What is Biodynamic Psychotherapy
Biodynamic Psychotherapy and the Pleasure Principle:
Can we connect clinical experience and scientific theories?
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By Dr. Elya Steinberg
Edited: Lauren Liebling and Cheryl Wells
Sigmund Freud said There is a no-mans land between psyche and soma and it will be for my followers to go into this unknown borderland and explore it
Introduction
The Biodynamic Discipline was developed by Gerda Boyesen. A discipline is determined by a range of objects and methods, a corpus of assumptions that are perceived as true, and an array of rules, definitions and taxonomy, techniques and tools.
In this context, I include aspects of the Biodynamic Psychology model of thinking and essence to explain the background and concepts. One of the major concepts, which I explore here, is the biodynamic psychology model of emotional and physiological regulation called the ‘emotional vaso-mororic cycle’.
I see this task as one forging links between physics and metaphysics, connecting science and psychotherapy through the body. For decades psychotherapy was conceptualised as metaphysics because its subjective methods and outcome were un-measurable by the standards of scientific objective methodology.
Following developments in the last 2-3 decades in the theoretical horizon, and in measuring tools and methodologies in neuroscience, science, medicine and in quantum physics, new bridges are evolving. These links between subjective experiences and objective methodology start to bridge the historical divisions made in the human being (such as the mind/body split or different biological systems: cardio-vascular system, respiratory system, immune system, endocrinology system neurologic system).
Biodynamic work is based on respect for the human individual - for the person’s potential and that person’s current life choices . We work to support the natural movement towards health and to draw body, mind and soul back into alignment by using body awareness, expression, verbal understanding and touch.
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