Peter Schellenbaum

Peter Schellenbaum (born April 30, 1939 in Winterthur ; † May 25, 2018 ) was a Swiss psychoanalyst and non-fiction author who founded the psychotherapeutic method of psychoenergetics (also: body psychotherapy), which strives for a consistent integration of psychological and physical processes.

Life

Peter Schellenbaum studied theology and worked as a student pastor in Munich . He later trained in analytical psychology at the C.-G.-Jung Institute in Zurich, where he worked as a training analyst, study director and lecturer. From 1993 he ran a training and therapy institute in Orselina / Locarno (Switzerland).

Peter Schellenbaum expanded CG Jung's depth psychological approach to include the physical dimension. From this he developed the method of psychoenergetics or body psychotherapy. The works of Peter Schellenbaum open up this method in a more fragmentary and process-like manner. The central motif is "bringing to life" as the approach, process and goal of therapeutic action. “Psychoenergetics leads to the experience and insight that everything - really everything - what a person is doing, saying, expressing in pictures or gestures, no matter how cranky or sick it may appear, is an energy source, his only current source of energy, provided he is with it feeling consciousness does, says, expresses, that is, agrees with oneself ».

In the therapeutic implementation, Schellenbaum relied heavily on group therapies. In this context, he carries out so-called “spontaneous rituals”, during which “energy signals” can be articulated and used as a guide to one's own life trail. In response to the “self-initiator” (client), the psychological specialist accompanies this path with great restraint (requirement of non-directivity). The central point is the simultaneity of sensible mindfulness in the therapist and the client («Sensory awareness is mental self-contact: wakeful feeling that gropes forward and into the direction of the energy point»).

The Society for Psychoenergetics has around 30 trained psychotherapists in German-speaking countries.

In The No in Love , he interpreted the meaning of love as "mirroring the model":

“This is a reflection of the mission statement: I communicate with the other in an area that already forms a mature, central part of his personality and whose development is now indicated for me. I communicate with him - like in a mirror - because I see this area mirrored in his personality, about which I previously knew little or nothing. This is not a non-binding, purely aesthetic perception, but the awareness of a concrete development that is already underway in me: At the moment of perception, the partner is already a model for me. "

Fonts

• The no in love . 1984, ISBN 3-7831-0754-7 , ISBN 978-3-423-35023-5
• See you in the other . 1986, ISBN 978-3-907038-08-6
• Farewell to self-destruction . 1987, ISBN 3-423-15078-5 , ISBN 3-423-35016-4
• The wound of the unloved. Blocking and enlivening love. Kösel, Munich 1988, ISBN 3-466-34206-6 .
• Dream you awake . 1988. ISBN 978-3-423-35156-0
• Dance of friendship . 1990, ISBN 978-3-423-35067-9
• Homosexuality in men . 1991, ISBN 3-466-30319-2
• Take your couch and go! 1992, ISBN 978-3-423-35081-5
• Aggression between lovers . 1994, ISBN 978-3-423-35109-6
• The trail of the hidden child . 1996, ISBN 3-455-08587-3 , ISBN 3-423-35144-6
• Images of God . 1996, ISBN 978-3-423-34079-3
• In agreement with the wonderful . 2000, ISBN 978-3-423-34015-1
• Feel the energy of life. How healing happens . 2003, ISBN 978-3-451-05394-8
• Yes out of love . 2004, ISBN 978-3-466-36652-1

Web links

• Publications by and about Peter Schellenbaum in the Helveticat catalog of the Swiss National Library
• Literature by and about Peter Schellenbaum in the catalog of the German National Library

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Schellenbaum 1992, p. 56.
2. ↑ Schellenbaum 1992, p. 158.
3. ↑ Schellenbaum 1986, 141.