Biodynamics
With biodynamics a body-psychotherapeutic method (is body-oriented psychotherapy ) denotes that has its roots in the vegetotherapy Wilhelm Reich , the physiotherapy Aadel Bülow-Hansen , of humanistic psychology and approaches Carl Gustav Jung has. Biodynamics was founded by Gerda Boyesen . A further development took place among others by Ebba and Mona Lisa Boyesen, the daughters of Gerda Boyesen, who also train therapists. The version of biodynamic psychotherapy practiced by Gerda Boyesen in the last decade of her life is based on a combination of posture-changing massages and vegetotherapy. The effectiveness of biodynamics has not yet been proven in any scientific study.
The aim of biodynamics is to help people to experience more intensely by breaking down neurotic patterns. Instead of holding patterns created by fear, his life, actions and feelings should be determined by the flow of the libido , which is an expression of the living in each of us. The therapeutic attitude is that the client has self-healing powers , which are initiated by the interventions and supported in the course of the process.
Biodynamic Therapy
The thesis separation of body and psyche is not represented in biodynamics. Instead, beyond the approaches of psychosomatic medicine , the assumption is made that feelings are embodied, i. H. a psyche detached from the body and physical sensations does not exist. With therapeutic interventions in the form of touch, work with visual material and conversation, the attempt is made to get the life energy blocked from old experiences flowing again. From the point of view of biodynamics, feelings are held in muscular tension, in the connective tissue or on the periosteum that were not allowed to be expressed. They should be resolved carefully, respecting the resistance, and either “expressed” or “digested”.
Expression can go through regression processes in which the mostly early childhood experiences are relived and what has not yet been expressed is finally left out. The description of what was not allowed to be expressed does not refer to objectively measurable criteria, but to the situation experienced by the client. Depending on the depth of regression, these are usually situations in childhood in which the client felt powerless towards his parents and suppressed his impulses out of fear of punishment or the desire for recognition. The term life energy refers to the force that pushes out of the id to express these feelings and impulses for action.
The path taken in biodynamics, instead of "digesting" held feelings by acting out, is called "psychoperistalsis" by biodynamics therapists. In this process, emotional stress , such as B. unexpressed feelings, are processed by the digestive system and intestines . When working with the client, the connection between the massage movements of the therapist and the “response” of the client's intestine via psychoperistalsis should be followed with a stethoscope .
Since this work on the body can also be carried out without language, it should be suitable for dealing with early disorders that occurred before a linguistic awareness, such as conflicts that arose in the first year of life when the client did not yet understand and grasp his world in words would have. According to biodynamics, awareness of a lack of physical contact or security in this phase is present as a feeling and often cannot be expressed verbally by the client as a need. In the work on the body are on the so-called re-parenting or Nachnähren such disturbances are processed.
criticism
Biodynamics is not recognized as a scientific method by medical professionals. For example, an assessment by the AOK says: “Scientifically, the notions of" emotional residues "that are released through the intestine have no basis whatsoever. There are also no scientific studies that could prove the effectiveness of the therapy. (...) Fear and stress certainly have an impact on the vegetative nervous system of the intestine and are manifested in altered digestive activity. But the idea that the intestinal noises are an expression of the patient's psychological situation is incomprehensible. "
literature
- Gerda Boyesen: Healing the soul through the body: Biodynamic Psychology and Psychotherapy , Munich, Kösel Verlag 1994 (7th edition) ISBN 3-466-34167-1
- Gerda Boyesen: Healing the soul through the body: Biodynamic Psychology and Psychotherapy , Kiel, Boyesen Verlag 2019 (1st new edition) ISBN 978-3-944225-02-9
- Gerda Boyesen, Peter Bergholz: Your stomach is smarter than you , Hamburg, Miko-Edition 2003 ISBN 3-935436-13-0
- Gerda Boyesen, Mona Lisa Boyesen: Biodynamics of Life: The Gerda Boyesen Method - Basis of Biodynamic Psychology , Essen, Verlag Synthesis, 1987
- Gerda Boyesen et al. a .: From the pleasure of healing , Munich, Kösel Verlag 1995
- Paul Boyesen, Huber, Hans-Georg : Actually I would like to… life between desire and reality , Kösel-Verlag , Munich 1991, ISBN 3-466-34256-2
- Siegfried Bach: Narcissism in the light of biodynamics , in: M. Thielen (Hg): Narcissism, body psychotherapy between energy and relationship , Berlin, Verlag Ulrich Leutner, 1997, pp. 169-200 ISBN 3-934391-13-3
- Werner Eberwein: Impulses from within: biodynamics, body psychotherapy for healing and self-discovery , Transform Verlag, Oldenburg 1990
- Bernard Maul: Body Psychotherapy or the Art of Encounter , self-published, Berlin 1992.
Individual evidence
- ^ Biodynamik AOK, December 2011. Accessed on August 14, 2012.
