based on scientific research, the object of publications in several professional journals, and need to be taught in at least six European countries. 3. The Registration Committee of the EAP — which I have chaired since 2001 – and which regulates the whole procedure.

The ECP was established 13 years ago, in 1997, during a European Congress in Rome. It specifies the conditions for training: 3,200 hours over a minimum of 7 years, including a prior university-level degree of 3 years in the social sciences or equivalent, followed by an in-depth training in a scientifically validated method, for a minimum of 4 years, including 2 years of supervised practice.

1. Psychotherapy is an independent scientific discipline, the practice of which represents an independent and free profession. 2. Training in psychotherapy takes place at an advanced, qualified and scientific level. 3. The multiplicity of psychotherapeutic methods is assured and guaranteed.

Today, around 6,000 ECPs have been awarded in 51 countries —within Europe and throughout the entire world (including people from Mexico, Lebanon, USA, Kazakhstan, Japan, etc.). Two thirds of these ECPs have been awarded to professionals in the following dozen countries (rounded numbers in numerical order):

The criteria for the attribution of the ECP were negotiated during many international meetings of experts (in Vienna, London, Rome, Paris, Amsterdam, Frankfurt, Moscow) by delegates elected from thirty

About 45 % on psychopathology or psychology of health; 10 % on neuroscience; 2 % on psychoanalysis

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Each person who has been awarded an ECP must have also accomplished personal work (individual or group psychotherapy, or the equivalent) of at least 250 hours, and commit to the Statement of Ethical Principles of the Association. • In a second stage, those who had attained a certificate from a school or institute, which had been officially recognized as an EAPTI (European Accredited Psychotherapy Training Institute) could apply directly. The EAP’s Training Accreditation Committee (TAC) awarded the recognition of such institutes after an in-depth study of their application, followed by a detailed on-site inspection by two independent international experts, and a vote in the EAP’s Governing Board. To date, - 52 psychotherapy training institutes, - teaching 14 different modalities, - in 20 European countries, have received such an EAPTI accreditation. The European Parliament is considering the main points of the ECP program for a “common platform” which is in the process of elaboration by the European Commission in Brussels. The WCP (World Council for Psychotherapy) has used the same model, to establish a Worldwide Certificate of Psychotherapy. Thus, the level of competence of professional psychotherapists has increased and become comparable from one country to another, corresponding at least to the level of a Master’s degree. Exchanges among different professionals therefore become much more possible.

European Legislation The legislation that governs psychotherapy varies greatly amongst the different countries of the European Union. Today, about ten countries — out of 27 — have established a specific law relating to

psychotherapy. Some of them (Germany, Italy, Sweden, Netherlands) have limited access to the profession to psychologists and medical doctors, whereas others (Austria, Finland, etc.) have opened their training to candidates from a variety of backgrounds — and even to young people who have just finished their secondary studies. Thus, instead of being only a “second career” or “adjunct” to another profession, psychotherapy is becoming, little by little, a specific profession of its own, like medical doctor, psychologist or lawyer. A European ruling that enforces this high level of specific training (different from the training of a clinical psychologist or psychiatrist) is becoming an urgent necessity at a time when the demand for psychotherapy continues to increase from year to year. Psychotherapy has developed rapidly within a hundred countries on all continents. It is diversified into a great number of practices — each one of which benefits from specific training institutions and specialized scientific journals. (For example, Gestalt Therapy is taught today in nearly 200 institutes, in around fifty different countries. There are more than 25 specialized journals and 6,000 Gestalt publications in various languages). Psychotherapy today is found at the crossroads between several disciplines: medical, psychological and social. It would therefore be unrealistic to restrict the training and practice to one or another specific profession, like medical doctor, psychologist, social worker, etc. To illustrate this, I will briefly describe three different situations: • 1st example: it is clear that a profound depression is accompanied by a neurological dysfunction and imbalance of neurotransmitters (serotonin, dopamine, etc.). A medical treatment is thus often necessary, paralleled by a psychotherapeutic approach; • 2nd example: sexual impotence with one’s usual partner, when the erectile activity remains normal with a young mistress, shows that the problem is not organic, but rather, psychological; • 3rd example: a social phobia, maintained by repeated racist attacks in a low-income neighbourhood, is an

example of a sociological problem, and not only medical or psychological. This would also apply to psychosocial problems induced by unemployment. Any reductionist approach to psychotherapy is thus destined to be inefficient or inadequate: and a bio-psychosocial model is appropriate.

The prevalence of psychic difficulties: Some statistics According to various international studies, the percentage of people suffering, at one time or another in their life, from psychosocial troubles that require external assistance, varies between 7 % and 15 % of the general population — thus for the 500 million residents of the European Union (EU), representing between 35 to 75 million people with psychosocial difficulties! We are therefore being confronted with an important social problem… coming at a time when depression has been called “the sickness of the century” (Frankl, 1997). But few of these people with problems will seek help from psychotherapy — whether for cultural or economic reasons. In some countries, seeking help seems to be reserved for very serious cases of mental illness; in others, the limitations are due to the high cost of treatment, as well as the drastic lack of specialists. We have recently conducted two large national surveys in France with independent organizations2, which have indicated that 8 % of the adult population have undertaken — or are still in the process of — psychotherapy (or psychoanalysis). The main motivations were depression, anxiety, a psychological trauma, family or social conflicts. In rounded-off numbers: - 40 % were engaged in a Humanistic Psychotherapy: Gestalt Therapy, Transactional Analysis, PersonCentered Approach, PsychoOrganic Analysis, Psychosynthesis, Psychodrama, etc. - 30 % in a Psychodynamic therapy (inspired by Psychoanalysis); - 20 % in a Cognitive-Behavioural therapy (CBT); - 10 % in a Family therapy. These psychotherapies lasted on average one year, at a frequency of one 50-minute session per week; 87 % of the clients said they were “satisfied” or “very satisfied”, and only 4 % “unsatisfied”. (9 % did not respond). EABP NEWSLETTER - page 31

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mmer 2010 summer 2010 summer 2010 summer 20 global approach is necessary, to integrate the personal psychological problems with social adaptation to a changing and often stressful milieu, with spiritual questioning about the meaning of existence itself. In other words, we must consider the interrelationship between the five main dimensions of the human being: physical, emotional, intellectual, social and spiritual5.

The need for Psychotherapy is steadily increasing In fact, the offer of, as well as the demand for psychotherapy is on the rise in all developed countries. Why is there a need for so many consultations – preventative or curative? A good number of hypotheses have been suggested, it appears, in any case, that the causes are not only individual (thus “medical”), but even more so, sociological and cultural. In addition to the traditional needs of psychological help for sick, upset or lonely individuals, numerous problems have been recently identified that are linked to the severe crisis of the “post-industrial” society: - the drawing on the right is the Chinese version of the word “crisis” - which has two parts (wei-ji): “danger” and “opportunity” - with a positive connotation • economic crisis and technological changes, within the context of a global economy, migration of populations, unemployment and exclusion, poverty, and solitude… But also, the need for support for managers, under stress due to competition and the accelerated evolution of technology (thus the development of counselling, coaching and techniques for stress management); • sociological crisis and rapid evolution of lifestyles, with its context of travel, trans-cultural shocks, racism, identity crises, together with an increase in poor housing developments and lower class suburbs, and conflict between generations;

• informational crisis, with the permanent eruption of the media into our private lives: internet, television and its daily menu of ecological catastrophes, pollution, political and financial scandals, moral issues — a day-to-day disruption of everyone’s serenity — caught up into an insane “zapping”, alternating between murders, explosions, rapes and torture. (Summary of an ordinary week on the six basic television channels in France: 670 murders, 420 gun battles, 15 rapes, 27 scenes of torture, 850 fights, 9 suicides, 13 strangulation, 18 drug scenes…) And in parallel: love songs and embraces, gorgeous starlets and sunny dreams. (The rapid alteration of this type of behavior — extreme and uncoordinated — is characteristic of a borderline personality). • political crisis, with the slow and delicate construction of Europe: ideological conflicts, displaced populations or refugees, linguistic conflicts, insecurity, violence, terrorist attacks, genocides… Thus, society is becoming more and more complex and “depersonalised”. With the global economy, we no longer know who decides what; we have neither guide nor identified enemy; we often feel lost and impotent. This socio-cultural context may explain — in part — the growing role of psycho¬therapy in our contemporary society. In fact, anxiety is the corollary of progress, according to the universal law of “hypertelia”3 . Technology produces garbage: not only visible waste — often toxic — but also collateral damage, both psychological and social4. Medical progress and the development of physical cures are not sufficient to assure man’s equilibrium: a

Three Professions relating to Psychosocial Help To face these problems, three main professions have developed in parallel – which the public often confuses: Psychology, Psychiatry and Psychotherapy (not to mention various counsellors: religious, social or technical, and others, such as life coaches). 1) Psychologists hold an official university diploma (after 5 to 7 years of studies and various fieldwork). They have a good level of competence on a theoretical level. They can conduct tests, expert assessments, and often coordinate work meetings within institutions. There are several specialities: however, even the Clinical Psychologists — who have been trained in psychopathology — have still not been trained much in psychotherapy within the universities. The European Federation of Professional Psychologists (EFPPA) requires that psychologists — after their diplomas — continue to take 3 more years of a specific complementary training, 2 years minimum of supervised practice, and personal psychotherapy. So one finds here a complementary and optional psychotherapy training. 2) Psychiatrists are medical doctors specializing in mental illnesses and psychic disturbances. They have completed many years of studies (usually about 10) and internships in psychiatric hospitals. As medical doctors, they are allowed to prescribe psychotropic drugs: tranquilizers, antidepressants, antipsychotics… Such drugs are absolutely necessary in severe cases (such as depression with risk of suicide,

Surveys initiated by S. Ginger, in 2001 and 2006, in the name of the FF2P, with the help of the magazine “Psychologies” and national survey institutions: BVA and CSA. 3 Hypertelia: from hyper, extreme, and telos, goal = going beyond the prescribed goal. A classic example is the excessive development of the defenses of the mammoth: their tusks curved back inwards, finally perforating their jaws. 4 For example, the increased use of telephone answering machines has the perverse effect of creating the non-response to calls, by filtering. The « magic » communication of internet has produced an avalanche of parasite information (SPAMS). 5 Cf. The Ginger’s Pentagram, in Gestalt Therapy, The Art of Contact, Karnac Books, London, 2006 2

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mmer 2010 summer 2010 summer 2010 summer 20 hallucinations, delirium, etc.). In less severe cases, the drugs may be combined with a psychotherapy treatment, and can thus render it more efficient. Besides drugs, psychiatrists may possibly conduct a few interviews with the patient — more or less long, and more or less regular. However, it must be noted that all psychiatrists are not necessarily psychotherapists: that is a complementary specialization, generally not taught in the public universities, but acquired afterwards by certain psychiatrists from private institutions. The Italian law, for example, demands 4 years of additional studies — that is 2,000 hours — for a psychiatrist (or for a psychologist) before they may use the title of “Psychotherapist.” 3) Psychotherapists have themselves first undergone psychoanalysis or psychotherapy; then they have been trained, in specialized institutes, in one of the specifically recognized modalities of psychotherapy. Psychotherapy students are often recruited after a selection process – which focuses not only on the level of education achieved (basically, 3 years of first degree university studies), but especially on the equilibrium and maturity of their personality. The training is theoretical, methodological, and practical: • theoretical: studies in psychology, psychopathology, anthropology, philosophy, law, ethics, etc.; • methodological: principles and techniques of interventions, process, goals and closure, specific to each method; • practical: concrete training to lead individual or group sessions, and supervision. Psychotherapists are therefore not necessarily medical doctors or psychologists. In many countries, more than half come from other professions: social workers, special educators, nurses, physical therapists, teachers, sociologists, philosophers, priests or ministers, etc. They have all undergone personal psychotherapy, a long, specific, theoretical and practical training in psychotherapy, and are committed to ongoing supervision of their work, throughout their career (Continuous Professional Development – CPD, as well as to follow a Code of professional Ethics, and increasingly, to belong to a professional association. The

EAP requires an average of 250 hours of ongoing training every five years: classes, supervision, colloquiums, publications, and involvement in professional organizations.

Many Modalities, grouped into 4 to 6 Mainstreams Some people criticize the abundance of methods of the different psychotherapies. There are at least 365 — which would allow one to change methods each day of the year! But after all, this also represents a wealth and freedom of choice. Do we complain about the great variety of medicines (drugs), fruits, cheeses or wines? In truth, we may name hardly 20 or so psychotherapies that are commonly practiced in Europe, and which are represented by a recognized professional European association (EWAO). The others are mostly variants of those. In addition, these twenty methods may be grouped into 4 to 6 mainstreams: 1. Psychodynamic (10 to 30 %) 2. CBT (10 to 30 %) 3. Family Therapy (10 to 15 %) 4. Humanistic (20 to 40 %) 5. Transpersonal ( 5 to 10 %) 6. Integrative (10 to 20 %) 1 Psychodynamic Therapies, inspired by Psychoanalysis (Freud, Lacan, Jung, Adler, Melanie Klein, etc). In psychoanalysis, the treatment is founded on free association, the importance of the unconscious and especially sexual drives, the determining effect of childhood experiences and transference. The psychoanalysis often last many years (3 to 15), at a rhythm of several sessions per week, and they aim for a possible restructuring of the whole personality. Psychodynamic psychotherapy is more or less common, representing between 10 to 30 % of psychotherapies, depending on the country. 2 Cognitive-Behavioural Therapies (CBTs) aim to de-condition the patients from certain mental blocks, phobias or depressing thoughts, to change dysfunctional patterns of behaviour, and to go beyond their obsessions or post-traumatic problems. These therapies are generally short-term (10 to 20 sessions within a few months) and centred especially on the healing of symptoms. The various forms of CBT today represent, depending on the country, between 10 to 30 % of all psychotherapies.

3 • Systemic Family Therapies: here there is no longer a “designated patient” who analyses his or her problems, but the whole family at the same time. These therapists help to clarify the present relationship and the communication system within the family, considered in its totality. One variation on this is couple’s therapy. These therapies are generally brief (several months, with one session per month — often co-led by two therapists). Their incidence is estimated to be around 10 to 15 %. 4 • Humanistic or Existential Therapies — such as Gestalt Therapy (GT), Transac¬tional Analysis (TA), Ericksonian Hypnosis, and various Client-centred (or Person-centred) methods (PCA), Psychodrama, Psychosynthesis — as well as Body Psychotherapies. The Humanistic Therapies are not limited to a verbal exchange, but also take into consideration the body, the past history and the environment, often focusing on the expression of emotions, and looking at the behaviour, relationships and feelings of the client, as well as his or her relationship to the therapist. These Humanistic Therapies aim for a creative adjustment of the entire personality to the current conditions of life — integrating, of course, the client’s personal history and his projects for the future. They are usually of a medium range (from 1 to 3 years, at a rhythm of one session per week) and take place either in individual or small group sessions. They represent today a total of about 40 % of all psychotherapies. 5 • There is also a category of Transpersonal methods (holotropic breathing, oriental approaches, enneagram, art therapies, etc.) which emphasize the spiritual and energy dimensions; one may also place here the Trans-generational methods (total of 5 to 10 %, depending on the country.) 6 • Finally, Eclectic or Integrative Methods combine together techniques from the different branches listed above, or attempt to synthesize their theories and practice (10 % to 20 % of psychotherapies). Not all countries recognise all of these methods, but most recognise the first four, and then the other two groups often fit themselves within the Humanistic category.

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mmer 2010 summer 2010 summer 2010 summer 20 The Law and the Need for Qualified Professionals The regulations for psychotherapy are quite different from one country to another. In some countries, they concern only the training and procedures for attaining the title of “Psychotherapist”; in others, they also involve the professional practice itself, and its definition. A law presently exists in 8 European countries [and several others are in the process of discussion]. In some countries, this profession implies a specific training that is open to a number of original professions. In other countries, training is only accessible to medical doctors and psychologists, and is added on to their basic university training. In no country in the world is it reserved only for medical doctors; and everywhere, psychotherapy is mainly taught in private schools or institutes. This is due mainly to the fact that a personal therapy and a selection based on the maturity of the personality would be difficult to set up in the public universities. It is estimated that approximately 150,000 qualified professional psychotherapists are presently in activity in Europe, but there is still an insufficient number of them in almost all the countries. In reality, the professional density of psychotherapists varies enormously from one country to another: from 65 to 85 (per 100,000 inhabitants) in Austria, Italy, Switzerland or Belgium; to 10 — even 5 or less — in several countries in Eastern Europe.

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Professional Density per 100,000 inhab.

Countries Austria Italy Switzerland Belgium Sweden Serbia Netherlands Germany Ireland Hungary Finland France United Kingdom Kosovo Denmark Portugal Malta Norway Spain Poland Latvia Slovakia Croatia Romania Russia Lithuania Macedonia (FYROM) Ukraine Totals

87 67 65 65 55 40 37 33 31 26 23 20 17 16 15 14 12 12 10 8 8 8 7 5 4 4 2 1 22

Estimated number of qualified Psychotherapists

7,000 40,000 5,000 7,000 5,000 3,000 6,000 28,000 1,200 2,600 1,200 13,000 10,000 300 800 1,500 50 600 4,500 3,000 180 430 300 1,200 5,000 120 40 330 147,350

Population in millions (rounded figures)

8 60 8 11 9 7 16 86 4 10 5 64 60 2 5 11 0,4 5 43 39 2 6 4 22 142 3 2 46 680

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Conclusions If we estimate that around 10 % of the population might need psychotherapy, and that a psychotherapist can care for around a hundred clients per year, on average (in therapy, short- or middle-term, individual or group), that would imply an optimal density of 100 qualified psychotherapists per 100,000 inhabitants (or 1 psychotherapist for 1,000 inhabitants) — which means, for the entire European Union, around 500,000 qualified psychotherapists — that is, about three times the estimated number today. If we consider that a psychotherapist will exercise his/her professional activity during approximately 30 to 35 years, this would imply a training each year of 3 new professionals per 100,000 inhabitants, thus representing, for the entire EU: approximately 15,000 psychotherapy students — trained in around 500 specialized training institutes of average size (20 to 40 students per class). This would seem to correspond to the estimated number of institutes of training currently in operation in Europe. It would be sufficient therefore for them to meet all the quality criteria defined by the TAC (Training Accreditation Committee) to be officially recognized as “EAPTIs.” These objectives are not unrealistic, and could be attained rather quickly, given a European directive that would prescribe uniform requirements for the recognition of this new profession — which is much more than a simple specialization of neighbouring professions. And isn’t that the reason we are united together, here in this Colloquium today? Serge Ginger [email protected] Serge Ginger Clinical psychologist; Psychotherapist, trained in Psychoanalysis, Gestalt and EMDR Founder of the Paris School of Gestalt (École Parisienne de Gestalt, or EPG) and of the International Federation of Gestalt Training Organizations (Fédération Internationale des Organismes de Formation à la Gestalt, or FORGE). Professor of Neurosciences at the Sigmund Freud University (Paris) Secretary General of the Fédération Française de Psychothérapie et Psychanalyse (FF2P). President of the Training Accreditation Committee (TAC) for Training Institutes in Psychotherapy, of the European Association for Psychotherapy (EAP).

• ELKAÏM Mony & al. (2003). A quel psy se vouer ? Les principales approches. Le Seuil, Paris, 460 pages. • GINGER Serge (2001). L’évolution de la psychothérapie en Europe de l’Ouest, Conférence au Xe Congrès de l’EAP à Moscou, juillet 2001. • GINGER Serge (2003). The Evolution of Psychotherapy in Western Europe Moscow, in International Journal of Psychotherapy (IJP), vol. 8, Nr 2, July 2003; p. 129-139. • GINGER Serge (2006). Psychothérapie : 100 réponses pour en finir avec les idées reçues, Dunod, Paris, 290 p. • GINGER Serge (2006). The Evolution of Psychotherapy in Europe, Tokyo, in International Journal of Psychotherapy (IJP), vol.11, Nr 2, July 2007; p. 61-71. • GINGER Serge (2009). The Evolution of Psychotherapy in Europe, Pékin, oct. 2008, in World Journal of Psychotherapy (WJP), vol.2, Nr 1, March 2009; p. 126-132 • KOCHER G. & OGGIER W. (2004). Système de santé en Suisse, Hans Huber, Berne, p. 263-276. • PRITZ Alfred & al. (2002). Globalized Psychotherapy, Facultas Universitätsverlag, Vienna, 852 pages. • WebSite EAP : www/europsyche.org • ZERBETTO Riccardo, TANTAM Digby (2001): Survey of European Psychotherapy Training, in European Journal of Psychotherapy, Counselling & Health, Vol. 4, Nr 3, Dec. 01, p. 397-405

THE EAP As seen by a newcomer By Thomas Riepenhausen EABP Representative to the EAP Having recently been appointed by the EABP Board as our second delegate to the European Association of Psychotherapy (EAP) alongside our EAP veteran Sean Doherty, I started this new career at EAP’s Lisbon Congress and meeting in July 2009. I came to the meeting with contradictory expectations. On the one hand I was interested in learning to know that institution personally, as I had acquainted myself, in the EABP Training Standards Committee and in the Forum, with the basic documents of EAP. I have been in agreement with EABP and EAP politics in the last fifteen years on these issues, mainly the option for the European Certificate of Psychotherapy (ECP). The other expectation was regarding EAP itself as a ‘political’ place, a market of lobbying and interests, with some money around. It was all true. Indeed, it is political (I like politics), there is a lot of money (2008: income €356,000; - expenses €222,000 = balance €134,000); there are interests - to become recognized, to get one’s view on training accepted, etc. And there are also some people more equal than others: ex-officio members are candidates for the same function without the Board looking for other candidates. Adrian Rhodes (Britain) was elected as a new vice-president, what means that in two years he will be the president – he is now ‘president elect’.

The actual president is Roberto de Benart (Italy), outgoing Vice-President Mony Elkaim. The Board discussed a template for future national laws on Psychotherapy. This is a model – so we were told – that national EAP associations can utilize to elaborate a proposal for a law on psychotherapy for their national governments and parliaments. Fine. But that template considers a university framework for psychotherapy training – quite a new situation, unimaginable ten years ago, as Alfred Pritz explained to us, and which represents great progress in terms of the acceptance of our profession as a scientific one. And indeed, after his Sigmund Freud University in Vienna, there are quite a lot of other initiatives, in the field of BodyPsychotherapy, too (see Courtenay Young’s article, EABP Newsletter, Summer 2009, p. 19-21). But this situation is still quite rare. And the associations which are the backbone of EAP (and pay for it) are living in quite another reality. The training is mostly done by private institutions, part-time, over four years after a first academic degree - just as stipulated in the ECP document. Adrian Rhodes proposed an amendment to the template, which was accepted unanimously (the advantage of negotiating), so that it is now guaranteed that the outcome level EABP NEWSLETTER - page 35

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mmer 2010 summer 2010 summer 2010 summer 20 of any training is not below the ECP level, mainly in terms of practical training. (In a few eastern European countries, training takes place in universities and starts sometimes only after a Masters degree; quite a different situation which brings with it another perspective, and even some suspicion towards other frameworks.) A few people however, like myself, still felt uneasy at the prospect of young people starting training at 18 and becoming psychotherapists at 23, possibly still living in their parents’ home. How can they carry case loads specific to our profession? What about maturity and life experience? Isn’t the Austrian law on psychotherapy wise at least on this point, when it asks for a minimum age of 28 for our profession (roughly the first return of Saturn)? Another important issue was the presentation of a proposal to define our profession in terms of competencies. This is the way the European Commission is shaping professions nowadays, and it makes more sense to me. Courtenay Young, one of the members of the proposing committee, hopes that, with a clear definition of the respective competencies, it will finally be possible to establish our profession in relationship to the other professions (like psychologists and psychiatrists). EAP at a second glance After the last EAP Board meeting (July 2009, Lisbon), the Swiss National Umbrella Organization (NUO) had the same uncomfortable feelings about the (re) election of some officers of the EAP as I had (see above). They proposed a motion to look for new people, remembering that the mandate of the General Secretary, Alfred Pritz, could not be prorogated after 2011, as the statutes put a 10 years limit on this job. I was quite surprised, indeed, that in the weeks before the next meeting, I got a dozen of e-mails about this issue (normally, Board members are relatively quiet!), mostly following the suggestion of one honorable member of the Board to read again Freud’s Totem and Taboo. Others, like myself, didn’t see any lack of respect, let alone aggression, in that motion. The vehemence with which some declared Alfred as impossible to replace, however, seemed strange to me. At the meeting in October 2009, in the beautiful town of Graz (Austria), we found

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ourselves speaking about democracy, which came out as another vicious issue. Is it democratic to respect statutes, or is that narrow and rigid, as statutes should be adapted to the ever-changing situations of an organization? Does it make sense to have a time restriction for certain functions, or should we believe in the wisdom of the voters, and set them free? A bit late, to be honest, I finally understood that this is a familiar situation in our beloved EABP. There are different concepts – I would not say about democracy, because this would be seen as an offence–but about organizational cultures and styles, roughly between Northern and Southern Europe, and insofar that this is not recognized, we are caught in yet one more dialogue of deafness. And the irony seems to be that in some cases – France, and surprisingly Austria – this north/south split goes through the country itself. (Editing this text for the EABP Newsletter, in March 2010, I cannot help drawing a parallel with the ClubMed/ German dispute about the Euro.) So we decided to institute a Commission, which shall bring proposals to our next meeting, clarify job descriptions and do some headhunting; and find a form whereby the knowledge, engagement and political flair of Alfred can remain at the service of EAP. The Board approved the project on defining professional competencies for our profession. This was proposed by the European Training Standards Committee (ETSC) and represents some hard work for three to five years, in which our professional associations will be asked to participatet, even if we need to outsource some of the more technical parts to specialists in the field of professional competencies. Another rule was introduced: ECP holders have to be members of a national organization, which will offer them ethical backing and will mean that the NAO can scrutinize the fulfillment of the criteria of Continuous Professional Development (CPD), approved in February 2009. EAP: Successor Planning During the days before the most recent meeting in Vienna (February 2010), we had an important symposium about the regulation of the profession of psychotherapy in Europe (see my article entitled Our Strategy, in this Newsletter). It was indeed very well conceived and organized by the General Secretary,

Alfred Pritz. The other main issues of the meeting were the human resources of the association, mainly relating to the function of the General Secretary. It is known that sending an issue to a committee often means its death, and so it was here. The committee was composed of some volunteers, the present and former presidents (Advisory Council). And it looks as if their issue was not so much successor planning, but finding a solution so that Alfred Pritz can continue as a significant personality in EAP. Consequently, they came to the conclusion that EAP needs a CEO, as other organizations have, namely the EAP NAO of the Netherlands and UKCP, but also our EABP-Swiss IKP. And they (correctly), said that Alfred was, de facto, already doing this work, although rather poorly paid for it. This was accepted after some discussion, by four abstentions; with the note, particular to our psychotherapy circles, that those who might disagree may have an unresolved father-issue, as one eminent member affirmed. I recognize that Alfred Pritz is a very clear strategic thinker, has great executive capacities, and it would be impossible to find somebody with all that: but this also has to be a team. And Alfred Pritz certainly deserves some sort of place, not only of respect, but of active intervention, because of his great vision and organizational creativity.

Our Strategy By Thomas Riepenhausen In February 2010, the EAP organized in Vienna, Austria a Conference on the political and legal status of psychotherapists from a professionals’ and clients’ protection point of view in the European Union. This was, in my understanding, a very well designed and executed initiative, and was a great success. Many EAP Board members , were present, who also attended the Board meeting in the following days, as well as representatives of the respective ministries of EU government. We heard reports on the legal situation in almost all European countries, or from representatives of the respective governments, or by therapist colleagues who reported on the situation in their countries. All the documents and presentations will be put on the EAP website.

mmer 2010 summer 2010 summer 2010 summer 20 Looking at the results, we can see that there are countries with regulation and others without (Denmark: “You just come and start to work”; Portugal, Spain, Czech Republic). Countries with regulation may restrict access to training to certain basic professions (psychologists, medical doctors: Germany, Italy, Sweden) or permit a large spectrum (Austria). In Austria, the German Heilpraktiker Psychotherapie does not free the person from the need for a first academic degree. They impose criteria for training (content, hours etc.) and for training institutes (205 in Italy!). The strangest case was, for me, Sweden, which understands psychotherapy to be a post-graduate training (as we do), “so it has to be academic”. They apply university criteria to private training institutes. They are unable to fulfill more than half of them. Malta is a beautiful case. They molded their rules on the Austrian/EAP ideas, but even there, as in all other countries, the ECP is not recognized as such. Poland, Ireland and Bulgaria are work along similar lines. One of the main presentations was by Juergen Tiedje, from the European Commission, responsible for ‘800 professions’ in the EU. For the first time, I (and many others) understood what it is all about. The EU has no role in the regulation of professions. This belongs to the 27 member states. However, as there is the idea of the common market and free movement of citizens (four pillars: free movement of products, services, money and citizens), a professional should be able to work in the same profession when he/ she moves to another member country. This is obviously no problem when the host country has no regulation. But when it has, the rules of this country apply, and this may be prejudicial for a citizen. As it was for Heinrich Lanthaler, an Italian citizen of German speaking South Tyrol, who went to Austria, became a social worker, did a psychotherapy training in the framework of the Austrian law. However, on returning to his home country, he had to fight some six years in court to be finally recognized, as in Italy only medical doctors and psychologists are allowed to enter the training as psychotherapists. (In Austria the person is accepted if he/she has done an appropriate training, even having a degree in a university course other than those accepted in Austria.) Through the efforts of the EU Commission, seven professions are now automatically recognized (called harmonization) all over

the EU, just like medical doctors, dentists and architects. But as this took up to 16 years to be agreed, the Commission is not fond of doing this work for any other profession – understandably, I say in my role of taxpayer. There is a second way, called the general system, which means mutual recognition case by case: a citizen who wants to move from one country to another has to ask for recognition in the host country, which has to take into account former training and professional activity, the legal standard being the one of the host country. Every country in the EU has created a contact point, and there is a user’s guide on the internet. These national contact points maintain an intensive exchange and seem to be quite helpful. (And a third way, called yearly declaration, when somebody wants to work on a nonpermanent base.) This is all about mobility, and only quite indirectly about recognition of a profession. And there is yet another way, called the Common Platform. It was introduced by the Directive 2005/36/EC (about mobility), and the idea is to facilitate the case-by-case recognition of the General System. In order for a Common Platform to be established, two-thirds of the countries need to have legalized the profession (for the moment, there are around ten), and then the countries, the EU Commission, and the interested parties meet in order to establish a minimum base. It has been the politics of the EAP to work towards the establishment of a Common Platform for Psychotherapy and to get the main ideas of the declaration of Strasbourg accepted. Juergen Tiedje, however, was not very fond of this: different professional associations tried to get regulation in this way. All desisted, and at the revision of the directive (in 2011, if I am not mistaken) the method of the Platform may not exist any longer. And there are, he said, very strong opponents to the basic ideas of EAP about our profession – as we know.

competencies intermesh, a professional changing their activity, getting a new qualification and the respective recognition. I think we have to make some balance after 20 years of work in the spirit of the Declaration of Strasbourg (see scheme). Besides the essential way of mutual recognition and fighting for official recognition, there are other tools we may need to use in order to get our understanding of psychotherapy established in society: the introduction of psychotherapy into Universities (Academization), the project on the specific competencies of psychotherapists, and negotiations with other professionals in our field (psychiatrists, psychologists) have been proposed. On another front, Bernhard Strauss from the German University of Jena, a prominent person in the field of Psychotherapy Research (see David Orlinsky, Univ. Chicago, European Journal of Psychotherapy and Counselling, vol. 11, no. 2, June 2009, 157-164), writes about modality recognition in Germany. For the moment, “two to four” modalities are recognized (including client-centered). A new modality will be accepted when there is scientific evidence that it helps in three types of disturbances. And this evidence is missing, for the great majority of the 24 EAP-modalities in the understanding of the German government. I think this should be an issue on its own. It may have been an error of mine: I never gave much importance to the question of the scientificity of psychotherapy, and see so many countries using this same criterion in order to achieve such different results (Sweden, Germany, Romania, Austria, Italy), to accept one modality and refuse another. Science can be so different from country to country, quite fascinating! Poor psychotherapy with its Europeanwide modalities, all evaluated by the same criteria!

Psychotherapy could become an “advanced specialization of different professions”, as in Romania; personally, I feel myself really in a different profession, and no longer a language teacher (adult education), as before. Our idea of psychotherapy indeed makes much sense in the way the European Union nowadays understands professional competency: as a lifelong learning process, where different

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OBITUARIES

Nachruf auf Andreas Wehowsky (20.1.1953 - 27.1.2010)

Der bekannte Körperpsychotherapeut Andreas Wehowsky ist nach einer schweren Krankheit leider vor kurzem verstorben. Andreas war Dip.Soz., niedergelassener Psychologischer Psychotherapeut und international tätiger Trainer, Lehrsupervisor und Lehrtherapeut. Von 1987-1998 hat er sehr eng mit David Boadella zusammengearbeitet und war jahrelang Mitherausgeber der Zeitschrift: „Energie und Charakter“. Als Ausbilder für Biosynthese und als Autor hat er viele eigene Beiträge zur Weiterentwicklung dieser Methode beigesteuert. Später hat er seine eigene Richtung, die er „Integrale Körperpsychotherapie“ nannte, entwickelt. Er war auch über den therapeutischen Bereich hinausgehend als Coach, Organisationsberater und Managementtrainer tätig. Andreas hat wichtige theoretische und praktische Beiträge zur Körperpsychotherapie geleistet, die sich exemplarisch im „Handbuch der Körperpsychotherapie“ niedergeschlagen haben. In den letzten Jahren hat er sich auch mit dem Einbezug von Neurofeedback in seine “Integrale Körperpsychotherapie” beschäftigt. Andreas war EABP- und DGK - Mitglied der ersten Stunden und hat sich mit Leib und Seele für die Körperpsychotherapie engagiert. Die DGK trauert um einen liebenswerten, aufrechten, respektvollen und außergewöhnlichen Menschen. Manfred Thielen – Vors. der DGK

Der DGK-Vorstand ist Bernhard Maul, einem alten Freund und Weggefährten von Andreas Wehowsky sehr dankbar, dass er einen ganz persönlichen Nachruf geschrieben hat. Lieber Andreas, Wahrscheinlich war ich einer Deiner ersten Klienten damals in Berlin, unten in Steglitz, vor mehr als 30 Jahren. Vier Jahre hast Du mit mir gekämpft, mit mir gelitten, mich getröstet, mir Hoffnungen gemacht und mich frustriert. Meistens, so glaube ich heute, optimal, wie es in unserer Fachsprache so trocken heißt. Das große Zimmer der Fabriketage ist mir noch seltsam lebendig: der etwas pinkig-weiße Anstrich, die großen Fenster hinten raus auf den nächsten rotbraunen Backsteinflügel, die beiden hochkant an die Wand gestellten, grün bezogenen Matten, an denen ich so manches Mal meinen Vater umgebracht habe, nur um ihn irgendwann mal lieben zu können. Und natürlich die hohen und breiten Türen zu den Nachbarräumen mit anderen nichtpsychologischen Menschenkindern, die unsere heftigen, oft

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deftigen Emotionen geduldig ertrugen, weil Du Dich mit ihnen irgendwie arrangiert hattest und die Zeit damals so war. Wie oft habe ich draußen im langen Gang mit hochklopfendem Herzen oder grauen Fledermäusen im Bauch gewartet, hin und her gerissen zwischen Widerstand und Zuversicht, Depression und Optimismus, zwischen Wut, Hader, Neid und Lebensfreude. Und dann, wenn ich wusste, jetzt muss „der Vorige“ bald fertig sein, schlich ich mich ans Ende des Ganges und starrte in den Winterschmutzigen Hof hinunter, um „den“ nicht sehen zu müssen. Denn alleine wollte ich Dich für mich haben, alleine. Und dann höre ich das leise „Hey!“, drehe mich misstrauisch um und sehe Deine einladend-verschmitzten Augen. Eine Stunde bei Dir kostete mich damals vier Stunden Taxifahren, nachts natürlich. Bei zwei Stunden die Woche war das eine ganze Schicht. Ich spüre noch, wie ich mir das manchmal ausrechnete, abwog und dann doch sagte: „Das lohnt sich.“ Und es hat sich wirklich gelohnt, denn Du hast mir unbezahlbar geholfen, mich für mich selbst und schließlich auch für andere Menschen zu öffnen. Was unentbehrlich in meinem privaten und unentbehrlich in meinem beruflichen Leben wurde. Ich beendete zwar noch mein Geschichts- und Philosophiestudium, war aber schon längst von der Psychologie gefangen und ging nicht mehr in den Journalismus zurück, aus dem ich kam. Und das ist ausschlaggebend Dein Verdienst. Neben der Einzeltherapie hast Du mich in Deine WochenendWorkshops gelotst, dann in die Langzeitgruppe einer befreundeten Therapeutin, wo ich Menschen kennengelernt habe, die mir heute noch, nach über einem Vierteljahrhundert, lieb und zentral wichtig sind. Und dann sagtest Du eines Tages in Deiner so sympathischen locker-leichten Direktheit: „Da ist noch ein Platz in einer Fortbildung frei. Bei Boadella, meinem Lehrer. Ich sage Dir: das lohnt sich.“ Und wieder lohnte es sich. Anfangs verstand ich zwar nichts, schließlich war es keine Aus-, sondern schon gleich eine Fortbildung in Biosynthese, ganz oben, im Pfad-Zentrum unterm Dach, aber es war auch eher die therapeutische Haltung der „Kollegen“, die ich dort in meine noch leeren therapeutischen Zellen aufsaugen durfte. Nach zwei Jahren begann ich dann doch noch ganz ordentlich die Grundausbildung. Aber im Grunde warst Du es, der mich für den Beruf des Körperpsychotherapeuten ausgebildet und herangebildet hat. Eben durch das: durch Deine ganz besondere, ganz einzigartige therapeutische Andreas-Wehowsky-Haltung. Es war Deine aufmerksame Ruhe, Deine präzis beobachtende Gelassenheit, Dein unermüdliches Engagement und Dein scharfer, aber niemals verletzender Geist, mit dem Du Dich immer und immer wieder meinen verzweifelten Widerstandsattacken und Abwehrkapriolen entgegengestellt hast. Hart, sehr hart war das manchmal, aber stets überzeugte mich letztlich Deine unbeirrte Sympathie für das Gesunde in mir. Und Deine spezielle Art und Weise mich therapeutisch zu begleiten, hielt sich schon damals, wie auch später nicht, an enge Schulgrenzen. Ich sehe gerade, wie Du mir eines Tages das I Ging gelegt und interpretiert hast. Skeptisch war ich zu jener Zeit und nicht so recht aufnahmefähig dafür. Es brauchte noch zwanzig Jahre, um zu erkennen, daß Deine Deutung des Münzorakels in die richtige Richtung wies. Dann trennten sich unsere Wege und berührten sich nach einigen Jahren wieder bei irgendeinem Workshop, wo Du fast nebenbei beim abendlichen Bier bemerktest, wir bräuchten eigentlich eine

mmer 2010 summer 2010 summer 2010 summer 20 regelmäßige, deutschsprachige Zeitschrift für unsere Art der Psychotherapie, eben der Körperpsychotherapie. Du hättest zwar jetzt die Redaktion der englischsprachigen Energy & Character übernommen, aber viele deutsche Abonnenten gäbe es nicht. Die englische Fachsprache sei den meisten einfach zu schwer. Und plötzlich: „Hättest Du nicht Lust, das Ganze in deutsch rauszubringen? Du warst doch mal Journalist. Das kannst Du doch!“ Ich: „Schon, aber mein Englisch ist jämmerlich bis miserabel.“ Du: „Unsinn. Du brauchst die Vokabeln ja nur in eine Richtung lernen. Das geht schnell.“ Dein projektlustiges Grinsen war überzeugend. Dann stimmte auch David zu und „Energie & Charakter“ war geboren. In zehn Jahren durfte ich 20 Ausgaben herausbringen und meinen theoriesüchtigen Kopf von den lieben Kollegen füttern lassen. Das alles hat mich tief geprägt. Lieber Andreas, Du hast mich tief geprägt und dafür danke ich Dir. Und es schmerzt mich jetzt umso mehr, Dir das nie gesagt zu haben. Es kam mir einfach nie in den Sinn und nie ins Gefühl, dass Du so früh gehen könntest. Lieber Andreas, ich nehme mit schmerzendem Herzen Abschied und fühle mich gleichzeitig getröstet, weil mir gerade Deine sanftschelmischen Augen entgegenlächeln. Bernhard Bernhard Maul, Freiburg im Breisgau

Dear Andreas, I was probably one of your first clients in Berlin, in downtown Steglitz, over 30 years ago. For four years you struggled with me, suffered with me, comforted me, gave me hope and frustrated me. Mostly, so I believe today, “optimally”, as we put it so dryly in our terminology. The large room where you had your practice still lives in my memory: the pinkish-white wall paint, the high windows looking out at that reddish brown brick wall at the back of the building, the two green mattresses on which I killed my father so many times, only to be able to love him eventually. And of course the broad doors to the neighbouring rooms with all those non-psychological human beings, who endured, uncomplainingly, my often fierce emotions, because you had your special arrangements with them and because back then, that’s how it was. How often did I wait outside in that long corridor with a pounding heart or butterflies in my stomach, torn between resistance and confidence, depression and optimism, anger and forgiveness, envy and lust for life. And then, when I knew that the client before me would soon come out, I sneaked to the very end of the corridor, stared down at the winter-dirty backyard, so as not to see “him“ or “her”. Because I wanted you just for me! But then I would hear a gentle “Hey!”, turn around suspiciously, and see your inviting, whimsically smiling eyes. One hour with you cost me four hours cab driving at night. For two hours per week, I had to work a whole shift. I still feel, how I calculated that in my mind, especially while going through a red light and being flashed, clenching my teeth, pondering about it and saying to myself over and over again, “It´s worth it, of course it is.“ And it really was worth it! Because you helped me far beyond what money can buy: to open myself to myself und finally to others. All that became essential in my private and in my professional life. I completed my studies in history and philosophy, but was already hooked by

psychology and didn´t go back to the journalism I came from. And that was primarily because of you. Besides single therapy sessions you also offered weekend workshops, which led me into the long-term group of a female therapist friend. I made friends there who are still, after more than a quarter of a century, important and central for me. And then, one day, you said with your typically attractive, easy-going directness, “There is a space available in an advanced training with my teacher Boadella. I’m telling you, it´s worth it.” And again, it was worth it. In the beginning I didn´t actually understand much. After all, it wasn´t just a workshop, but an advanced training in Biosynthesis, high above Berlin in the Path Centre under the roof. And indeed, it was above all the therapeutic attitude of the ‘colleagues’, which I had the privilege to absorb and take into my still empty therapeutic cells. After those two years I finally began basic training, in a proper way. But fundamentally it was you who trained and cultivated me for the profession of body psychotherapist. Exactly because of that special and inimitable Andreas-Wehowsky-attitude. It was your alert calmness, your precise monitoring composure, your tireless participation and your acute but never hurtful spirit, with which you faced my desperate attacks and resistance, time and time again. It was hard, very hard at times, but your determined sympathy and positive regard kept me going and finally convinced me of my inner wholeness. And your special way to accompany me therapeutically was never confined by the narrow guidelines of a single school. I can still see in my mind’s eye how you laid out the I Ching for me and interpreted it. I was sceptical in those days and not very receptive for such things. It took me 20 years to acknowledge the fact that your analysis of the oracle of coins pointed in the right direction. Then our ways parted and came back together a few years later again at a workshop, where you said quite casually, while drinking a beer together in the evening, that we really needed a regular, German journal for our kind of psychotherapy, meaning: a German journal of body psychotherapy. You were running the editorial office of the English-language Energy & Character, but there weren’t many German subscribers, because the English professional terminology was too difficult for most of them. Suddenly you said, “Why don´t you do it in German? You once worked as a journalist. You could do that.” Me: “Yes, I could, but my English is miserable.” You: “Nonsense. You just have to learn the vocabulary in one direction. That´s easy.” Your eager smile convinced me. And then David gave his OK and the German Energie & Charakter was born. Within ten years I was able to publish 20 editions, which also allowed my theory-hungry mind to be fed by dear colleagues. All this impressed and shaped me deeply. Dear Andreas, you impressed and shaped me deeply, and for that I thank you. And what hurts the most is that I never told you so. It simply never crossed my mind and the feeling never arose that you could go so soon. Dear Andreas, I say good-bye with an aching heart and at the same time I feel consoled, because right now your gentle-elfish eyes are smiling at me. Bernhard Bernhard Maul, Freiburg i.Br., Germany

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mmer 2010 summer 2010 summer 2010 summer 20 OBITUARY ANDREAS WEHOWSKY Andreas Wehowsky died in January 2010, succumbing to an aggressive tumor. He was an important member of EABP, even though he may never have belonged to a body of the association. I knew Andreas in the midst of the 1990’s during my training in Biosynthesis, where he was presented to the group as the “number two” of that Institute. He had been in contact with David Boadella, the founder and director of Biosynthesis, since the beginning of the 1980’s. Indeed, David’s empathic approach to body psychotherapy was more appropriate for him than his former training with John Pierrakos. He had great knowledge and a great capacity to use it therapeutically with clients and trainees. He spoke openly on what he thought and felt – however, as a quite typical German of the very North, he was not given to intimacies, and when I asked for personal information, he answered classically “Why do you want to know this?” So I was quite shocked when, in 1998, David Boadella accused him of unethical behaviour, ‘excluding’ him from the Institute. At that time, I had an equidistant relationship to both of them, with the distance and respect appropriate to one among many trainees. As Andreas had also a very strong personal relationship with David, this exclusion and the circumstances surrounding it were very traumatic for him – on the professional as well on the financial level, as his main work was training and supervision in Biosynthesis, and writing many texts (unpaid) for Energy and Character, the English language version of which he edited. As I myself disagreed with some procedures in my training group, I was worried and wanted to know how this organization handled dissidence. So I innocently wrote to both of them. Andreas said the issue was about his demand to give Biosynthesis training in Northern Germany on his own, in order to get a more reliable income. David’s letters didn’t satisfy me, so I wrote four times altogether, always getting quite vague answers. The accusation of unethical behaviour was dealt with in the Biosynthesis Ethical Committee, which arrived at the conclusion that it was not justified. The exclusion, however, remained. The issue got the honour of theoretical debate between these two eminent thinkers: David accused Andreas (without naming him) of paranoid narcissism - a horrible character trait where even mediation cannot be granted, we learnt in Energy and Character (1999, no. 19, German edition, p. 7-46) -, whereas Andreas dissected different levels of unethical behaviour in David: Diagnosis as care – diagnosis as politic (International Journal of Psychotherapy, vol. 5, issue 3, 2000, p. 241-255). Fortunately, courts don’t go by ’character traits’, and so Andreas was able to put a limit to insult. From that time on, Andreas concentrated on work with clients in the Northwestern corner of Germany where he lived, occasional training courses in the Czech Republic and Russia, and the building of a full training in Integral Body-Psychotherapy with me, in Portugal (Asas e Raízes). Andreas was a fan of Ken Wilber and his extraordinary (‘unmatched’) theories of “all”, which enabled us to distinguish quadrants, levels, states, axes and styles of consciousness. He merged it with Julius Kuhl’s theories on motivation and personality, and with recent discoveries in the neurosciences. In his Competencies Compass for Self-Navigation he established the model for this approach to body psychotherapy, specifying appropriate strategies and interventions for different moments in the client’s life. Left and

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right brain, experiential and behavioral, more affective and more rational aspects, self and planning/executing are seen in an overall perspective. Asked what I got from him, besides theoretic elaboration and a very reliable relationship as Institute owners, it’s easy to say: a high sensitivity for ethics, which seems exaggerated to some. This includes a clear contract with the clients, who have to assume responsibility for their demands. Just as in life. In 1999, Andreas gave a workshop in Porto, where he had great difficulty getting in touch with the group. He asked the participants what they wanted from him, what were the issues they brought there. Nobody gave an answer that satisfied him. People were not conscious, responsible, about what they wanted, or (almost the same) were already used to starting with some energetic/body exercise, so ‘something will come up’, and the therapist would work with that. But this was not Andreas’ way. He just didn’t work! Everyone felt frustrated, he included. The next day, at my suggestion, Andreas asked the group what they wanted him not to do. He finally got an answer from everybody … this was at the end of the two days! This means mainly that when there is a conflict between the therapist/trainer and the client/trainee, it is easy for an experienced professional to relate the client’s behavior to their life story. Behind the protective shield of ‘transference’ analysis, the therapist is out of view and cannot be questioned. Quite comfortable! Andreas did it just the other way round. First comes the real relationship between two people, respect for differences of opinion, the needs, interests and rights of each. And only then – when both agree – possible hidden motives can be analyzed. Andreas was very demanding – of others, but primarily of himself. His was a very large general culture, from music to the sciences and to our professional work. He managed a heavy work-load throughout the year – interrupted by sacred holidays with his wife Agnes. Sacred … he had a strong relationship with Buddhism, in its original Bon form, insisting, however, on the fundamental differences between psychotherapy and a spiritual path. He wrote three contributions for Marlock/Weiss’ Manual of Body-Psychotherapy: about the energy concept in body psychotherapy, agency factors and affective-motoric schemes. Andreas was an important contributor to the congresses of the German Gesellschaft für Körperpsychotherapie in Berlin, defying established patterns in our young profession. Apart from therapy he worked as a coach and trainer in the business world in the framework of his firm PROkompetenz. What fascinated him in the last years of his life was Bio- and Neuro-feedback. He went to congresses on these subjects, got training, bought 3-D-projectors and super-potent computers, and started working with clients. This was, however, a direction in which I didn’t want to follow him – I continue to stick to the personal relationship at the heart of psychotherapy. Thomas Riepenhausen

mmer 2010 summer 2010 summer 2010 summer 20 OBITUARY Alexander Lowen Died October 28, 2009

Dr. Alexander Lowen, a student of Wilhelm Reich’s in the 1940s and early 1950s in New York, developed the mind-body psychotherapy known as bioenergetic analysis with his then colleague John Pierrakos. He was the founder and former executive director of the International Institute for Bioenergetic Analysis in New York City. Dr. Lowen received a bachelor’s degree in science and business from City College of New York and continued on to receive an LLB from Brooklyn Law School. His interest in the link between the mind and the body developed during this time, and he ultimately enrolled in a class on character analysis with Wilhelm Reich. After training to be a therapist himself, Lowen moved to Switzerland to attend the University of Geneva, which awarded him an M.D. in June, 1951. During his career, Dr. Lowen published thirteen books, including The Language of the Body in 1958, followed by Love and Orgasm (1965), The Betrayal of the Body,(1967) Pleasure (1970), Bioenergetics (1976), Depression and the Body (1977), Fear of Life (1980), Narcissism (1984), Love, Sex and Your Heart (1988), The Spirituality of the Body (1990) and Joy (1995). With his wife Leslie he wrote The Way to Vibrant Health: A Manual of Bioenergetic Exercises in 1977. Although of number of his books had gone out of print, they are all now being republished by Bioenergetics Press in association with The Florida Society for Bioenergetic Analysis. Lowen published his autobiography Honoring the Body: The Autobiography of Alexander Lowen, M.D. at age 93. Wikipedia

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mmer 2010 summer 2010 summer 2010 summer 20 Bibliography

PUBLICATIONS

The Bibliography is now up on the EABP website. We encourage you to use it New entries. We are continually looking for new material to expand the Bibliography. We are especially looking for new material from: National Associations for Body-Psychotherapy. There is a lot of material in your country that we currently don’t have access to because of our limitations with your language. It is probably only available in your national language. We would like this material to be entered in the Bibliography using our on-line entry system. We ask that you translate any entries in your own language into English and make a parallel English entry. Training Organizations. We would like to obtain listings of the many student theses, training materials, conference papers, tapes, etc. that body psychotherapy organizations and training institutes have available for their students. We are very interested in having this material listed, so we would be prepared to offer an honorarium to a student of the respective training centre to enter this material into the on-line database. Individuals. You may have material at home - your bookshelves probably contain many books - or you may know of material that should be in the database. This is your chance to contribute. Please send us the material that you know about by using the ‘New Entry’ facility on the database. It only takes a few minutes. Please use the Internet database search facility to check what we don’t have and then fill in the New Entry form and send it to us. For material in your language (if not English), please remember to make a second (English language) entry with a translation of the title and abstract, etc.

EABP WEBSITE www.eabp.org The original EABP website was designed by Courtenay Young. Since 2001 Rien Groenendijk has been the webmaster and with Jill van der Aa has continued updating, reviewing and restructuring the website. We are particularly grateful to Rien for the great work he has been doing as webmaster. Our website has grown organically and has an enormous amount of information. Until now it has been particularly directed at members, the National Associations and the FORUM. Recently, the Board has decided to fund the redesigning of the website so that it is also more accessible to a general audience. John Bowling, who designed the new Bibliography, is transferring the Rien Groenendijk site onto a content managementbased System. This will also allow members, National Associations, and Training Organisations to have access to certain areas of the website and update their own information. The project will be ready later in the year and we aim to be able to demonstrate it to members during the congress. The Publications Committee [email protected]

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THE FACE OF EABP What does EABP look like? Who determines that? For the last five or six years, Joop Valstar and Chiel Veffer have been working behind the scenes to give EABP a face; to create a design which is consistantly recognisable throughout all the EABP documents. No mean feat.

Joop Valstar

I think you will agree that it is all beginning to look much more professional. They did this by creating a number of fixed design element and choosing a few basic fonts and colours, which have been used on all the printed materials: our letter paper, Introduction handbook, FORUM book, Grey books, Membership Certificate, and of course the Newsletters. In the last Newsletter they established some new colours for different sections, such as green for the FORUM, purple for personal development. In the meantime we wait in anticipation to see how John Bowling will incorporate these elements into a new website design. Unfortunately, this year Joop has had to stop working on the Newsletter - it is a very time consuming occupation - and because he and Chiel worked as a team we have had to find a new layouter, and corrector. The publications committee would like to thank Joop and Chiel for their mighty work over the years. Both of them will be very much missed. Meanwhile however, the EABP has a face. Jill van der Aa For The Publications Committee

mmer 2010 summer 2010 summer 2010 summer 20 BOOK REVIEWS Hartley, L. (ed.) (2009) Contemporary body psychotherapy: The Chiron approach. East Sussex: Routledge. 254 pp. A review by William F. Cornell The training programme at Chiron, and the shared exploration that took place in service of its development within a core staff group which remained stable over a period of about ten years, formed a ‘crucible’ where theory and practice were intensely debated. Hartley, p.61 Contemporary Body Psychotherapy is a collection of papers written by trainers and psychotherapists trained at Chiron Centre in London. Intended as a recognition and appreciation of the leadership of founding directors Bernd Eiden and Jochen Lude at the time of their retirement and the closing of the Chiron centre as a professional training organization, this collection of papers offer a rich reflection of the tensions, struggles, and evolution of body psychotherapy during the past two decades. As I read this book, I found myself constantly thrown back on my own personal and professional developments as a body-centered psychotherapist. The book is divided into three broad sections: ground and roots; the crucible; and new directions and applications. The first two sections will, I think, be thought provoking to body-centered therapists of all perspectives, while the third section may be a revelation to more traditionally based psychotherapists and psychoanalysts as to the moving and creative applications of body psychotherapy among diverse client populations. In the opening chapter, Bernd Eiden, one of the founders of Chiron, describes the radical roots of the neo-Reichian and human potential movements that provided the initial inspiration for body-centered psychotherapy. I could deeply indentify – as will many readers from that generation of practitioners – with the idealistic visions of the late 60’s and early 70’s. The idealization, however, was short-lived, as Eiden observes: Twenty years ago the field of psychotherapy was disparate and divided into a multitude of factions, schools and approaches and there was little exchange and dialogue between them. This fragmentation was also tangible within the various schools of body psychotherapy. They isolated themselves with an air of exclusiveness, wanting t be special and different, each emphasizing their own way of working with their own methodology and definitions. (pp. 16-17) The isolation and competiveness among the various “schools,” often embedded in battles over the narcissism of small differences, has been immensely destructive to the evolution and maturation of our field. Eiden and his founding colleagues, Jochen Lude and Rainer Pervoltz, from the start endeavored to create a training environment that promoted self-criticism through a multiplicity of approaches. Early on they began to recognize the invasiveness of many of the familiar Reichian and Bioenergetic methods, coming to advocate the use of “the least invasive approach, and therefore apply direct touch or manipulation of the body carefully,

because in some cases it can lead to disintegration an perpetual dependency” (p.20). Many of the papers in this book reflect that attitude of critical inquiry, all too often absent among bodycentered practitioners and trainers. Eiden’s chapter takes up such issues as the tensions between phenomenological and character-analytic models of bodycentered interventions, the use of touch, the impact of official regulation and recognition, and the movement toward more relationally based body psychotherapy. He speaks to an ongoing tension in the field today, reflected in many of the papers here, noting: After a decade of working, our team of trainers was divided between those who work more with the body and those who work more with the therapeutic relationship, and the same polarity occurred amongst our qualified psychotherapists. …We realized that body psychotherapy on its own does not provide a comprehensive understanding of relational and that we had to look outside our field and draw on analytic theories. (p. 28) The next two chapters in the “roots” section provide overviews of biodynamic massage and gestalt body psychotherapy, which were part of the foundation of Chiron, though not models that were so outward looking. Monika Schaible’s chapter, “Biodynamic massage as a body psychotherapy and as a tool in body psychotherapy,” while offering a view into a fundamentally body centered modality and remaining faithful to Gerda Boyenson’s work, it also illustrates some of the problems alluded to in Eiden’s preceding chapter. This chapter introduces such principles as visceral armour, the vasomotoric cycle, emptying, energy distribution, deep draining, and psychoperistalsis. While these concepts are wrapped in language that confers a kind of medical or scientific validity to them, Boyenson has created a highly idiosyncratic terminology that sets itself apart from other approaches and can be difficult to comprehend to an outsider as we see in this description of “deep draining”: A cross-fibre shock is applied to primary and secondary breathing muscles, timed with the moment just before the client reaches the breathing block in the phase of inspiration. Through the shock impulse the client’s in-breath overrides the habitual breathing barrier and the breathing muscles become activated. This initiates a biodynamic process in which the neurotic equilibrium is interrupted and repressed emotional material surfaces. (p. 37) As a well-experienced body psychotherapist, I cannot decipher this description, and I imagine this would be incomprehensible to our analytic colleagues. Biodynamics appears as a model that does not call itself into question, though toward the end of the chapter, Schaible does acknowledge some of the questions raised by colleagues at Chiron with regard to aspects of biodynamic methods and at the same time seems to resist the possibilities of one model challenging or informing the other: However, the principles of a psychodynamic or psychoanalytic model cannot be compared with the biodynamic model, and the two evaluated solely on their differences, based on the assumptions of their own school. …The differences lie in the method, and each method needs to follow its inherent dynamics to achieve its goals. (p. 43) Alun Reynolds’chapter, “Gestalt body psychotherapy,” introduces another foundational component to the Chiron model, the phenomenological perspective through which, “the aim is not to change our experience but to inhabit it more fully and to investigate it with an attitude of curiosity and inquiry” (p. 47). Reynolds offers a clear, succinct, and engaging overview of the central tenets and EABP NEWSLETTER - page 43

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mmer 2010 summer 2010 summer 2010 summer 20 some of the techniques of gestalt-oriented body psychotherapy, foreshadowing somewhat more critical discussions taken up in subsequent chapters. Reynolds concludes the chapter with a discussion of the “I-Thou” emphasis on authentic relating in gestalt therapy, writing “Authentic or I-Thou relating between the therapist and the client is about being together in the room, in a person to person dialogue, without strategy or aim” (pp. 57-58). He goes on to note, “However, the I-Thou relationship calls on the client to see the therapist as another real person rather than through the veil of their own transference. Therefore I-Thou relating is contraindicated when working with those with strongly habitual characterological patterns such as those with masochistic, borderline or narcissistic tendencies for which a more transferential understanding and way of working is more needed” (p. 58). I find it interesting that Reynolds places the responsibility for the breakdown of “authentic” I-Thou relating in the lap of the client’s characterological limitations. Contemporary object relations and relational perspectives would suggest that neither client nor therapist is often free of their own transfererential distortions, that contributions to the breakdown of interpersonal relatedness is as likely to come from the therapist as the client, and that attention to these mutual projections and stuck points can be deeply informative to the therapy. Both Schaible’s and Reynolds’ chapters reflect a kind of idealization of the body, the capacity for self-regulation, and the therapist’s clarity of knowing that were fundamental—and for a long time unquestioned—in our models of body-centered psychotherapy. The second section of the book, “The Crucible,” presents four chapters that undertake exciting re-examinations of core principles of body psychotherapy. In these essays, we really see the questioning spirit of Chiron in action. Far too many of the originators and trainers of body-centered modalities were narcissistically identified with their creations and did not pass on to their followers the permission or skills to step outside their cherished system. I think here of the short-lived Radix journal which was actually titled, “Chuck Kelley’s Radix Journal,” and Chuck was the only person whose writing was published in it! In the papers in the “crucible” section, we witness the fruits of stepping outside of and challenging a system of thought. I found these chapters alive with creative thinking and see them as required reading for all of us in this field. As I read Michael Soth’s chapter, “From humanistic holism via the ‘integrative project’ towards integral-relational body psychotherapy,” I felt as though he was writing a version of my own professional biography, so closely did his personal evolution mirror my own. From the start, Soth acknowledges personal development to be “a painful, messy affair” (p.65) and stresses the difficulties of changing elements in one’s personal or professional/collective identities. He acknowledges the pain of the loss of various cherished identities and assumptions in professional growth and describes the defensive reactions that are so common, from the perspective of the original identity, however, these losses may appear as betrayals and compromises, as a ‘watering down’ of essential principles” (p.65). I was again reminded of my beginnings in the Radix community, as a Radix “teacher” (we were not allowed to call ourselves therapists) and trainer. Over and over again, when someone would attempt to introduce a new idea or perspective, they were met with the question, “Is this Radix?” rather than “Is this effective?” or “How might this help?”. Those who questioned

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too much, found such questioning unwelcomed and either found their way to the exit door or were ushered to it. A community of deeply creative and committed people gradually disintegrated. We see in Soth’s chapter the story of a community that invited and was able to sustain itself through challenges and changes. In the first part of his chapter, Soth steps back and presents an overview of the multiple lines of theoretical influences at Chiron over the past 25 years and the stages of development on the training and clinical perspectives. In the latter part of the chapter, he takes us through his personal growth as a professional, illustrating how often our preferred theoretical models sustain our personal characterological inclinations. Many readers, I imagine, will relate to Soth’s story. I certainly did, vividly recalling my own experiences of my early therapies that were a part of my training and within the models in which I was trained, to the freedom of several personal psychotherapies that were not wedded to training or certification. Soth story is that of a therapist’s and a professional community’s willingness to think and struggle together. In the next chapter, “self-regulation – an evolving concept,” Roz Carroll brilliantly examines the concept of “self-regulation,” one of the sacred cows of Reichian and Gestalt based models: In this early era of body psychotherapy the concept of selfregulation gathered around this sense that the bodymind has an intrinsic momentum towards health beyond any rational, cognitive or even reflective process. …The key element…was trust – trust that if as a therapist you can be present, attend to the phenomena of the body, without interpretation, without urgency, the client’s own bodily response will contain the seeds of a movement toward health. (pp. 90-91) Carroll’s discussion of selfregulation respects the centrality of the concept while stripping away the idealization and magic. She presents an understanding of self-regulation as an acquired capacity in contrast to the notion of an innate, organismic capacity that lies in wait, needing only for the defense to be removed. Carroll describes self-regulation as “a capacity related to self-structure and these structures are made up of impulse, affect, image and role which often hide out in fragments of our awareness…”(p. 93), capacity that develops through the therapist’s attention to such conscious and unconscious regulators as beliefs, images, needs, secrets, fantasies, and obsessions. Carroll offers an understanding of self-regulation as rich, multi-layered interplays between somatic self-awareness and interpersonal (intersubjective) regulation. She acknowledges the impact of transferences – defined as “these implicit early prototypes of relationships … structured into the infant’s body at every level…underpinning the pervasive tenacious unconscious expectancies that clients and therapists bring to the therapeutic encounter…”(pp. 95-96) – on an individual’s spontaneous capacities for self-awareness. She introduces the concept from Chiron of “energetic perception” (p.99), which refers to the learned ability “to hold an awareness at a bodily level of the client’s multiple micro-signals” (p. 99). Carroll is not simply providing a therapist/client version of mother/infant attunement but is offering a rich tapestry of multiple levels of careful attention to sensorimotor phenomena, somatic awareness, emotional experience, and conscious and unconscious self states and patterns of intersubjectivity. It was immensely refreshing to read Shoshi Asheri’s chapter, “To touch or not to touch: a relational body psychotherapy

mmer 2010 summer 2010 summer 2010 summer 20 perspective,” which offers a fascinating discussion of the possible clinical functions of touch (and non-touch), rather than the all-toocommon listings of ethical cautions or of do’s and don’ts; instead we witness an experienced psychotherapist thinking about the varied meanings and functions of touch, inviting the reader to think along with her. Body psychotherapists and psychoanalysts alike have something to learn here. Asheri makes it clear that touch is not simply for the fulfillment of a client’s needs or to promote catharsis, but is one of a number of means to facilitate the development of separate subjectivities. She writes: We have had to change the traditional body psychotherapy emphasis on catharsis or gratification, which aims at undercutting or melting defenses, to a touch that is multi-faceted, with a capacity to discriminate between and hold multiple realities and meanings. (p.111) Touch can facilitate nonverbal communication and fantasy and support deepening capacities for movement and sensate awareness. Her case examples richly illustrate the principles she articulates, and the chapter closes with a clear and succinct summary of the conditions that need to be present for touch to be therapeutic. Carmen Joanne Ablack’s chapter, “The body-mind dynamics of working with diversity,” addresses issues that I have rarely seen addressed in the body-centered literature: race, class, gender, sexual preference, disability, and familial and cultural traditions. Writing with an unmistakable humor and grace, Ablack suggests that “it is not enough that we are aware; the work requires that we are willing to be constantly wrong footed and yet continue learning how to dance” (p.130). She stresses the willingness to address both reflected and unreflected experiences of differences and samenesses, emphasizing the therapist’s “responsibility to wok with the numb and the over-sensitized aspects of themselves and their clients in relation to the dynamic of diversity” (p. 129). She reminds us that diversity is deeply embodied and that the glossing over or minimizing of differentness may lead us to fundamental misapprehensions of our clients’ lived experience. Ablack observes, “When working with issues of identity and identification the therapist has to be aware of what is ‘frozen’ in the landscape and what is running underground, as well as attending to what is shown. The remaining seven chapters in the book illustrate applications of body psychotherapy across the spectrum of client populations and clinical issues. To elaborate each chapter would be to extend this review beyond a reasonable length. Illustrated with case discussions, the chapters as a group illustrate the flexibility of body-psychotherapeutic modalities to meet the needs of diverse clinical problems. Among the clinical application chapters, I want to highlight one, Anne Marie Keary’s, “Do we? Can we look at the disable body?”. I want to highlight this chapter because it, too, addresses an issue rarely addressed in the body-centered (or so far as I know, psychoanalytic) literature—working with physically disabled clients within the somatic psychotherapy traditions. Keary is the mother of a disabled child, and she writes in a deeply personal and moving voice, unafraid to describe and examine her own emotional struggles. She wants us to look and see and feel: I feel my desire in my writing to make you the reader flich, to feel in your body a response to the pain I am attempting to unveil. … Weaved through our work is how to look at the unbearable. (p. 172, italics in original) She challenges us, who work through the body to heal the body and mind, to feel and reflect on how it is to work somatically with a body that can never be fully healed,

a body that may be a perpetual source of limitation, pain, or social discomfort. I found this chapter to be a courageous and important contribution to the body psychotherapy literature. This book belongs on the shelf of each of us who practices body psychotherapy, as it will challenge and enrich one’s frame of reference regardless of the particular training background and theoretical orientation. For those therapists and psychoanalysts becoming more curious about working with the body as a component of psychotherapy, this book should be a rich resource. Why An American Body Psychotherapist Preferred Europe By Malcolm Brown Strategic Book Publishing Hard Cover - 6x9 320 pages - $28.50 ISBN number is: 978-1-60860-504-0 ISBN / SKU: 1-60860-504-3 bookorder@aeg-online-store. com Why an American Body Psychotherapist Preferred Europe is an insightful look at the connections between intimate relationships, professional development, and cultural conditioning. Resembling a life-long case study, Dr. Malcolm Brown creates a two-part autobiography detailing the soulmoving realities of the neurotic suffering and immature choices of his earlier years followed by a more disciplined, integrated period of personal dedication towards offering a new style of body psychotherapy. As a young man in America, Dr. Brown found that the American culture dictated he portray the false persona of an extrovert, unknowingly betraying his true personality as an introvert. Dr. Brown takes readers on his journey from an emotionally absent father, to his first disastrous marriage at the tender age of 23, to the harsh realities he faced while a soldier in the U.S. Army, and to his lengthy courtship of a French psychiatric nurse in London that ended in divorce. We gain insight into our own lives through his honest descriptions of his life struggles and neurotic mistakes in judgment about the women in his life from an in-depth and fully explored psychological perspective. With time and experience often comes wisdom and personal growth. The second half begins his healing transformation out of neurosis as he builds a private practice of an original style of body psychotherapy called Organismic Psychotherapy and with his professional colleague and third wife Katherine offers five-year International Training Programs across Europe and the USA. The theories behind his style of body psychotherapy, as presented in his book, The Healing Touch, published in four languages in 1980, are further refined and elaborated upon in this book. Malcolm Brown received his BA degree from Boston University and his Ph.D. in Psychology from the University of London. He has developed his own style of bodywork with the help of his third wife, Katherine, and has formulated a new vision of mind/body interaction, which affirms the spiritual evolution of embodied EABP NEWSLETTER - page 45

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mmer 2010 summer 2010 summer 2010 summer 20 heart-consciousness. He lives in Luzern, Switzerland with his fourth wife, Berta. Corpo no limite da comunicação, O Rubens Kignel ISBN 9788532302281 O livro focaliza como as relações não-verbais produzem comunicação entre as pessoas, estabelecendo transformações possíveis por meio do corpo, fenômeno que o autor denomina de “ressonância não-verbal” ou “ressonância nãoconsciente”. Relacionando conceitos da neuropsicologia, da psicoterapia somática e biossíntese e da teoria da subjetividade com experiências clínicas, a obra analisa a complexidade dessas relações e sua ressonância mútua. Il Corpo Violato Un Approccio Psicocorporeo Al Trauma Dell’abuso Maurizio Stupiggia Editore: Edizioni La Meridiana - 2007 PREFAZIONE Prefazione al libro: “Il Corpo Violato” scritta da Jerome Liss, M.D. Immaginiamo una grande meteorite che colpisce la Terra. Farebbe un buco enorme. Ecco come il trauma colpisce l’identita’ della persona. E se questo trauma si ripetesse come un rituale notturno, possiamo comprendere come lo spavento ed il danno continuerebbero negli anni. La persona che ha subito molestie sessuali vive un “buco” di umiliazione, vergogna, assenza interna e disperazione. Cio’ puo’ commuovere qualsiasi spettatore, ma non ci sono spettatori che hanno una conoscenza intima dell’avvenimento. La vergogna e l’umiliazione della vittima occultano qualsiasi cosa. Quindi il lettore di questo libro avra’ il permesso di vedere un mondo interno e nascosto, raramente ammesso o rivelato. Nella prima parte il Dr. Stupiggia ci prepara alla situazione, mostrandocene la delicatezza: un’indagine psicologica troppo accanita, malgrado le migliori intenzioni del professionista, puo’ creare, alla vittima, un’altra esperienza di invasione e abuso. Una volta superata questa fase preliminare, passa a presentare una serie di situazioni che possono scuotere il lettore. Viviamo, per esempio, da vicino l’esperienza lacerante di una donna che deve girare la testa e fissare gli occhi al muro per provare a scappare dalla penetrazione inevitabile del suo corpo. Il libro e’ ricco da tanti punti di vista: la citazione degli altri autori, la psicologia della vulnerabilita’ e dell’ingenuita’ del bambino, l’approfondimento corporeo, le radici dell’esperienza spiegate dalla neurofisiologia, il metodo di lavoro psicocorporeo applicato al gruppo, e la coscienza etica che guida ogni momento dell’interazione terapeutica. In questo senso e’ un testo utilissimo per i professionisti impegnati nel problema, come pure per le persone che, avendo sofferto dell’abuso, vogliono acquisire una prospettiva globale su un esperienza che si e’ costretti a vivere in segreto ed in isolamento. Ma voglio soffermarmi sull’aspetto piu’ rivoluzionario

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di questo libro: la sequenza terapeutica e’ presentata nei suoi dettagli concreti! Perche’ questo punto e’ fondamentale? Perche’ questo libro si distingue dagli altri libri di psicologia esattamente per questa ragione. Se, per esempio, il lettore vuol sapere “Che cosa succede veramente nel lavoro psicoterapeutico o nel lavoro del Counselor?”; oppure “Che cosa succede concretamente nella metamorfosi della persona?”, i testi disponibili su questi temi sono generalmente molto frustranti e deludenti. Nei libri di psicologia e di counseling si trovano per lo piu’ una serie di formule astratte, prescrizioni vaghe, teorie nebulose che promettono il Paradiso della Guarigione, ma che invece non rivelano niente di concreto. Ecco il punto radicale e, possiamo dire, coraggioso, di questo libro. Il Dr. Stupiggia ha riportato dettagliatamente cio’ che e’ accaduto in alcune sedute ed il libro presenta, passo dopo passo, le transazioni fra il terapeuta ed il paziente. Non solo. Il Metodo Biosistemico coinvolge mente e corpo della persona che soffre ed anche del suo Ascoltatore: leggiamo quindi delle tensioni muscolari, del respiro soffocato, dei giramenti convulsivi nei movimenti, del grido anticamente soppresso che esplode in seguito ad un urlo, dell’esperienza talmente intensa che si avvicina allo svenimento. Attraverso la lettura e’ possibile guardare una realta’ che non abbiamo mai conosciuto e che, per molti lettori, fortunatamente, non sara’ mai necessario vivere in prima persona. Queste pagine di descrizione diretta delle sedute terapeutiche non saranno facili per il lettore. Forse alcune persone dovranno saltarle. Gli episodi che hanno perseguitato la vittima sono come un incubo ripeututo ed indimenticabile. Il lettore puo’ reagire: “Non avrei mai immaginato che qualcosa come questo potesse succedere!”. Sembra intollerabile, ma sappiamo che tutto e’ reale. Ho cercato una metafora per simbolizzare questa trasformazione distruttiva delle emozioni, questa metamorfosi e frammentazione della persona. Immaginiamo un corso d’acqua, fresca e limpida alla sua sorgente in montagna. Nel tempo, quando il ruscello cresce per diventare un fiume, e poi il fiume corre fino al mare, troviamo qualcosa che ci disturba profondamente; alla fine del suo percorso, l’acqua e’ divenuta sporca, inquinata, stagnante. Ecco come la persona che ha sofferto l’abuso sessuale si sente con se stessa. Quale soluzione dunque? E’ concepibile che questo fiume rovesci la direzione, vada indietro, e cominci a correre nel senso opposto per raggiungere la freschezza e la limpidezza originale che aveva in montagna? Impossibile! Eppure il lavoro terapeutico evidenziato dal Dr. Stupiggia mostra che tutto cio’ puo’ succedere, che e’ possibile.

Recent publications in body psychotherapy and related fields. On the EABP website under publications you will find a section ‘Resources’ with over a hundred books from the field reviewed by Jacqueline A. Carleton. In the interests of space we have not included it all here.

mmer 2010 summer 2010 summer 2010 summer 20 JOURNALS ENERGY & CHARACTER Editors: Esther Frankel and Milton Correa [email protected] [email protected] You can order copies and get a subscription by faxing: Fax: +55-21-25235617 USABP Body Psychotherapy Journal Editor: Jacqueline A. Carleton [email protected] You can order copies and get a subscription from the USABP website. www.usabp.org International Journal of Psychotherapy (Journal of the EAP European Association for Psychotherapy) Editor: Tom Ormay IGA Hungary For contributions and subscriptions contact Tom Ormay. [email protected] The European Journal of Bioenergetic Analysis and Psychotherapy Editor: Regina Axt [email protected] You can order copies and pay for a subscription through the Journal website. It has abstracts of the articles in several languages, though the full articles are in English. www.bioenergetic-journal.net Body, Dance and Movement in Psychotherapy Editor: Dr Helen Payne [email protected] Published by Routledge: Taylor and Francis: Ordering information www.bmdpjournal.net

FROM ACROSS THE POND

Conversations Many USABP members are eager to find out what other ways there are of doing body-oriented therapy, so, once a month, Serge Prengel hosts a creative conversation with a body therapist who has something interesting to say. This is a different style of communication from the Journal or Newsletter, a more casual style that, hopefully, has the immediacy of the spoken word. Go to www.usabp.org and click on the link on the home page to hear the different audio interviews. You may listen in one of two ways. You don’t need any special equipment other than your computer. This will work on any kind of internet connection (even dial up) or at any internet speed - just push ‘play’. OR you can download an mp3 file and listen to it on your mobile device. YOU CHOOSE! This material is protected by copyright. It may be freely copied, provided its use is solely for educational purposes, not for financial gain or in a commercial setting. It should be properly cited when used in any subsequent written work or other media. Use or redistribution of this material for monetary compensation or individual or organizational financial gain is strictly prohibited. ©USABP 2008-2010. All rights reserved. Remember CONVERSATIONS is a free service of USABP - you do not need to be a member to listen to these conversations. April 2010 - Peter Levine, Ph.D. - Trauma Healing Through Somatic Experiencing Peter Levine, Ph.D. received his Ph.D. in medical biophysics from the University of California at Berkeley, and a doctorate in psychology from International University. He is the developer of Somatic Experiencing® and founder of the Foundation for Human Enrichment. He teaches throughout the world. Dr. Levine was a stress consultant for NASA on the development of the space shuttle project. He was a member of the Institute of World Affairs Task Force of “Psychologists for Social Responsibility” and served on the APA “Presidential Initiative on responding to large scale disasters and ethno-political warfare”. Peter wrote: Waking the Tiger, Healing Trauma, A Pioneering Program for Restoring the Wisdom of Your Body, Trauma through a Child’s Eyes; Awakening the Ordinary Miracle of Healing, Trauma-Proofing your Kids; A Parents Guide for Instilling Confidence, Joy and Resilience. Coming up this September: In an Unspoken Voice, How the Body Releases Trauma and Restores Goodness. Peter Levine, Ph.D. will be presenting part of Saturday morning plenary session on Saturday, October 23, 2010 and conducting a post-conference workshop at the USABP conference on Monday, October 25, 2010. Registration opening soon. These monthly interviews are very much part of what this Association is about: a gathering of people with different approaches to body psychotherapy, with the possibility of a stimulating dialogue. We’ve been doing this via the conference, The USA Body Psychotherapy Journal, Keeping in Touch, and the USABP Quarterly Newsletter. Now, these audio interviews continue this practice, in a different, more casual format.

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“We are soul builders, not parts fixers.”

An interview with Dr. Malcolm Brown

As one of the originators of Organismic Psychotherapy and of the EABP, Malcolm Brown has a vast experience in clinical practice and in the theory of body psychotherapy. He has trained many body psychotherapists and has seen more than 50 years EM: You are one of the founding members of the EABP. How did this come about? MB: The other founding member, Jacob Stattman, the real prime mover, was visiting with Katherine and me at our home at Villa Candida in Northern Italy in the summer of 1985. At the end of the evening meal he started to talk out loud about the idea of starting an all-European Guild of practicing body psychotherapists. They were all so isolated and separated in their different European cities and he thought it would be a big stimulus for their betterment to bring them together for annual meetings. He asked me if I would help him to get such a guild established across Europe. I said that I would because it was he who asked me, and I trusted him as a colleague and as a friend. He and I had become acquainted in San Francisco many years previously where I had my private practice in Berkeley of Organismic Psychotherapy and he had his private practice in the city of San Francisco across the Bay. We would meet socially and talk about existential psychotherapy and how it supported our clinical practice. We did a couple of three-day weekend workshops at my residence in Berkeley. Then we both moved to Europe separately, he to London and me to Corfu, Greece for 20 months and then to Northern Italy. He and I got together in Paris and Amsterdam in order to organize the first Congress of the EABP, which took place in Davos in 1987. It was a marvellously moving experience for me to work with Jay organizing the Davos Congress. We worked smoothly and productively with all decisions being taken swiftly and conjointly. We asked Bjorn Blumenthal to be the third founder as we wanted at least one European based founder because we were both Americans. Jay died in 1988 unexpectedly of a heart attack in Amsterdam in the midst of leading a birthing group. He was only 53 years old. In summary, the EABP was founded on the basis of a personal friendship and professional colleagueship by two

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of development in the profession. In this interview he talks to Elizabeth Marshall about his latest book, the history of the EABP, and issues which are currently relevant in our field. Next Meeting: 28-30 January 2011 Rome, Italy.

Americans living and practicing in San Francisco, California. EM: Why were you as an American living and practising in Europe? MB: My entire new book is an accurate reply to this question. Read the second and third chapters alone for a full answer. I could not stand remaining in the USA after experiencing basic training in the US Army under two sergeants who tried systematically to reduce their 240 trainees to walking killer robots. I became disenchanted with the American culture as a whole and its unaware promotion of an extremely extroversive, adolescent-like level of consciousness after being in the Army. I went to the University of London rather than return to Columbia for a Ph.D. in Psychology. I loved London and the whole culture for allowing me to become an uninhibited introvert for the first time in my life. I returned for a second and third visit until I had finished my thesis and obtained the PhD, and also maintained a private practice of body psychotherapy my last six years in London. After the Psychology Examining Committee of the State of California refused to license me as a clinical psychologist in private practice because I was using direct touch as one of our clinical methods, and Katherine and I were forced to leave California altogether if we wanted to continue to teach and practice Organismic Psychotherapy, we chose the Greek island of Corfu and took our three youngest children with us there. It was no problem to use direct touch with our European trainees who came from all over Europe for individual treatment/ training intensives that lasted one to three weeks. Once we recognized that we could survive in Europe professionally, we never looked back to returning to the USA after experiencing the traumatic and catastrophic rejection of our methods by the California State Committee. We knew we would remain in Europe when we left Corfu and moved to the Lago Maggiore region in order to start a systematic training program in Zurich.

In my new book I give oodles of reasons why I think the European lifestyle has it all over the American. EM: In your writings and publications, starting with “The Healing Touch” you have been extremely forthcoming and honest about your own life and your relationships, even revealing some of your most embarrassing and painful experiences. In your new book you advocate transparency between therapist and client. Could you explain why you give this such priority? MB: The phenomenon of the importance of transparency in the psychotherapist has been accentuated by one thinker I know of and no other, and that thinker is Carl Rogers. His belief that the greater the transparency of the psychotherapist, the more helpful he or she will be to the client because transparency from the psychotherapist breeds greater and greater trust within the client towards the therapist. Orthodox Freudian treatment believes the opposite, namely, the less transparent the therapist is towards the client, the more effective the treatment will be, since it has little to do with trust in the therapist at the personal level. I believe with Rogers that

mmer 2010 summer 2010 summer 2010 summer 20 it has everything to do with the eventual success of the treatment.

effective humanistic style of orientation towards the client.

I learned as a practicing Lowenian Bioenergeticist that one should follow the Freudian clinical orientation towards the client. Otherwise one can not so easily offer authoritative, patriarchal-like diagnoses of the client’s patterns of character-muscular armouring that the client will fully accept as authoritatively valid. I have learned over years of practice that this is wrong thinking from every possible point of view. Patients in body psychotherapy must be affirmed in arriving eventually at their own diagnosis of their patterns of armouring if they even ever have to arrive there. Often they do not need this in order to heal from within. The client-centered psychotherapist affirms the truth that the client should arrive at his own self-healing resources through freely exploring all of his fears with a therapist who becomes completely trustworthy by virtue of his own increasing transparency as the therapy progresses.

I will say no more about the matter because it is too vast a topic.

The preferred degree of transparency within the therapist freely expressed towards the client is a delicate art. It must shift in its depth and fullness of selfdisclosure as the therapy unfolds and the client develops more self-trust in his own feelings and perceptions. Most clients cannot handle too much honest selfdisclosure coming from the therapist if they are still too fearful of disclosing their inner fears and negative emotional uncompleted feeling past. They need their therapist to remain distant, non-attached, rigidly rational in everything that he or she says, or otherwise they can easily be overwhelmed by the therapist’s honest expression of his underlying true feelings. I tend to believe that much psychotherapy today in our modern world is characterized by the building of a transference f complete unequals in which the psychotherapist remains in the top dog position and the client in the underdog position. As long as such a transference exists, the client will never be able to trust his own inner self-healing and self-diagnosing resources and will continue to extend to the therapist an idolizing form of perception and belief in him or her as some superior human being that will remain interminable. Read Rogers book entitled: “On Becoming a Person” to discover the full meaning of transparency or congruence within the psychotherapist and how important it is to become conscious of this attitude as one of the important preconditions for an

EM: And what would you say are the dangers of such an approach? MB: I am not the best person to endorse the virtues of greater transparency on the part of the psychotherapist in the clinical context, simply because I have not made sufficient changes in my own mode of clinical orientation except during the last ten to fifteen years. It takes a surprising amount of courage to become more transparent during sessions with the client. If one has been accustomed for many years as I was as a practicing Lowenian to use the professional persona of the knowledgeable, wise, and experienced psychotherapist as a kind of facade for hiding one’s feelings behind, it is a slow process to change over to a more transparent clinical orientation. It has taken at least ten years to make a change large enough for both the client and me to recognize the difference in my attitude towards the dependent client.

courage to be gently confrontational with them. This has been particularly true with men more than women. With less wounded clients one can risk becoming more transparent after just a few months. With these clients you can begin to enter into an I-Thou dialogue that feeds the core selves of both the client and the therapist. It is such a dialogue that is indispensable to facilitating a gradual weaning of the client from a transference relationship in which the therapist remains the person to emulate as a frozen top dog, and the client remains someone not to emulate as a frozen underdog. EM: In your new book you state, and I quote: “I believe that the entire future survival of body psychotherapy will depend upon the formulation of an adequately comprehensive set of theories that favour a vision of psychic changes that align the psyche and the human organism more closely than hitherto in terms of differentiated patterns of healthy functioning rather than in terms of disordered patterns of psychopathology”. Could you expand on this?

The greater the dependency of the client when the dependency is a necessary defence system, the harder it is for the therapist to be more transparent. Clients who are early wounded with weak egos cannot easily handle an increase of greater honesty at sharing one’s feelings on the part of the therapist. They cannot handle invasions from the therapist with any depth of feeling because their endodermal layer is too chronically frozen. They have no inner fluidity of either energy flow between the three layers, the endodermal, the mesodermal, and the ectodermal, or between their conscious rational parts and their unconscious feeling parts to open more fully to the shared feelings of others generally, including those of the psychotherapist. Nevertheless, in spite of their severe limitations to open to receiving the greater transparency of the therapist, the therapist I have learned in recent years, must risk it at the right time in the treatment. Otherwise the client will remain congealed within a therapist patient relationship that will make the patient idolize the therapist so excessively that he thereby depreciates himself excessively for the rest of his life, even after the treatment sessions have ended. I have seen too many failures with my own clients when I did not have the

MB: Body psychotherapy has no one outstanding theory that distinguishes it except the brilliant writing of Alexander Lowen. But Lowenianism is now becoming out of style since Lowen passed away. We desperately need new theories to account for why we think it is indispensable to our treatment methods to offer healing direct touch, even though Courtenay Young, the former President of the EABP does not think so. Read his article in an earlier EABP Newsletter. Furthermore, we need to theorize about what is essential to the psyche’s development during the course of the dearmouring process. We need a new theory of armouring and dearmouring in themselves that are not the product of the Reichian-Lowenian rendering of the various character-muscular patterns of armouring. I provide these new theories in my book. You seem not to understand why new theories are necessary in order to encourage new treatment methods. All of our body work methods have their effects inside an invisible black box that is the human body. We need theories that describe what might be happening inside that black box.

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mmer 2010 summer 2010 summer 2010 summer 20 EM: You criticise the profession of psychotherapy and also psychiatry for their ongoing obsession with accurate diagnoses and for too much focussing on dysfunctional behaviour. Why is this? MB: Being diagnosticians is one of the most potent and ill-used power-over-other weapons of practising psychotherapists. We use our diagnoses exactly like medical doctors, namely, to superimpose our professional status and power over the client who hovers in terror and gratitude when diagnosed by an expert. It is the preferred weapon of the medical profession, which tends to hide in embarrassment when no diagnosis is forthcoming. They do not want to be seen as experts who do not know what is the matter with the client. They would rather bluff. Psychotherapists tend to do the same. Lowenian Bioenergetics is a typical extension of the medical profession’s love for diagnosis. It serves, however, to feed the doctor’s ego more than the client’s needs, I have found. I pronounced bombastically my Lowenian style diagnoses for eleven years before I became aware that it is like putting clients in beds of Procrustes for the most part. We are all too complicated to be given accurate diagnoses of our psychopathology. We also possess many capacities that remain outside of disordered functioning. In fact much of our psychopathology often becomes our helpmates in situations of stress and conflict. Receiving a bioenergetic label of our charactermuscular armouring can sometimes be reassuring, but it is more often a curse that infects our obsessed, isolated mind/ brain and is forever badgering us with even more self-destructive, self-depreciatory judgments. It increases the richness of our mental cognitive suffering on most occasions and provides us with more armaments against ourselves. When I found years ago that I had to change my diagnoses of the same client more than one, two, or even three times as they opened up their core feeling life within the therapy hours, I had to face the limits of putting character-muscular labels on clients. They are like layers of masks that melt as the client heals and become less structured and limited by any kind of neurotic habitual pattern. I further found that acquiring the appearance of a new label is most desirable as the ego defence networks melt and a much wider expansion of living out one’s hitherto repressed past manifests itself. It is like expanding one’s

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repertoires of new and more agreeably pleasant roles to play out with others. When we are psychologically healthy we assume a new role with every other person in the universe and enjoy the complexity and variability of it. Armouring forms only and always a small part of our character structure, and sometimes it is only an insignificant part, and it remains peripheral to what is happening within the core self. Armouring is the deadened wasteland of our growing edges and what is more challenging in my opinion is to focus upon the spiritual virtues and strengths of the client in order to discover the most unsatisfied higher needs of his present lifestyle and to affirm those by making the client explore his actual recent experiences with satisfying or failing to satisfy those needs. There are four higher needs: Eros, Hara, Logos, and the Spiritual Warrior. We should affirm in the client his acceptance of his changing ways, values, ideals, long term projects, and perceptions of reality. We should affirm his getting unstuck from his past rigidities of feeling, perceptions, and even understanding of outer realities. When we do this we do not linger over the obstacles and the resistances and the sufferings. We explore his positive potentialities almost exclusively until he is spontaneously plunged by inner forces into reliving and facing his past inadequacies. EM: “We are soul builders, not parts fixers or accurate diagnosticians” you say in the new book. Further “it is.... the integrated heart that constitutes the nucleus of the true core self”. So how can we as body psychotherapists work with the client towards the development and integration of the heart centre? And is this what you mean by soul building? MB: Concerning the development and integration of the heart center, the Eros Being center of which the heart constitutes the nucleus is best affirmed by having the therapist systematically and constantly evoke from and pursue the client to talk about his contemporary interpersonal relationships. This extends to having the client continue to talk about his relationships repetitively, ad nauseam. Body work should be centered on a broad experimentation with various forms of facing techniques. This means having the client move slowly towards the therapist with his eyes open and looking into the

eyes of the therapist, and then permission to move away from the therapist. The therapist should also move towards the client with eyes openly in contact with the eyes of the client while the client is either standing firm on the legs or lying out horizontally. The client should be encouraged to speak extemporaneously while the therapist is moving slowly towards and away from the client. Another facing technique is to give the client some kind of a shield to protect his or her chest area while the therapist moves slowly towards the client and to encourage the client’s use of the shield while the client speaks out loud to the therapist. A more advanced technique is to have the client approach the therapist by moving either rapidly and aggressively or slowly and softly towards the therapist from half way across the consulting room until both engage the hands of the other in a clasping grasp. The client should be encouraged as he moves to speak out loud to some past tormentor. This may unfold to a more demanding aggressivity in which both push against the other until an emotionally charged sentence emerges from the client. Do not overprogram this part of the exercise beyond placing your hands against the client in a grasping way. Do not tell them to do anything active. It must emerge as spontaneously as possible or not at all, and always with continuing eye to eye contact. The client should be free to discontinue this more aggressive phase because it might be too overwhelming emotionally. A third dimension to the development and the integration of the heart center depends upon how transparently open the therapist can risk being at the verbal level with the client. Rogers’ principle of transparency of soul feelings is what we are dealing with here. Until the therapist can become more and more transparent with the client about his here and now feeling reactions to the client, the latter’s heart center can not fully emerge. Never interpret the client’s behaviour or perceptions with sophisticated observations about the client’s psychodynamics. This is the opposite of being transparent in the moment. The heart center cannot be confined to direct touch bodywork with the chest area. It is eye-to-eye work that is far more powerful. The cultivation of a dialogue-centered verbal exchange is what develops the client’s heart center. The therapist can initiate the dialogue in some cases but he must

mmer 2010 summer 2010 summer 2010 summer 20 proceed cautiously at first. Never bring up new topics. Only the client can do that. The therapist can reflectively respond without offering words of advice or interpretations. Sexual experiences of the client can be shared only at the initiative of the client.

BABIES, FATHERS, MASSAGE – EVA REICH IN MEMORIAM

By Bjørn Ødegaard

And as regards soul-building, it always involves how much the client is satisfying his four higher needs. The therapist can ask the client about how well those needs are being satisfied in the moment or how they are being neglected and left unsatisfied. The therapist should require the client to describe precise interactions with loved ones that show the absence of the abundance of the higher needs being met.

I was entranced by her insistence and by her eyes. I knew her from previous encounters, and our topic was always the same, baby massage, something she has taught all over the world. This woman was Eva Reich.

EM: Thank you, Malcolm, for this interview. Malcolm Brown graduated magna cum laude in Philosophy from Boston University and then majored in philosophy at Harvard Divinity school and the Graduate School of Philosophy at Columbia University, New York and obtained his PhD in 1969 from the University of London. After a spell in the USA he moved to Europe with his third wife Katherine Ennis Brown who became his professional colleague, and they coconducted international training programs in Organismic Psychotherapy for European professionals while residing on Corfu and later in Northern Italy for the next eighteen years. His book about their original style of body psychotherapy called “The Healing Touch” was published in four different languages in 1980. They returned to the USA in 1993 but then came back to Italy in 2003 and resumed working as a couple until Katherine’s death in 2006. Malcolm now lives in retirement with his fourth wife, Berta Dejung Brown, in Lucerne, Switzerland.

Elizabeth Marshall is a body psychotherapist in private practice working with individuals and couples. She also writes and does translation work. Originally from England, she has lived and worked for many years in Berlin. Her special interests are in the interaction between the body, the soul and the mind and how this also reflects in interpersonal relationships.

When I started writing this, she was ill. Analgesics together with water made up most of her diet. She was a wonderful woman who loved people, loved life, and she was a radical to the bone. Now that she is gone, I grieve with a multitude of others who are grateful to have known her. From time to time, something happens which inspires you – or maybe somebody has given you a small push – so that you find yourself assailing a stack of coffeeblotched papers on a shelf labelled “Later”, searching for something you once wrote. That “something”, in this case someone, is the vital, slightly stooping Eva with crooked fingers and sparks in her eyes. She was ninety then, and now she is gone, the sparks in her eyes extinguished. On the day I spent with her, six years back, on a veranda in Hancock, Maine, she was as combative as her father Wilhelm. A medical doctor by education, a gynaecologist, and the local fishermen’s general practitioner, her spirit was still with children and women. Her presence was somehow magnetically poetic. Old people often have that effect. “If we are to save the world and future generations, there are two things we will have to fight for.” She trembled slightly as she spoke and her wrinkles vanished momentarily. Although her jaw was heavy, she was as intense as her parent: “All people must receive sexual education and the entire world must have access to contraception.” That was her message.

There are few things that have a stronger impact than being pointed at by a crooked 90-year-old finger, while a pair of unfaltering eyes looks straight at you. In spite of her noisily erratic digestion in a body waging a losing battle, her spirit was still vigorous. It came to visit me the other day and lead me to the forgotten shelf with the stack of blotched papers. Because of my body-oriented, psychotherapeutic background, touching, and to some extent massage, have formed part of my work. Providing intimacy, warmth and skin contact has been, and is still, a diagnostic tool to gain insight into, and occasionally also to alter, patients’ lives. Views differ with regard to touching. Recent research has found links between cognition and behaviour that suggest successful approaches without touching in a therapeutic context. On the other hand, we have research and innumerable articles and books that emphasise the importance of touching for bonding and harmony. There is no doubt that Oxytocin, levels of which rise when a woman nurses her child, and which is released as a response to touching, has a calming effect. Likewise, touching is crucial for premature babies. Through my work, I often have occasion to witness how fear of intimacy, and abuse of it, can generate considerable somatic upheavals in adults as well as in children. I have given thought to the theoretic basis for this matter these past thirty years, hoping that I have learnt from my mistakes. I know that very many theories are sound as long as we don’t believe in them. The warmth we give, the way we hold a child or kiss a sleeping eyelid, the very quality of contact is, in my view, fundamental for the development in a child of a capacity to make the right choices further on in life and to avoid emotional disturbances. EABP NEWSLETTER - page 51

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mmer 2010 summer 2010 summer 2010 summer 20 Baby massage is hardly controversial. My experience as a parent and years of work in the field have taught me that kids need, like, are stimulated, calmed or infuriated by touch. For adults, too, having a naked urchin crawling over us is often a memorable tactile experience. Grandparents will light up when allowed to cut – oh, so carefully – the fingernails of a trusting little hand. Many will immediately submit what they consider to be proof of the contrary, when I maintain that the body remembers, but the way I see it, is that sweetness and trauma alike leave traces; traces in the form of alertness and tension which can be triggered in new situations and which contribute to balance or unbalance, as the case may be. When you prick your finger, all your cells will have been alerted, in a fraction of a second, that something is going on, and a flight response will be activated. Some people have such an intense alert level that they faint. Likewise, we must assume that gentle, benevolent touch will trigger cellular reactions signalling that you are safe now, that you can relax and devote your energy to contact. As you may have understood, you are being invited, not into the realm of rational science, but into the insubordinate, subjective and occasionally erratic experience of your ordinary psychologist, who works as a private practitioner in an ordinary town. I first met Eva, being very familiar with her father Wilhelm Reich’s ideas about muscular armour, when I was asked by a public mother-and-child health centre to hold a lecture for young parents about parental relations after the birth of a child. We swapped, as it were: I held the lectures for the public health centre, and the health station offered in return, at my wish, baby massage. This was something I had dreamt of trying out for some years. The prospective parents, who were somewhat hesitant at first, and fairly demanding, had a nice time. The baby massage, however, turned out to be a rather unusual affair. The idea was to provide an option for fathers of newborn babies. In spite of the fact that the public’s attitude to traditional role models was softening, a mother’s relationship to her child was, and still is, seen to be more important than that of the father. One of my primary tenets was that men had to learn from other men how to navigate between masculinity and fatherhood, just

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as women have to learn what is unique for women by observing other women. The transfer of a positive and potent gender identity, of the kind that will contribute to a sustainable relationship with a partner, can only be achieved, I believed, with positive role models. FIRST SESSION On a dark autumn evening, eight new fathers aged 25 to 32, and their babies, aged two to six months, turned up. This was the first of two sessions, each lasting two hours. We were all gathered in the common room of a public health centre, which was rather chilly because we had no access to the locked-in electric switch. Small inflatable mattresses were spread out on the floor. We all sat down and started, after warily having shaken hands, presenting ourselves. Apart from names, the birth of each child was briefly described, as well as the current situation – sleep, feeding, expectations, etc. Next, the fathers were invited to undress their babies. The evening was fairly quiet, to begin with, until it all started. First, there were just a few whimpers of the type you can imitate but not describe. Next, vocal cords started vibrating with more determination. You could say that it started as wind in the willows and escalated to the kind of storm where branches crash to the ground. The fathers lost their poise at this turn of events. One of them got up and stared down at his partially undressed offspring, puzzled as though it were a leftover engine part, while another held his child as though it were a bowling ball, and a couple of others left theirs and ran to their neighbours to ask for help. By and by, a shy rocking movement started, though the sound level was undiminished. “Put one hand on each side of the head and let it carefully move towards the neck, but don’t press down too much,” instructed the tireless therapist. However, one of the children was no less tireless and the therapist’s words were not heard. Through the din, all I could do was to just barely hear my own words, as I suggested he pick up his child, which he did to little avail. The synergy was scientific enough, and everybody contributed as well as they could so that two were more than ten. Seconds felt like hours. There was no doubt about it: The massage session was on the verge of take-off. The fathers perspired; the

therapist wore a bleak, stiff smile as he watched children being carried off in all directions. Bottles were being heated, nappies were being checked, and uneasy eyes with large pupils looked for the STOP button. The howls gradually gave way to the helpless bleating of lambs, while their fathers’ eyes reflected despair as they explained, “ He’s never been like this before”, or “She didn’t sleep well last night”, or “Shouldn’t we use oil when applying massage?” The psychologist told them all not to worry. By this time, all the children had been picked up from the mattresses, and physical contact had been established, as babies expectantly nestled against warm chests. From then on, what took place was massage, but not of the kind Eva Reich taught. There was no way of abiding by the proscribed procedure. The clock had taken its toll: tense muscles had generated a working temperature, and the sobs were now reduced to the level of isolated drops of rain following a tempest. “Sit closer together and use small circular movements, and then calmly stroke down the entire arm. Imagine that every muscle is to be made to feel that it is a continuation of the muscle beside it.” They did as they were told, and the next question was, “What does being a father mean?” “What does it mean right now?” Everybody had something to say about the matter; everybody contributed to the conversation, while at the same time being attentive to the children. The atmosphere became calmer, sweaty and close. Babies’ hands were open, and male eyes met babies’ eyes. Large, rough hands played across pale, soft skin. Six times 15 minutes of sweating, and 15 minutes of calm. “See you next week! So long!” There were muttered replies and goodbyes. SECOND SESSION Would anybody come? This was the obvious question. At least the public health centre had not cancelled and had even turned on the heating. Eventually, the participants arrived, every one of them, eight fathers with their babies. “Hold the babies close to your chests, the way we ended last time,” I started, and silence descended, albeit apart from a few grunts, and the atmosphere was hopeful. We started our session by being close. Seven men sat on the floor, firmly enveloping their offspring. The programme was different from that of

mmer 2010 summer 2010 summer 2010 summer 20 the previous time. Instead of discussing what children need, we now spoke about adults’ need for intimacy and about what men and boys are starved of: being touched elsewhere than “just there”. And did our needs differ from those of women? While the fathers were wrapped around their young, stroking them, and occasionally stretching out a hand to help a neighbour pick up a burp cloth, they spoke about the need for touching. There were a few personal comments and they shared, speaking and listening. I would like to emphasise that this was no “howdo-you-really-feel” session, no “let-us-tryto-express-our-feelings” group, just a few fathers of babies who happened to have been given an offer by the mother-andchild health station. From their arms, a soft babbling was heard. In such situations, there is no need for me to be the professional. Just sharing a few thoughts and the good vibes feels nice. “When I feel insecure, just having someone there is often enough. Try with your kid. Let the little one know you’re there with your hands. Don’t try to start something, don’t attempt to solve or change matters. Just let your hands lie quietly and be there wholly, breathing with your stomach and meet the child’s eyes. I also told them that just being stroked across the forehead lends a sense of safety and calm to both infants and old people, so that they may even fall asleep. “Just go on stroking the child, but so gently that you can feel the downy hairs on its cheeks and forehead.” I often tell people, first, to apply a slight vibration with their fingertips in order to single out certain muscles or areas, and, second, to stroke the area with small circular movements that suggest the proximity of other muscles. It was a special evening. The calm allowed us to embark on various topics. We had plenty of time, perhaps too much time for an infant, but it made it possible to share more than just the massaging. An unexpected but not surprising point that was raised had to do with the reactions encountered by some of the men as they set off for the massage session: Some of them felt they had virtually been ridiculed by a wife, a mother, or a mother-in-law, with expressions that could be interpreted as a “just you run along now, and see how you manage”, or a “after all, two hours is nothing” and one actually quoted “just give us a call if you guys need boobs”.

Some indicated that they had been made to feel inadequate as a parent, and that even men had suggested they were not sufficiently sensitive, that they lacked emotional vernacular and tenderness, and that they were too gruff. The female standard was described as strong, sarcastic and condescending. The conversation among them was open and trusting. “Are you a home worker?”, “What’s her name?”, “He’s got your eyes, how old is he?” “She sure is attentive!”, “So you’ve just moved to this community?”, “She’s had a rash for about a week”, “Are you planning to take the full father’s leave?”, “I have a kid with my former wife, and things are a little tricky sometimes.” These are just innocuous quotes, nothing grand, no big issues, just the small-talk we have all been through and forgotten. I guess I was a little taken-in by the easy atmosphere, and I probably overlooked hot spots, but I was very glad to be able to witness how men can use each other to create a small space for mutuality and caring in a transitional period. That sort of thing moves me.

(and damnably difficult it is, too!) The Pygmalion effect may have contributed to the second session: maybe children feel better when their fathers are seen and heard. Or, then again, maybe it isn’t so difficult, after all. If it hadn’t been for the hesitant studies about muscular tension among children that we were guided through by Mari Sletten Duve, Carl Martin Borgen and Asbjørn Faleide, some time in the sixties, I might have missed that sunny day in Maine when I accepted bagels and maple syrup from Eva’s tremulous, velvety, blueveined hand. I see her clearly, and with deep reverence in all my being, I glance up at the sky, towards a place beyond the stars from which she believed we receive the energy of life. Bjørn Ødegaard

Why only men? No reason in particular except that this is how I wanted it to be because I have, time and time again, found that when left to themselves, men communicate in a different key than when with women. I have the impression that when the talk is about children, or about what we roughly call emotions, men are more loquacious and more attentive to each other than when women are present. That is when men speak about emotions and pose questions to each other. That is when we open up. All the men in this group had been “sent” by a wife or recruited by a nurse. On the first night, they arrived out of obedience and curiosity, but the second time they came of their own accord. Should you be wondering about my motives for communicating these thoughts, they are none other than pleasure in searching for selfimprovement as a therapist and as a human being. It is important not to lose sight of a miraculous odyssey from infancy to crooked fingers and intense eyes. If we are deprived of regular experience of children’s needs and playfulness, I believe we will lose something that is vital to our adult dayto-day activity as psychotherapists. It is no less important that we have to have the courage to be our own age EABP NEWSLETTER - page 53

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Earthquake Trauma Relief work with body-oriented therapy methods

Siegmar Gerken, Ph.D., ECP, HP (Psychotherapy), founder of Core Evolution; www.CoreEvolution.com Meanwhile, the information reached me that the Center where we usually hold our training had collapsed and that the auditorium of the pharma company had to be closed, because of cracks in the walls and ceiling. However, they kept their commitment by renting a large room in a downtown hotel. Inspite of these events, date and address changes, about 70 people came!

Chile was hit hard by an earthquake in March 2010. The nation was in shock. I arrived a week later in Santiago to conduct our trainings. To meet the needs of the time, I had changed the teaching topic to Trauma – the Core Evolution approach to work with trauma. I landed in Santiago at 8 am on the morning of March 11 and two hours later two earthquakes of the magnitude of 7.2 were shaking the ground. People were running outside the buildings or throwing themselves on the floor, searching for shelter – most of them still in shock from the previous week. As I mostly live in California earthquakes are not foreign to me, but I have never felt them with such an existential fear. After quite awhile I still felt the ground shaking. At first I could not tell if the ground was still shaking or whether I was still trembling in my body, i.e. brain, as a sensor of any stronger/threatening vibration or tremor in the surroundings (the system becomes highly alert, even when larger cars are driving by and shake the streets). People around me could not differentiate it either, and I became aware that a great number of the people around me must still be holding the traumatic experience of the earthquake in their system. I had already arranged with my organizer that I would offer a free Earthquake Trauma Relief workshop, which then got sponsored by a pharmaceutical company, which did not want to be mentioned or have any advertising.

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After welcoming everybody and centering, I began with Left/Right brain hemisphere balancing to establish more coherent communication between the L+R-brain, which in return allows the system to relax, deepen the breathing and be more present, This enabled the participants to move into grounding exercises and gradually begin to express and release some of their held fears, and realize how they still held the shock of the recent days. With deepened presence in their body and the strengthening of their inner ground, they felt safe in accessing their body as a resource in relation to the traumatic event of the earthquake. From here I invited them to begin to build community, by sharing in groups of four how they perceived the events. Participants where advised not to describe so much the details of what had happened, but rather, what they had perceived and if they could still feel it in their body/system. Up until now some of the participants had just been holding their lives together and had brushed aside their real feelings. The existential intensity of these days left no time to share honestly about oneself. Opening their feelings in a safe space allowed them to share with others and establish a community of understanding – another important resource after such traumatic events. Some people stated: “ I will never trust the earth again.” Or “ I will never trust Nature again!” These statements indicate, that the person will be in a state of chronic conscious or unconscious state of alertness, fear, caution, which means in chronic posttraumatic stress, which may find its way after a while to PTSD. At this stage I then introduced the bodytherapeutic technique of ‘giving over’, that they practiced with partners. This work allows one to move chronic stress patterns of holding fear and bracing against losing control into

trusting the body again and being able to allow the involuntary movements necessary for self-regulation. It felt very rewarding to see the bodies opening up, moving back to a healthy muscle tone, the enhanced circulation bringing more colour into the skin. One could perceive open, communicating eyes and radiant faces. To re-establish their connection to beauty and also to pride of the nature of their country and the world at large, we had prepared a slide show with places in Chile such as the snowcovered Andes, tranquil rivers, Chilean folklore dancers, and others. These images in general create an atmosphere of inner ground in Chilean people, a sense of being united. With the trust that had been regained through the work of the last hours, they were once again able to expand their perspective of nature, their country and the earth at large. We ended in a large circle spontaneously intonating ‘Gracias a la Vida’ – giving thanks to life. In four to five hours we had been able to move from a condition of fear and traumatic stress to establish again a ground of trust in the body as one’s own resource (with concrete exercises they could repeat when needed), as well as building community by sharing and empathic listening, leading into further support and developing networks. This concept has now been refined and expanded, so that we can work with groups of up to 500 participants, depending on the topic and circumstances, in areas of natural or manmade disasters or other traumatic events. This Trauma Relief Workshop demonstrated that with our expertise in body-oriented therapy in general, and specifically with the trauma work we have developed in Core Evolution (addressing developmental and shock traumata in a specific way), we have the knowledge, competence and tools to address both the physical traumatic condition and the associated psychological circumstances. These days we are all becoming aware that traumatic events are accelerating worldwide, so I would like to encourage us all to utilize and prepare to offer our capacities in these times.

Gracias a la vida.

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EABP General Assembly 2010 The General Assembly 2010 will be held during the 2010 Congress in Vienna. It will be held in two parts: Part I: Friday, October 29, 13.00 – 16.30 hours Part II: Sunday, October 31, 16.30 – 19.30 hours We invite members to send in motions for presentation to the General Assembly by 15th August 2010. The names of any persons who would like to participate on one of the committees or the Board can also be put forward by this time.

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