Contents
Introduction to the English Version
English Editor's Note
Acknowledgment (German version)
Foreword
Introduction
Foundations of Bioenergetic Analysis
Philip M. Helfaer
What Is Bioenergetic Analysis?
Alexander Lowen
Part I · The Self in Relation to Others
Introduction
Jörg Clauer
The Self: Its Functions, its Attachments and its Interactions
Guy Tonella
Cephalic Shock as a Somatic Link to the False Self Personality
Robert A. Lewis
Shame in the Light of Sex and Self-Respect
Philip M. Helfaer
Affective Relationships and Bodily Processes
Gabriella Buti Zaccagnini
Therapists as a Resonance Body. Which Strings come into Action?
Vita Heinrich-Clauer
Body, Relationship and Transference
The Three Dimensions of Bioenergetic Analysis
Violaine de Clerck
Part II · Working with Sexual Issues - Sexuality and Love
Introduction
Elaine Tuccillo
Working with Sexual Transference
Virginia Wink Hilton
Women's Abdomens: Route to Their Sexuality
Michèle Dupuy-Godin
Healing the Sexual Split between Tenderness and Aggression
Bennett Shapiro
Treatment History of a Man with Impotence
Elizabeth C. Murray
Part III · Working with Trauma Issues - Restoring the Soul-Body-Mind Unity
Introduction
Divna Peric-Todorovic
Living on Shifting Sands: Grounding and Borderline Personality Organization
Scott Baum
Human Trauma
Robert Lewis
Case Study of a Survivor of Political Torture
Maryanna Eckberg
". allowing the body to continue to heal itself"
David Berceli in a talk with Vita Heinrich-Clauer and Arist von Schlippe
Perseus' Mirror or The Therapeutic Resources of Flow and Peak
Unfreezing The Body in Shock and Panic
Josette van Luytelaar
Part IV · Treatment of Psychosomatic Disorders in Bioenergetic Analysis
Introduction
Ulrich Sollmann
Embodied Comprehension: Treatment of Psychosomatic Disorders in Bioenergetic Analysis
Jörg Clauer
A Valiant Woman
Carol Bandini
Symptoms and Diseases of the Respiratory and Gastrointestinal Tracts
John M. Bellis
Part V · Conceptual Integration of Research Results
Introduction
Vita Heinrich-Clauer
Psychobiology of Affects
Implications for a Somatic Psychotherapy
Helen Resneck-Sannes
Catharsis and Self-Regulation Revisited
Scientific and Clinical Considerations
Angela Klopstech
The Relative Contribution of Cognition, Affect and Motor Behavior in Psychotherapeutic Processes
Empathy and Interaction as Healing Factors
Margit Koemeda-Lutz
Part VI · Scientific Evaluation of Bioenergetic Analysis
Introduction
Christa D. Ventling
Efficacy of Bioenergetic Psychotherapy with Patients of known ICD-10 Diagnosis
A Retrospective Evaluation
Christa D. Ventling, Herbert Bertschi and Urs Gerhard
Evaluation of the Effectiveness of Body Psychotherapy in Outpatient Settings (EEBP) 513
A Multi-Centre Study in Germany and Switzerland
Margit Koemeda-Lutz, Martin Kaschke, Dirk Revenstorf, Thomas Scherrmann, Halko Weiss und Ulrich Soeder
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