The Body and Mind Health Centre

Bio Dynamic Therapy

Biodynamic Psychotherapy is a Life Force Centred Body Psychotherapy. It is a phenomenological approach to the development of human consciousness that integrates Freudian, Reichian, Humanistic and Spiritual psychological theories into its own unique organic model of development. The main aim of biodynamic psychotherapy is to help individuals reconnect with, experience and reinforce their own Primary Personality or Core. The Primary Personality can be defined as this space of being within ourselves that knows, that is connected to our true sense of self and purpose in life. This deeper sense of self leads in turn to a deeper connection with the outer world, with the universe and with the Spiritual in the widest acceptation of the term.

Although there is in Biodynamic Psychology a set of theoretical assumptions explaining its own model (see Theories) the approach is in itself purely phenomenological. This means that what is important in a biodynamic therapeutic relationship is the unfolding process itself. The attention of a Biodynamic Psychotherapist will be first of all to recognise where the clients is in his/her process and development. Then the therapist has to create the appropriate atmosphere and use methods adapted to the level of development of the individual, to where he/she is at in his/her process in general and to what is happening in the actual session itself. The position of a Biodynamic Psychotherapist will always have to adapt and change according the nature of what is happening in a session in relation to the level of connection of the individual with his/her own Primary Personality.

The main tendency of the biodynamic therapist will be to work With the client towards fulfilling the goals of the therapy although it may happen that the therapist will have to act as a "revealer of conflict" when working with defences and negative transference. In any cases the biodynamic psychotherapist should use an "enlightened by the heart" approach to the method used.

The techniques used are diverse. They go from more orthodox verbal approaches, biodynamic gestalt, visualisations and energy work to vegetotherapy and vegetative bodywork (vegetative massages). All are used in an integrated way according to a biodynamic model of development and are adapted to the individual's process and level of development.