IBP Integrative Body Psychotherapy
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Integrative Body Psychotherapy (IBP) was founded by Dr. Jack Lee Rosenberg, further developed with Diana Asay, a Jungian Analyst, and Dr. Marjorie Rand, and formally presented to the public as a new therapeutic approach in their book, Body, Self and Soul - Sustaining Integration (1985). IBP combines the most effective aspects of Psychoanalysis, Object Relations Theory, Gestalt therapy, Reichian therapy, Self Psychology, Bioenergetics (Bioenergetic analysis), Transpersonal Psychotherapy, Yoga and Eastern theories and practices into a highly efficient implementation system for psychotherapy.
Today there are 14 regional IBP Institutes spanning the globe, including the U.S., Canada, Switzerland, Germany, and Belgium. In Switzerland and Canada, IBP is approved by state authorities as the first method of body psychotherapy
.
The different IBP Institutes are members of the U.S. Association for Body Psychotherapy (USABP), and the European Association for Body Psychotherapy (EABP)
), Breath, Grounding, Containment, Boundaries (see Gestalt therapy
), Fragmentation and Reframing-composition, Issue of Sexuality, Current Situation, Here and Now, Transference and Counter transference in the therapeutic relationship.
The concepts of Secret Themes, Character Style, (other) Agency and Self Agency Daniel Stern
were developed later with Beverly Morse Ph.D and integrated into IBP. Release of tension and transpersonal aspects round off the "core bug". The aim is to create a greater and smoother sense of wholeness both within oneself, with others and existentially with the cosmic powers that be.
History=
Rosenberg first brought his mind-body psychology to dentists in the early 1960s, later he brought body-mind integration to psychotherapists and counsellors.
Rosenberg has integrated the effective aspects of Psychoanalysis
, Object relations theory
, Gestalt therapy
, Reichian Therapy
, Self Psychology
, Bioenergetics (Bioenergetic Analysis
), Transpersonal psychology
, Yoga
and Eastern theories and practices.
He synthesized the best of these various approaches with his own personal perspective and created a highly effective implementation for psychotherapy.
Jack Rosenberg became a training therapist and board member at the Gestalt Institute of Psychotherapy, San Francisco (1968–1976). As a trainer at the Gestalt Institute in San Francisco for nine years, he first called his work Gestalt Body Psychotherapy (GBT) and only in the 1980s "Integrative Body Psychotherapy" after starting to write "Body, Self and Soul - Sustaining Integration" in 1979.
Source: Jack Lee Rosenberg, Celebrating a Master Psychotherapist
, where he was fortunate to learn from most of the great leaders of the Human Potential Movement
: Fritz Perls
(Gestalt therapy
), Abraham Maslow
, Alexander Lowen
, Will Shuts, John Periocus, Rollo May
, Carl Rogers
, Moshe Feldenkrais
, Ida Pauline Rolf
(Rolfing
). At the Esalen Institute he also studied Eastern philosophies and practiced and taught yoga.
Rosenberg was influenced by Robert K. Hall, (Lomi School) was a Student of Fritz Perls and Philip Cucurudo (Reichian therapy
).
At the Gestalt Institute and at the Esalen Institute
with Jim Simkin
, Ph. D., Jack Downing, M.D., [founder of the Gestalt Institute of San Francisco]
Elaine Kepner, Ph. D. [Gestalt] and Janie Ryan, M.A..
Victoria Hamilton, Ph. D. was an Object Relations therapist who was of assistant John Bowlby attachment theory
and had worked with R. D. Laing and Donald Winnicott
(object relations theory
). Rosenberg was also part of a supervision group for Self Psychology
of Heinz Kohut
with Jeffrey Trop, M.D.
Jack Lee Rosenberg
List of psychotherapies
Psychotherapy
Today there are 14 regional IBP Institutes spanning the globe, including the U.S., Canada, Switzerland, Germany, and Belgium. In Switzerland and Canada, IBP is approved by state authorities as the first method of body psychotherapy
Body Psychotherapy
Body psychotherapy, also referred to as body-oriented psychotherapy and somatic psychology, is a significant branch of psychotherapy, with origins in the work of Pierre Janet, Sigmund Freud and particularly Wilhelm Reich....
.
The different IBP Institutes are members of the U.S. Association for Body Psychotherapy (USABP), and the European Association for Body Psychotherapy (EABP)
Approach
IBP's approach is a holistic one, taking body, self and soul as inseparable aspects of our being human. It focuses on the somatic, emotional, social, and spiritual energetic experience, and the way these are expressed in relationships through words and embodiment.Basic Concepts
The basic concepts used in this therapeutic style are: Body-awareness, Core or True Self (self psychologySelf psychology
Self Psychology is a school of psychoanalytic theory and therapy created by Heinz Kohut and developed in the United States at the Chicago Institute for Psychoanalysis. Self psychology explains psychopathology as being the result of disrupted or unmet developmental needs...
), Breath, Grounding, Containment, Boundaries (see Gestalt therapy
Gestalt therapy
Gestalt therapy is an existential/experiential form of psychotherapy that emphasizes personal responsibility, and that focuses upon the individual's experience in the present moment, the therapist-client relationship, the environmental and social contexts of a person's life, and the self-regulating...
), Fragmentation and Reframing-composition, Issue of Sexuality, Current Situation, Here and Now, Transference and Counter transference in the therapeutic relationship.
The concepts of Secret Themes, Character Style, (other) Agency and Self Agency Daniel Stern
Daniel Stern (psychologist)
Daniel N. Stern is a prominent psychiatrist and psychoanalytic theorist, specializing in infant development, on which he has written a number of books - most notably The Interpersonal World of the Infant ....
were developed later with Beverly Morse Ph.D and integrated into IBP. Release of tension and transpersonal aspects round off the "core bug". The aim is to create a greater and smoother sense of wholeness both within oneself, with others and existentially with the cosmic powers that be.
History=
Rosenberg first brought his mind-body psychology to dentists in the early 1960s, later he brought body-mind integration to psychotherapists and counsellors.
Rosenberg has integrated the effective aspects of Psychoanalysis
Psychoanalysis
Psychoanalysis is a psychological theory developed in the late 19th and early 20th centuries by Austrian neurologist Sigmund Freud. Psychoanalysis has expanded, been criticized and developed in different directions, mostly by some of Freud's former students, such as Alfred Adler and Carl Gustav...
, Object relations theory
Object relations theory
Object relations theory is a psychodynamic theory within psychoanalytic psychology. The theory describes the process of developing a mind as one grows in relation to others in the environment....
, Gestalt therapy
Gestalt therapy
Gestalt therapy is an existential/experiential form of psychotherapy that emphasizes personal responsibility, and that focuses upon the individual's experience in the present moment, the therapist-client relationship, the environmental and social contexts of a person's life, and the self-regulating...
, Reichian Therapy
Vegetotherapy
Vegetotherapy is a form of Reichian psychotherapy that involves the physical manifestations of emotions. The basic and founding text of vegetotherapy is Wilhelm Reich's Psychischer Kontakt und vegetative Stroemung , later included in the enlarged edition of Reich's Character Analysis .- Practice...
, Self Psychology
Self psychology
Self Psychology is a school of psychoanalytic theory and therapy created by Heinz Kohut and developed in the United States at the Chicago Institute for Psychoanalysis. Self psychology explains psychopathology as being the result of disrupted or unmet developmental needs...
, Bioenergetics (Bioenergetic Analysis
Bioenergetic analysis
Bioenergetic Analysis is a form of body psychotherapy , based upon the work of Wilhelm Reich, but adding a number of innovations...
), Transpersonal psychology
Transpersonal psychology
Transpersonal psychology is a form of psychology that studies the transpersonal, self-transcendent or spiritual aspects of the human experience....
, Yoga
Yoga
Yoga is a physical, mental, and spiritual discipline, originating in ancient India. The goal of yoga, or of the person practicing yoga, is the attainment of a state of perfect spiritual insight and tranquility while meditating on Supersoul...
and Eastern theories and practices.
He synthesized the best of these various approaches with his own personal perspective and created a highly effective implementation for psychotherapy.
Jack Rosenberg became a training therapist and board member at the Gestalt Institute of Psychotherapy, San Francisco (1968–1976). As a trainer at the Gestalt Institute in San Francisco for nine years, he first called his work Gestalt Body Psychotherapy (GBT) and only in the 1980s "Integrative Body Psychotherapy" after starting to write "Body, Self and Soul - Sustaining Integration" in 1979.
Source: Jack Lee Rosenberg, Celebrating a Master Psychotherapist
Reference to other types of Body-Psychotherapy
In 1963 Jack Rosenberg went to the Esalen InstituteEsalen Institute
Esalen Institute is a residential community and retreat in Big Sur, California, which focuses upon humanistic alternative education. Esalen is a nonprofit organization devoted to activites such as meditation, massage, Gestalt, yoga, psychology, ecology, and spirituality...
, where he was fortunate to learn from most of the great leaders of the Human Potential Movement
Human Potential Movement
The Human Potential Movement arose out of the social and intellectual milieu of the 1960s and formed around the concept of cultivating extraordinary potential that its advocates believed to lie largely untapped in all people...
: Fritz Perls
Fritz Perls
Friedrich Salomon Perls , better known as Fritz Perls, was a noted German-born psychiatrist and psychotherapist of Jewish descent....
(Gestalt therapy
Gestalt therapy
Gestalt therapy is an existential/experiential form of psychotherapy that emphasizes personal responsibility, and that focuses upon the individual's experience in the present moment, the therapist-client relationship, the environmental and social contexts of a person's life, and the self-regulating...
), Abraham Maslow
Abraham Maslow
Abraham Harold Maslow was an American professor of psychology at Brandeis University, Brooklyn College, New School for Social Research and Columbia University who created Maslow's hierarchy of needs...
, Alexander Lowen
Alexander Lowen
Dr. Alexander Lowen was an American psychotherapist. A student of Wilhelm Reich in the 1940s and early 1950s in New York, he developed Bioenergetic Analysis, a form of mind-body psychotherapy, with his then-colleague, John Pierrakos...
, Will Shuts, John Periocus, Rollo May
Rollo May
Rollo May was an American existential psychologist. He authored the influential book Love and Will during 1969. He is often associated with both humanistic psychology and existentialist philosophy. May was a close friend of the theologian Paul Tillich...
, Carl Rogers
Carl Rogers
Carl Ransom Rogers was an influential American psychologist and among the founders of the humanistic approach to psychology...
, Moshe Feldenkrais
Moshé Feldenkrais
Moshé Pinchas Feldenkrais was an Israeli physicist and the founder of the Feldenkrais Method, designed to improve human functioning by increasing self-awareness through movement.-Biography:...
, Ida Pauline Rolf
Ida Pauline Rolf
Ida Pauline Rolf was a biochemist and the creator of Structural Integration or "Rolfing".-Early life and education:Rolf was born in New York in the Bronx on May 19, 1896....
(Rolfing
Rolfing
Rolfing is a therapy system created by The Rolf Institute of Structural Integration and is a system whereby the alleged manipulation of the fasciae by specific methods is theorized to yield therapeutic benefit....
). At the Esalen Institute he also studied Eastern philosophies and practiced and taught yoga.
Rosenberg was influenced by Robert K. Hall, (Lomi School) was a Student of Fritz Perls and Philip Cucurudo (Reichian therapy
Reichian therapy
Reichian therapy can refer to several schools of thought and theraputic techniques whose common touchstone is their origins in the work of psychoanalyst Wilhelm Reich...
).
At the Gestalt Institute and at the Esalen Institute
Esalen Institute
Esalen Institute is a residential community and retreat in Big Sur, California, which focuses upon humanistic alternative education. Esalen is a nonprofit organization devoted to activites such as meditation, massage, Gestalt, yoga, psychology, ecology, and spirituality...
with Jim Simkin
Jim Simkin
James Solomon Jim Simkin was an early seminal figure in the history of Gestalt Therapy.Simkin received his doctorate in Clinical Psychology at the University of Michigan, and practiced in New Jersey. He also was Chief Psychologist at a large VA hospital. Like most psychotherapists of his...
, Ph. D., Jack Downing, M.D., [founder of the Gestalt Institute of San Francisco]
Elaine Kepner, Ph. D. [Gestalt] and Janie Ryan, M.A..
Victoria Hamilton, Ph. D. was an Object Relations therapist who was of assistant John Bowlby attachment theory
Attachment theory
Attachment theory describes the dynamics of long-term relationships between humans. Its most important tenet is that an infant needs to develop a relationship with at least one primary caregiver for social and emotional development to occur normally. Attachment theory is an interdisciplinary study...
and had worked with R. D. Laing and Donald Winnicott
Donald Winnicott
Donald Woods Winnicott was an English paediatrician and psychoanalyst who was especially influential in the field of object relations theory. He was a leading member of the British Independent Group of the British Psychoanalytic Society, and a close associate of Marion Milner...
(object relations theory
Object relations theory
Object relations theory is a psychodynamic theory within psychoanalytic psychology. The theory describes the process of developing a mind as one grows in relation to others in the environment....
). Rosenberg was also part of a supervision group for Self Psychology
Self psychology
Self Psychology is a school of psychoanalytic theory and therapy created by Heinz Kohut and developed in the United States at the Chicago Institute for Psychoanalysis. Self psychology explains psychopathology as being the result of disrupted or unmet developmental needs...
of Heinz Kohut
Heinz Kohut
Heinz Kohut was an Austrian-born American psychoanalyst best known for his development of Self psychology, an influential school of thought within psychodynamic/psychoanalytic theory which helped transform the modern practice of analytic and dynamic treatment approaches.-Early life:Kohut was born...
with Jeffrey Trop, M.D.
Literature
- Babette Rothschild, Marjorie Rand - Help for the Helper: The Psychophysiology of Compassion Fatigue and Vicarious Trauma, W.W. Norton, Nov. 2005
- Edited by Theodor Itten and Markus Fischer: Jack Lee Rosenberg, Celebrating a Master Psychotherapist - A Festschrift in Honor of his 70th Birthday, 2002
- Ed. Christina Caldwell, Marjorie L. Rand, - Getting In Touch: A Guide To The New Body Psychotherapies
- Jane E. Latimer; Beyond the food game - A Spiritual & Psychological Approach To Healing Emotional Eating
- Rosenberg, J. L. Orgasm (1973) English
- Rosenberg, J. L. Orgasmus (1973) Deutsch
- Rosenberg, J. L., Rand, M. & Asay, D. Body, Self and Soul
- Rosenberg, J. L., Rand, M. & Asay, D. - Körper, Selbst und Seele.
- Rosenberg, J. L., Rand, M. & Asay, D. Le corps, le soi et l'âme
- Rosenberg, J.L. & Kitaen-Morse, 8.- The Intimate Couple. TurnerPublishing
- Rosenberg, J. L. “Segmentale Haltemuster im Körper-Geist-System” ab S 66 in “Handbuch der Körperpsychotherapie” (Handbook of Body-Psychtherapiy) , Marlock, Weiss, Stuttgart: Schattauer, 2006; 1120 pages,
- Thomas Paris, Ph.D., and Eileen Paris, Ph.D.; I'll never do to my kids what my parents did to me! - A Guide To Conscious Parenting,
- Thomas Paris, Ph.D., and Eileen Paris, Ph.D.; Nicht wie meine Eltern, Scherz (1999)
External links
- Integrative Body Psychotherapy - IBP
- IBP Institut Schweiz
- United States Association for Body Psychotherapy
- European Body Psychotherapy (Europäische Vereinigung Körperpsychotherapie)
- Swiss Association Body Psychotherapy (Schweizerische Vereinigung Körperpsychotherapie)
- Institut de psychothérapie corporelle intégrée, Montréal
Related Issues
Body PsychotherapyBody Psychotherapy
Body psychotherapy, also referred to as body-oriented psychotherapy and somatic psychology, is a significant branch of psychotherapy, with origins in the work of Pierre Janet, Sigmund Freud and particularly Wilhelm Reich....
Jack Lee Rosenberg
List of psychotherapies
Psychotherapy
Psychotherapy
Psychotherapy is a general term referring to any form of therapeutic interaction or treatment contracted between a trained professional and a client or patient; family, couple or group...