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Gerda Boyesen
18th May 1922 - 29th December 2005
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Biodynamic Psychology and Psychotherapy were originated by Gerda Boyesen, a Norwegian physiotherapist, clinical psychologist, and Reichian psychotherapist. She is recognised internationally as a pioneer in the profession of body-oriented psychotherapy.
Summary of Biodynamic Psychotherapy & Massage
Biodynamic Psychology is directly concerned with the organic links between the mind and the body and their integrated functioning. Psychological principles are not just theories and concepts, are not just concerned with perception and thought processes, but are actual energetic forces of organic and neurological reality that affect the whole body. The term "biodynamic" refers to the fact that a person's life energy flows throughout their being and their body in a natural and spontaneous manner ('bio' means life; 'dynamic' means movement). Life energy is the force that moves us and brings us to life on all levels: physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual.
Biodynamic psychology follows many of the basic early concepts of Freud, especially about the libido and it's circulation, and especially the concepts and some of the practice of Wilhelm Reich.
Biodynamic Psychotherapy is the psychotherapeutic practice based on the above and combines a basic approach to another person and a comprehensive and integrated system of techniques that incorporates psychotherapeutic body work, body-oriented psychotherapy, and verbal psychotherapy. It influences the physical, the energetic, the psychological, the mental, and the emotional aspects of the client. Because it incorporates approaches to both the mind and the body, it can be particularly effective, flexible, and direct, whilst also being respectful, gentle and subtle. As a psychotherapy and a professional practice, it involves an extended period of training, including theory, experiential training, clinical work, and supervised practice, as well as requiring that the trainee has received a significant amount of personal psychotherapy, and is mature and experienced enough to assist another person with difficulties and powerful emotions.
Biodynamic Massage comprises a number of psychotherapeutic "hands-on" massage techniques that help to rebalance the sympathetic and parasympathetic halves of the autonomic nervous system, promoting the dissolution of residual stress and corresponding emotional tension. It is used by itself and also in conjunction with Biodynamic Psychotherapy, when appropriate.
The art of the Biodynamic Psychotherapist consists of choosing, from a wide repertoire, the method most appropriate for the client's psychodynamic process. An important objective is to stimulate and reactivate the client's self-regulatory systems on both the physical and psychological level and also the self-healing potential that is inherent in every human being. This leads the person directly towards a position of greater autonomy and independence. It also allows him or her to reconnect to the higher dimensions of the self, without which there can be no real development or growth towards wholeness.
"In the biodynamic view, the functions of mind, body, and spirit are totally interfused. Everything that happens in us and everything that we do- our shivers, shouts, visions, actions, thoughts, feelings are all manifestations of the life force moving in us. How someone relates to the movement of their life force is central to the biodynamic image of the person."
Clover Southwell