Pesso therapy

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Pesso Boyden System Psychomotor (PBSP) is a form of body-oriented psychotherapy that has been developed by Albert Pesso (born September 19, 1929 - May 19, 2016 ) and Diane Boyden-Pesso (* August 8, 1929, † ) since the early 1960s . March 4, 2016). She pursues her own holistic approach, which also includes elements of analytical, cognitive, humanistic and systemic psychotherapy . In German-speaking countries, the term pesso therapy or pesso psychotherapy is common.

The method

Process of a PBSP structure

In pesso therapy the consequences of

  • developmental deficits,
  • Injuries or trauma and from
  • Gaps in the system of the original family

treated.

In the course of a therapeutic session, a so-called structure is developed in which the client, with the help of ideal figures, is given the opportunity to design healing alternatives to the formative early experiences and thus symbolically experience the satisfaction of basic developmental needs and new emotional ones To gain experience. As part of a group, this takes place in role play ; In the setting of individual therapy, objects are used or imagination is used.

literature

  • Barbara Fischer-Bartelmann: Introduction to Pesso Therapy. In: Serge Sulz, Leonhard Schrenker, Christoph Schricker (eds.): Psychotherapy discovers the body. Or: No psychotherapy without body work . 2005, p. 277-301 .
  • Tilmann Moser , Albert Pesso: Structures of the Unconscious. Minutes and comments. Suhrkamp Verlag, 1998, ISBN 978-3-518-39336-9 .
  • Albert Pesso: Dramaturgy of the Unconscious. An introduction to psychomotor therapy . Klett-Cotta, 1999, ISBN 978-3-608-95422-7 .
  • Albert Pesso, Lowijs Perquin: The stages of consciousness or: Becoming who we really are: PBSP - a resource-oriented, neurobiologically based approach to body, emotion and family therapy . CIP-MEDIEN Verlag, 2007, ISBN 978-3-932096-57-0 .
  • Leonhard Schrenker: Pesso therapy: The knowledge of healing lies in us: PBSP as a holistic process of body-oriented psychotherapy . 3. Edition. Klett-Cotta, 2017, ISBN 978-3-608-89220-8 .
  • Bärbel Smikalla-Weier, Günter Weier: Albert Pesso: Touched by the truth of existence. In: Deutsches Ärzteblatt. October 2014, pp. 460–461 , accessed June 25, 2018 .
  • Serge Sulz, Leonhard Schrenker, Christoph Schricker (eds.): Psychotherapy discovers the body. Or: No psychotherapy without body work . CIP-MEDIEN Verlag, 2005, ISBN 978-3-932096-38-9 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Al Pesso received an award from the US Society for Body Psychotherapy (USABP) for his life's work in August 2012, see: Albert Pesso, PBSP, Pesso Boyden System Psychomotor. United States Association for Body Psychotherapy, accessed June 28, 2018 .
  2. ↑ Weier, Günter: Albert Pesso: Obituary for a pioneer in body psychotherapy , published in Ärzteblatt, PP 15, July 2016 edition, page 313, https://www.aerzteblatt.de/archiv/180735/Albert-Pesso-Nachruf-auf- a-pioneer-of-body-psychotherapy
  3. ↑ Obituary for Albert Pesso http://www.forevermissed.com/albert-pesso/
  4. ↑ Obituary for Diane Boyden-Pesso http://www.forevermissed.com/diane-boyden-pesso/
  5. ↑ See http://www.pesso-institut.de/