David Boadella

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David Boadella (born July 6, 1931 in London ) is a psychotherapist and the founder of psychotherapeutic biosynthesis . He has lived in Heiden near St. Gallen in Switzerland since 1988 , where he runs a training center for therapists.

Life

Boadella studied education , literature and psychology and went after graduation in 1963 as a teacher at a one-class school in Abbotsbury / Dorset . He married Dorset-based English writer Elsa Corbluth and lived in Abbotsbury until the 1980s. During this time his interest and his activity shifted more and more towards psychotherapy, which he made his main occupation. A decisive turning point in his life took place in 1988 when he married Silvia Specht, had a son Till and moved to Switzerland.

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At the beginning of the 1950s Boadella met the architect, sociologist and educator (in the sense of Alexander S. Neill ) Paul Ritter and his wife, the biologist Jean Ritter . Both experimented with Wilhelm Reich vegetotherapy and founded in 1954, the work of the kingdom devoted, of Empire but not estimated journal Orgonomic functionalism that in to 1964 Nottingham in stencil printing appeared. Boadella made his first therapeutic experiences with the knights; in their magazine he published numerous articles on various topics. Boadella's study of DH Lawrence , The Spiral Flame , first appeared here as a series. In it he juxtaposes fundamental insights of the poet and empire, whom he understands as a scientist, in order to achieve mutual illumination. Boadella was, alongside Paul Ritter, the most important contributor to this magazine for over a decade, in which the entire spectrum of Reich's work was thematized. In addition to literary articles, book reviews and short poems, he also wrote reports on his own bio-physical experiments on orgonotic effects. The monograph Wilhelm Reich - the Evolution of His Work , which appeared in 1973 and was translated into several languages ​​(published in German in 1981) , emerged from his decades of intense preoccupation with the life and work of Reich . It is still one of the standard works on Reich.

After the Ritters went to Perth / Australia in 1965 , Boadella sought to perfect his skills as a body psychotherapist , including training in character analysis vegetotherapy with the Norwegian Reich student Ola Raknes and with several other body psychotherapists. In 1988 he established his own form of therapy, which he called biosynthesis , with the establishment of a branch in Switzerland .

Boadella founded the magazine Energy & Character in 1970 , since 1990 also in a German-language version Energie & Character .

In 1995 he received an honorary doctorate from the International Open University for Complementary Medicine ( Colombo / Sri Lanka ) for his services in the field of alternative psychotherapies .

Since 1985, when he moved to Switzerland, he and Dr. Silvia Specht Boadella, Co-Director of the Institute for Biosynthesis IIBS in Heiden. Since then, they have provided training for students from over twenty countries.

In 1989 he was elected the first President of the European Society for Body Psychotherapy EABP . In 1997 he became chairman of the Scientific Validation Committee of the European Association for Psychotherapy EAP , which sets the standards for all methods recognized in Europe.

Fonts

As an author

  • Wilhelm Reich. The evolution of his work . Vision Press, London 1973, ISBN 0854783520 ; second English edition 1985.
    • German edition in translation by Karl Heinz Siber: Wilhelm Reich. The life and work of the man who recognized the problem of modern society in sexuality and showed new ways for psychology . Scherz-Verlag, Bern and Munich 1981.
    • various new editions and editions, most recently under the title Wilhelm Reich. Pioneer of New Thought: a biography . Schirner, Darmstadt 2008 (428 pages), ISBN 978-3-89767-602-2 ( Schirner paperback , volume 67602).
  • Biosynthesis Therapy. Basics of a new body psychotherapy. Edited by Christof Kreimeyer. Translated by George Brown and CK Transform-Verlag, Oldenburg 1989 (64 pages), ISBN 3-926692-00-6 .
    • English original: What is Biosynthesis? In: Energy & Character , 17/2 (1986).
  • The return of the oppressed. A Study of Pseudo-Sexual Behavior ; in: After Reich , ed. v. James DeMeo and Bernd Senf, two thousand and one, Frankfurt / M. 1997, ISBN 3-86150-239-9 , pp. 338-353.
    • English original in Energy and Character , 2/2 (1971), pp. 61-69.
  • Liberated Life Energy: Introduction to Biosynthesis. Translated by Bernhard Maul. Schirner, Darmstadt 2009 (289 pages), ISBN 978-3-89767-624-4 .

As editor

  • Energy & Character. The Journal of Bioenergetic Research; later: International Journal of Biosynthesis, Pre- and Perinatal Psychology, Somatic and Psychodynamic Psychotherapy, Somatic Therapy and Transpersonal Psychology. Initially published in Abbotsbury, later in Heiden, Switzerland; 1970-, from Vol. 4, No. 3 (Sept 1973) ISSN  0013-7472 .
  • (ed.) In the Wake of Reich . Coventure, London 1976, ISBN 0904576175 .

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Juliet Mitchell: Psychoanalysis and Feminism. Suhrkamp, ​​Frankfurt / Main 1976, p. 239.
  2. ↑ Vol. II, no.6 (1955) to Vol. III, no.3 (1956).
  3. ↑ In 1956 published as a book by Ritter Press, Nottingham. A reprint appeared in 1977 as a special issue of the American literary magazine Paunch (Nos. 50-51, ed. Arthur Efron, Buffalo, NY; ISSN  0031-3262 ).
  4. ↑ Head of the institute . International Institute for Biosynthesis IIBS. Retrieved February 15, 2019.

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personal data
SURNAME Boadella, David
BRIEF DESCRIPTION English psychotherapist, founder of biosynthesis
DATE OF BIRTH July 6, 1931
PLACE OF BIRTH London