Working in Depth in the Active Model

At the recent IIBA biennial conference, the theme centered on the ways in which foundational principles in Bioenergetic Analysis converge with and diverge from the psychoanalytic root theory and practice from which all psychodynamic approaches originate. There was deep and significant conversation about this theme. This workshop picks up on and further develops the ideas generated in the exploration of this theme. 

Bioenergetic analysis uses principles of somatopsychic structure and function to create clinical techniques. Those techniques can differ from the methods used in other psychodynamically-oriented psychotherapies as well from other methods which use somatic information in forging techniques.  Bioenergetic Analysis is unique in its use of active somatopsychically based techniques in a depth psychotherapy.

This workshop will examine and demonstrate how those techniques are developed and how they are employed in an ongoing psychotherapy. We will explore different ways of embodying and deploying the principles used to form the technical interventions. The work will rely on experiential encounters with members of the NY Society training program faculty which will illuminate ways different therapists understand, relate to, and use the principles of bioenergetic analysis in their clinical work.