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IIBA Awards have been created (from 2017) to support clinical work, social work and research in the Bioenergetic Community.
This contest is repeated in preamble of each International Conference (biennal), and the Award Winners are announced during the Conference.
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Articles bellow are the outcome of this contest.

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Social Work - Meeting Point with black women and men

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Social Work - Meeting Point with black women and men

Maria Cristina Francisco: Clinical Psychologist, CBT from the Institute of Bioenergetic Analysis in São Paulo (Instituto de Análise Bioenergética de São Paulo) since 2008. Psychotherapist in Biosynthesis and coordinator of AMMA Psyche and Blackness Institute (Instituto AMMA Psique e Negritude).

Summary

The proposal to create the group came about when we noticed in the clinic the loneliness of black people in the face of the lack of space in the family, friends, professionals or groups to share their suffering lived by the experience of racism.

The present work aims to provide a space of conversation, exchange of ideas and reflections of blackness in order to strengthen identity.

In Brazil little is said about the issue of race relations. The secular experience of racism and the current invisibility of its psychosocial effects are a sequence of traumatic experiences that characterizes the experiences of racism as a psychic and corporal trauma (somatic and energetic). We intend to enable the emotional expression, often disguised, aiding in the understanding and relief of psychic suffering through bodily movements.

Knowing our defensive patterns leads us to aware our chronic muscular tensions.

The individual space is respected allowing the rescue of the unique being in this world.

Social project - My body and I

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Social project - My body and I

Lucia Magano, Certified Bioenergetic Therapist and former Local Faculty Member from the Instituto de Análise Bioenergética de São Paulo (Brazil).

The purpose of this project is an achievement of a body awareness group in patients with several mental disorders in long of evolution using adult males and females of ranging ages and several socio-cultural conditions.

This project has been carried out since 2010, contributing with a Reichian device of corporal work which is based on expanding and consolidating the forms of insertion of the Bioenergetics Analysis and contributing to the psychic and corporal improvement of the patients.

Bioenergetics in Human Development and Integrative Care

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Bioenergetics in Human Development and Integrative Care

Alexandre Franca Barreto (Libertas/FLAAB)
Professor at Universidade Federal do Vale do São Francisco in Petrolina/PE, Brazil.

Abstract

I have been developing social work involving Bioenergetics at public health and education units and in social organizations. The work includes teaching/capacity building and health assistance. Bioenergetics have proven to be a powerful resource in human development and integrative care for the individuals and groups with whom we have been working. Our methodology is based on three principles consisting of building safe bonds, Bioenergetic body work and making room for exchanging and integrating experiences through which we develop a “Pedagogy of life” that does not dissociate technical capacity building and human care and seeks to integrate equally mind and body into practices of care and teaching. For the last five years we have worked with over 1,000 people of varied profiles: public health service users; public health professional; public university students and residents; and members of traditional indigenous populations. Some of the results of this study have been published and the most visible results indicate improved life quality (expressed in different ways through physical, emotional and relational aspects) of beneficiaries and its perceived relevance in public policies.

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Proposta de Grupo de Movimiento para Suade Publica

Lígia de Mello - Local Trainer SOBAB
Pascale Baes - CBT SOBAB

A Sociedade Brasileira de Análise Bioenergética-SOBAB, através de sua clínica de atendimento psicológico "A Vida em Movimento", possui como uma de suas modalidades o trabalho corporal em grupo, baseado nos princípios da Analise Bioenergética, denominado Grupo de Movimento (GM).
Esta proposta objetiva apresentar um novo recurso para a saúde publica, onde utilizaremos a abordagem psicocorporal com base na Analise Bioenergética. Em seus fundamentos, para a Bioenergética o corpo e a mente são funcionalmente idênticos, isto é, o que ocorre na mente reflete o que está acontecendo no corpo e vice-versa. A Bioenergética promove o desenvolvimento de ferramentas e recursos que possibilitam o sujeito a reconhecer e lidar com a dor física e psíquica, dessa maneira resgatando a integração física, emocional e mental, habilitando-o a se conectar com o seu cotidiano comunitário.
O programa GM procura identificar como o sofrimento acontece, como ele se expressa.
Estes sofrimentos ou traumas levam a contrações crônicas, carregando em si mesmo o potencial de transformação, quando em movimento. A pratica regular dos movimentos proporciona maior consciência do corpo e a inclusão dos exercícios expressivos, pode favorecer o desbloqueio de tensões musculares provocadas pela sobrecarga emocional , que afetam o livre fluxo dos processos energéticos do organismo.
Estes exercícios, quando utilizados em grupos de hipertensos, por exemplo, tem a finalidade de aliviar a "pressão" interna através da externalização de sentimentos reprimidos, proporcionando conforto e aprendizagem terapêutica.
As atividades de GM proporcionam uma maior consciência subjetiva. Por ocorrerem em grupo, instauram uma rede social protegida, favorecendo um ambiente seguro e saudável de intercambio afetivo. Funciona como um laboratório de novas práticas
interpessoais que podem operar mudanças no estado interno dos sujeitos, bem como nas relações sociais. Desta forma, sua metodologia apoia-se nos mecanismos naturais de regulação do organismo, nos aspectos corporais, emocionais e relacionais.
O GM proposto para este Centro Medico Publico, é um projeto piloto que constará de um tempo definido de oito encontros. Poderá ser realizado também em espaço aberto e no dia e horário que a Unidade e a SOBAB considerarem mais adequados para contemplar o maior número de pessoas possível. Será coordenado por 2 psicoterapeutas da Clínica ' A Vida em Movimento" devidamente habilitados e certificados na abordagem psicocorporal pela SOBAB e pelo IIBA.

Increasing Resources for Bioenergetics. the Sphere: A motherified object

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Increasing Resources for Bioenergetics. the Sphere: A motherified object

Julia Cegatti - Leticia Polosecki

Abstract
Some classic techniques in the field of Bioenergetics have been described in numerous publications. According to Lowen (1990), their modus operandi includes both manipulative procedures and special exercises. Further, he adds that people who do these exercises report a positive effect on their energy, mood and work. Knowing the different exercises, their scope and the therapeutic aims they may help to reach has been a demand which has received different answers considering the changes that Bioenergetic Analysis has been subject to since its origins.

This article shows our understanding of the importance of the sphere as a novel element facilitating both clinical work and training in the field of contemporary Bioenergetics.

Through a process of reflection, realization and conceptualization of our practice, we have characterized the main focus of what we have termed “Biospheres”. In order to do so, we have shown how Bioenergetic Analysis integrates with some aspects of the principles governing the technique of Esferodinamia - Reorganización Postural. Some questions guiding our reflection on this practice are: How can spheres be used to increase the multiple nuances of our inner sensations? How do their features add to the construction of a Bioenergetic experience? How do they contribute to clinical work and training? Which are the qualities that clients find in spheres that enable them to construct a somatic experience?

In this article, we systematize the main features of spheres: we show the multidimensionality of their qualities and how they can contribute to a psycho-corporal therapist's work. Lastly, we describe two experiences in order to show the validity of this tool for clinical practice.
We conclude that it is of paramount importance to convey our work, insofar as this validates our career path by providing us with the opportunity to question contributions and enrich ourpractice as new questions arise.

Online Psychotherapy and its Impact on the Body Approach

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Online Psychotherapy and its Impact on the Body Approach

Mara Luiza Vieira Ceroni
Clinical psychologist (CRP-06/45328). Master's degree in Neuropsychology and Chemical Dependency at the Federal University of São Paulo- UNIFESP. Specialist in Reichian Analysis for the Sedes Sapientiae of São Paulo. Trainee in Bioenergetic Analysis by the Institute of Bioenergetic Analysis of São Paulo IABSP. Integrates the Group of Studies, Teaching and Research in Abusive Consumption and Toxic Behaviors:
Objective Relations in the Contemporary of the IABSP. Research and study the relations between neurosciences and psychoanalysis. It develops online activity of attendance, orientation and supervision. Tutor in the harm reduction program in partnership with the Ministry of Justice and the Unit of Drug Dependence (UDED) of the Federal University of São Paulo (UNIFESP) in the modality of distance education course.

ABSTRACT

Information and communication technologies (ICTs), which are digital, networked and available to shorten distances and optimize time, are entering the therapeutic setting. The body in the era of liquid modernity (Bauman 2000) is inserted in a context where machines have become an extension of the self.

These second nature relationships can be positive or negative. There has currently been a whole controversy on this subject. Garcia (2016) says that everything depends on how the articulation between humans and machines take place. For the creator of the term “Cyberspace” (Gibson,2003), this is a place where one goes with the mind, catapulted by technology, while the body is left behind. Do bioenergetic analysts know how to make this articulation and keep the body present in the techno Sphere? We receive "uncompleted subjects" in our clinics. We could raise several hypotheses for this phenomenon, but our focus here is on how to approach these subjects, whose main character trait is the absence of a protective armor to confront the outside world. Are they battling themselves? Are they hiding behind a computer screen?

Faced with the increasing number of people communicating virtually and participating in activities that occur in this virtual space, it becomes urgent to discuss new ways of looking at this body and dealing with it through these new technologies. Recent research about the effectiveness of online psychological interventions is mainly done in cognitive behavioral therapy (Sethi et al. 2010).

As several authors are dedicated to studying the online territory and its impacts on identity and behavior, Cyber psychology was created to explain its risks and constraints. Questions become unavoidable: should mobile devices be excluded from psychological treatment? Can online therapy be included in the reality of Bioenergetic Analysis? The present study describes a combination of online and onsite interventions and discusses them through the lens of the body approach.

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Obesity, compulsive behavior and bio-psychological outcomes in a hermaphrodite patient – clinical case report

Tags: #Compulsive, #Obesity, #Hermaphrodite

Obesity, compulsive behavior and bio-psychological outcomes in a hermaphrodite patient – clinical case report

Priscilla de Castro Campos Leitner
Trainee since 2014 at IABSP. Clinical psychologist. Training in Bioenergetic Analysis at IABSP. Specialist in Body Psychology (Centro Reichiano). Residence in Psychology (Reichian Analysis-Centro Reichiano). Master Degree in Human Sciences – Culture and Society (UTP / PR). Doctorate in Internal Medicine (HC-UFPR). Integrates the Group of Studies, Teaching and Research in Abusive Consumption and Toxic Behaviors: Objectal Relations in the Contemporary of the IABSP. Coordinate a research group of Psychology and Obesity at IPCAC. Technical Director of the Research Institute of Eating Behavior of Curitiba. Psychologist and researcher at the ambulatory of Surgical Obese in HC-UFPR. Bioenergetic Psychoterapist.

Abstract

Complete androgen insensitive syndrome (CAIS) is a rare genetic condition, usually known as hermaphroditism, which affects the normal development of genitals and reproductive organs.

Patient M., phenotypically female (46,XY karyotype), 27 years old, seeks body psychotherapy due to compulsive behaviors, including (but not limited) OCD and binge eating episodes. In this case, patients born with no external genitals, internally have testicles and uterus but no ovary.

Persistent morbid obesity since infant, already had 2 gastric surgeries, being the first surgery a vertical sleeve gastrectomy with weight regain after 2 years. Patient starts therapy recommended by her surgeon 3 months after second surgery, now a disabsortive one (gastric bypass Y-Roux).

Despite the gastric surgeries, M managed to have significant binge eating episodes diary. The obsessive thought usually was about dying, losing mind, getting any disease and the compulsive component in general was washing hands, counting or tapping 3 times. Patient lives with her mother and stepfather with absolute no share of things like towels, cutlery, plates, etc. The social skills at home are poor as well, patient was not able to take high education and cannot hold a job, due a high level of paranoia and aggressiveness. Have a major history of bullying in school and says that every time has anger of all people (including family) and the universe. The relationship

The Contemporary Grounding in Compulsive and Impulsive Patients

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The Contemporary Grounding in Compulsive and Impulsive Patients

Lisete BARLACH¹, Leia CARDENUTO², Mara CERONI², Priscilla LEITNER^2,3,4
1. Universidade de São Paulo
2. Instituto de Analise Bioenergética de São Paulo
3. Instituto do Comportamento Alimentar de Curitiba
4. Hospital de Clinicas da Universidade Federal do Paraná

Abstract

One of the bases of Bioenergetic Analysis is the concept of grounding. Sometimes wrongly understood as an exercise, in the present study it is reviewed and reconceptualized as a process. Moreover, the process of grounding is, here, viewed through the lens of liquid modernity (Bauman, 2000), in which the body – a dense substance – is embedded in a more-then-unstable reality that surrounds the subject, and the grounding process as the most important element which can sustain one´s sense of inner security (Lowen, 1990).

The present study intends to establish some possible interfaces between clinical evidence and psychosocial approach. Twelve patients, divided into two groups, undertaking bioenergetic analysis will be tested (anamneses) before treatment and after it. Those patients, with initial diagnosis indicating compulsive and – or – impulsive character (Reich, 1933), will be the subjects of the research and their grounding process will be described in details as case studies. Eventual changes in psychodynamic of the patients will be identified. Clinical analysis will intend to disclose the psychodynamics in which the superego remains isolated in impulsive patients, as predicted by Reich (1974). The sample will include both compulsive and impulsive patients, including drug addicted people, who are supposedly slaves of their primary impulses, with little or no control of their instincts, but also patients with others compulsive behaviors as well, individuals with binge eating, sex, gambling, shopping compulsions. We hypothesize the existence of a more preserved structure of personality will be found. Hedonism and sense of immediatism will be investigated, in both types of pathologies. We expect results to be important tools both for therapists who work with impulsive / compulsive patients and for all of those who seek to better understand grounding process in contemporary world.

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Bioenergetic exercises and other practices of body awareness

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Bioenergetic exercises and other practices of body awareness

The effect on endurance-sport athletes after a 8 weeks practice

Marcello Zoni
Psychologist, Bioenergetic Therapist
Parma, Italy (2017)

Abstract

Bioenergetics is a way of understanding personality through energetic processes, that is the production of energy by breathing, by the metabolism and the discharge of energy through movement. According to Lowen and other doctors, psychologists, and psychiatrists, the mind and body can influence each other: what you think influences how you feel and vice-versa. Thinking and feeling are deeply influenced by energetic factors. Chronic tension and rigidity reduce vitality and lower energy. Stiffness is due to prolonged periods of stress, which the organism faces without any possibility of removing the excess tension.
Bioenergetics works may comprehend exercises, which help people come in contact with their chronic tensions and learn how to release them using the proper movements. People who practice these kind of exercises experienced some advantages in their amount of energy, in their mood, and in their performances (at their job or in other activities). These exercises also help improve posture, allow for deeper breathing, and increase self-esteem. However, empirical research on the impact of different types of bioenergetic exercises on adults in general, and especially on athletes, is still insufficient.
The study is a small step towards filling the gap. We analyzed the effect of the bioenergetics exercises and of some mindfulness and yoga techniques on the reduction of the physical and mental stress levels. This produced an improvement of athletic performances, of general health conditions, of mood and of some important parameters (Heart Rating, VO2 Maximum, aerobic strength) which are fundamental for the effort required to participate in endurance sports such as running, cycling, triathlon and which also caused a reduced risk of injury. In particular, this pilot study used a mixed method approach, combining a qualitative questionnaire with a pre-test and post-test experiment over two periods, with a control group, in order to understand how an eight week training period, including bioenergetic exercises, yoga, and mindfulness exercises can decrease stress levels, improve joint flexibility and influence health and wellness in a cross-section of professional and recreational athletes.
The preliminary results suggested that the training participants experienced a higher level of body awareness, a better capacity to handle the stress and the emotional factors of competition, as well as declaring a lower perceived effort during training and competition. However further research is needed in order to better understand the relation between bioenergetic exercises with other psycho-physical practices and the competitive performances.

Keywords: bioenergetic, stress, qualitative research, pilot study, mixed method

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