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1. Letter from the Editor | Maê Nascimento

2. Honoring Bennett Shapiro | Lynn Greenhough, Odila Weigand, Vita Heinrich-Clauer & Garry Cockburn

3. Pluralities | Maria Cristina Francisco | Key words: body, plurality, diversity, emotion, transformation

4. Pride and Prejudice | Thomas Heinrich | Key words: homonegativity, transnegativity, narcissism, hetero-centric, cis-centered

5. Basic principles, Fundamental Concepts and Values in Bioenergetic Analysis | Louise Fréchette | Key words: organic pulsation, character structure, grounding, authenticity

6. Winds of Change | Vincentia Schroeter | Key words: Bioenergetics, attachment, self psychology, trauma, polyvagal

7. Bioenergetics Going Forward | Susan Kanor | Key words: prejudice, domination, suffering, chaos, social clinics

8. Thinking About Bioenergetic Analysis Today | Guy Tonella | Key words: homeostasis, adaptation, emotion as regulating factor

9.  Bodies In Disassociation: Microaggressions and Re-traumatization | Helen Resneck-Sannes | Key words: disassociation, microaggression, racism, bias, re-traumatization, empathy

10. "Reconnection" | Scott Baum | Key words: connection, re-connection, autism, borderline and schizophrenic personality organizations

11. The Physical Dynamics of Primitive States | Garry Cockburn | Key words: primitive states of mind, theory of mind, physical dynamics, sensation, ESMER

12. Clinical Considerations Regarding the Use of Touch in Psychotherapy | Diana Guest & Janet Parker | Key words: use of touch in psychotherapy, somatic psychotherapy, ethical issues, types of therapeutic touch

13. You Are Your Body | Christoph Helferich | Key words: western dualism, phenomenology, lived body, embodiment, nurturing contact

14.The ESMER model | Guy Tonella | Key words: self, complexification, ESMER, interconnections, interpersonal

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.30820/0743-4804-2021-31

1. Letter from the Editor | Léia Cardenuto

2. Speaking and Listening in Racial Relations | Maria Cristina Francisco | Key words: body, listening, speaking, racism, breathing

3.Reflections on Working with Defenses and Resistances in the Context of Teletherapy | Louise Fréchette | Key words: teletherapy, face-to-face therapy, resistances, capacities and limitations, research

4. Considerations When Working Bioenergetically Using Videoconferencing | Diana Guest and Jan Parker | Key words: videoconferencing, virtual environment, holding environment, bioenergetic techniques, self-care

5. A Window on the Pandemic Emergency: Reflections and Actions - The Contribution of Bioenergetic Analysis | Patrizia Moselli | Key words: empathy, somatic and energetic autoregulation, relationship, grounding

6. Self-Regulation and Psychodynamics in Bioenergetic Analysis - An Approach to Advanced Training | Jens Tasche | Key words: psychodynamics, structural disorders, affect regulation, organization of the mental defense

7. A Memoir of Psychotherapy | Scott Baum | Key words: psychotherapy, Michael Eigen, anhedonia, soul murder, madness

8.  A Never-ending Plight for Authentic Love - Handling Schizoid Ambivalence | Iana Carolina Maciel Franza | Key words: schizoid, ambivalence, love, hostility, authenticity, therapeutic relationship

9.  A Traumatic Event: Bioenergetic Therapy Applied in a Company Environment | Vicenta Giménez Molla and Amaia Alejos Martín | Key words: trauma, grief, therapy, company

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1. The Other as Potential Enemy | Professor Luigi Zoja | Key words: paranoia, archetypal, collective paranoia, socially contagious, mass media

2. The Face and Body of the Other | Garry Cockburn | Key words: archetypal, problem of evil, Oedipus complex, the feminine, “otherness”

3. Encountering the Shadow – Working with Negativity in the Therapeutic Process | Dr. Vita Heinrich-Clauer | Key words: negativity, Gollum, externalization, vocal expression, tongue

4. Life Force: The Source of Self-Regulation, Love and Bonding | Guy Tonella | Key words: life force, regulatory homeostasis, ESMER functions, therapist’ functions

5. The Challenge is “Now” and “In the Future” for Bioenergetic Analysis | Patrizia Moselli | Key words: character, complexity, defense, energy, planetary humanism

6. Love as Regulator of the Life Force | Pye Bowden | Key words: love, homeostasis, primordial feelings, heart, coherence

7. When My Body Fails Me: Therapy for Women with Infertility | Leslie Ann Costello | Key words: infertility, maternal mental health, pregnancy loss, assisted reproductive technology, mothering 

1. Modesty versus Shame
    Identity Building through Nature, Personal History and Culture
    -Rosaria Filoni-
    Key words: modesty, shame, body, myths

2. Shame and the Dilemma of Human Destructiveness
    -Scott Baum-
    Key words: shame, human destructiveness, neurotic guilt, bioenergetic analysis

3. Shame: Wanting to Be Seen and the Need to Hide
    -Helen Resneck-Sannes-
    Key words: shame, narcissism, gender, sexual abuse, outliers

4. Lesbians, Gay Men, Bisexuals, Trans, Inter and Queers - some challenges for the theory and work of Bioenergetic Therapists
    -Thomas Heinrich-
    Key words: biological sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, sex role, trans

5. Compulsions and Personality Disorders
    Homicides and Suicides: a Social Health Issue Based on Bioenergetic Analysis
    -Mara Luiza Vieira Ceroni and Cláudia Abude-
    Key words: schizoid personality disorder (SPD), rampage shooter, compulsion, bioenergetics analysis, creativity

6. Attachment to Relational Trauma
    -Homayoun Shahri-
    Keywords: relational trauma, internal conflict, structural conflict, object relations conflict, transitional object

 
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1. Letter from the Editor

2. Historical and Contemporary Psychoanalytic and Bioenergetic Perspectives of Sexuality - Lets Bring it Back into the Therapy Room
    -Helen Resneck-Sannes-

3. The Mysterious Life Energy - On the Validity of the Bioenergetic Concept
     -Arild Hafstad-

4. Examining Traumatic Memories - Re-Encoding and Reconsolidation
    -Homayoun Shahri-

5. Fleas on the Back of aWild Dog - Five Skulls and Human History
    -John Conger-

6. Aggression as a Significant Factor in the Formation and Expression of the Self
    -Anat Gihon-

7. Uses of the Sphere as a Motherfied Object in Bioenergetic Analysis
    -Julia Cegatti and Leticia Polosecki-

 
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1. Letter from the Editor

2. lntersubjectivity in the Construction of Boundaries - Between yes and no
    -Patrizia Moselli-

3. Containment, Holding, and Receptivity - Somatopsychic Challenges
    -Scott Baum-

4. Traumatic Memories - A Neuroscience Perspective
     -Homayoun Shahri-

5. From Body Structure to Bodies in Resonance - Evolution of the Therapeutic Relationship in Bloenergetic Analysis
    -Fina Pla-

6. The Borderline Client, Shame and Somatic Counter - Transference
    -Ingrid Cryns-

 
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1. Letter from the Editor

2. Polyvagal Theory - Introduction for Somatic Psychotherapy
    -Vincentia Schroeter-

3. On Falling, Holding, and Grounding
    -Gerald Periman-

4. Elements of Comprehending Change-Processes in BA From Isolated Self-Regulation to Interactive Regulation: Embodied Resonance (Empathy) and Physical Encounter
    -Joerg Clauer-

5. The Alchemy of Ground
    -John Conger-

6. Searching for Active Factors in Diverse Approaches to Psychotherapy - Types of Intervention and Temporal Aspects (Brief Research Report)
    -Margit Koemeda-Lutz, Aureliano Crameri, Peter Schulthess, Agnes von Wyl & Voiker Tschuschke-

7. Body Resonance and the Voice
    -Vita Heinrich-Clauer-

 
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1. Inside the Backroom: The Clinical Journal of Bioenergetic Analysis - The 30 Year Perspective 1984-2014
    -5 Chief Editors-

2. Body and Body Psychotherapy in the Global Village
    -Christoph Helferich-

3. Bioenergetic Self-Care for Therapists - Between Openness and Boundary Setting
    -Vita Heinrich-Clauer-

4. The "Energetics" of Couples Therapy
    -Garet Bedrosian-

5. The Importance of Integrating Pre- and Perinatal Issues into Bioenergetic Analysis
    -Wera Fauser-

6. Feeling Ridiculous and the Emotion of Shame in Physical Experiences During Analysis
    -Giuseppe Carzedda-

 
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1. The Present Dilemma of Psychotherapy - Psychotherapy at Risk
    -Maê Nascimento-

2. Interview with Eleanor Greenlee
    -John Conger-

3. Analysis of Developmental Trauma
    -Homayoun Shahri-

4. Yawning - Grounding by the Inner Stretch Pattern
    -Thomas Heinrich-

5. Creativity and Grounding in a Liquid World: Building and Maintaining a Social Clinic in Sâo Paulo, Brazil
    -Léia Maria De Mora Cardenuto-

6. Integrating Régulation Therapy and Bioenergetic Analysis
    -Vincentia Schroeter-

7. From Pain and Anxiety to Pleasure
    -Helen Resneck-Sannes-

8. Abstracts to "A Core Energetics Approach to Negativity"
    -Odila Weigand-

9. A Core Energetics Approach to Negativity
    -Odila Weigand-

1. Somatopsychic Unconscious Processes and their Involvement in Chronic Relational Trauma: Somatic Transference and its Manifestation in Relational, Family, and Power Dynamics
    -Elaine Tucillo-

2. Bioenergetic Stool Work in the Lying Down Position and Star-like Life Energy Pulsation
    -Margherita Giustiniani-

3. "Seeing what is so simply présent" - Learning to be a Bioenergetic Therapist
    -Garry Cockburn-

4. Lowen's Energy Concept: A Neurobiological Explanation and Redefinition
    -Christa D. Ventling-

5. The Merciless God of Gravity and the Organism's Humble Reply
    -Arild Hafstad-

6. (Book Review) Self Cure: You Can Do More for Yourself than Your Doctor Can
    -Virginia Wink Hilton-

 
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1. Neuroscience, Attachment and Love    
    -Helen Resneck-Sannes-

2. An Object Relations Perspective on Bioenergetics and Pre-Oedipal Transferences
    -Garry Cockburn-

3. Integrating Brain, Mind, and Body: Clinical and Therapeutic Implications of Neuroscience - An Introduction
    -Margit Koemeda-Lutz-

4. Poem
    -Linda Neal-

5. (Book Review) Bend into Shape: Techniques for BioenergeticTherapists
    -Jacqueline Mills-

6. (Book Review) The Expression of an Age-Old Need for Company: Infant Research and Bioenergetic Analysis
    -Nicoletta Cinotti-

7. (Book Review) Neurobiological Theory and Models: A Help or Hindrance in thé Clinical Encounter?
    -Robert Lewis-

 
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1. Memorial Notes about Richard Mullins
    -Walt Watman- 

2. (Scientific Paper) Neurobiology and Psychological Development of Grounding and Embodiment: Applications in the Treatment of Clients with Early Disorders
    -Jörg Clauer- 

3.  (Scientific Paper) What has changed for Clients of the Bioenergetic Approach to Therapy in the Realm of their Relationship with God?
    -James Allard-

4. (Scientific Paper) Broken and Veiled in Shame - Revealed by the Body’s Implicit Light
    -Robert Lewis-

5. (Creative Writing Section) Poems
    -Linda Neal-

5. (Creative Writing Section) Grieving Mom Poems
    -Vincentia Schroeter-

6. (Book Review) J. Bauer: Epigenetics and Body Psychotherapy
    -Margit Koemeda-Lutz- 

7. (Book Review) M. Koemeda-Lutz: Intelligente Emotionalität (Intelligent Emotionality)
    -Angela Klopstech- 

8. (Book Review) D. Siegel: Mindsight
    -Robert Hilton-

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Memorial Notes about Alexander Lowen
Guy Tonella, Helen Resneck-Sannes, Bob Lewis, Vivian Guze, Heiner Steckel, Alice Ladas, George Downing, Bob Hilton, Eleanor Greenlee& Phil Helfaer (in order of notes)

Memorial Note about David J. Finlay
Maê Nascimento

Notes on Intimate Connections
David J. Finlay

Trusting the Wisdom of the Failing Body
From Well-Being to Illness: A Journey towards Wholeness
Louise Fréchette

Bioenergetic Analysis and Community Therapy
Expanding the paradigm
Mariano Pedroza

The Impact of Gender on Subjectivity
Fina Pla  

 
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Letter from the Editor | Vincentia Schroeter 

Memorial Note: On the passing away of Alexander Lowen | Vincentia Schroeter

So Which Body Is It?| Angela Klopstech | Keywords: Body concepts, relationality, multiple body perspective, body metaphor

Borderline Character Structure Revisited | Vincentia Schroeter | Keywords: Borderline, dissolution panie, cooperation, rageful, boundaries

Rekindling Pleasure: Seven Exercises for Opening your Heart, Reaching Out and Touching Gently | Bennett Shapiro | Keywords: Heart, reaching, touching, pleasure, energetic, exercises

Helping Children Discharge Negative Aggression | Dennis McCarthy | Keywords: Discharge, pulsation, sandplay, filter, monster

The Role of Bioenergetic Supervision in Bioenergetic Training | Alex Munroe | Keywords: Bioenergetic analysis, psychotherapy, supervision, social work, training

A Bioenergetic Clinical Case Study of Sarah | D. Emma Rhoads | Keywords: Study, transference, countertransference, bioenergeticstudy, transference, countertransference, bioenergetic analysis

Personal Musings on Countertransference In the Context of Becoming A Bioenergetic Analyst | Jacqueline Mills | Keywords: Counter transference, shame, narcissistic wound, projective identification, wounded healer

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Letter from the Editor | Vincentia Schroeter

Standing On Both Legs: A Bioenergetic Perspective on the Family, Gender Roles and the Development of the Self in the 21st Century | Garry Cockburn | Keywords: Hermeneutics, Otherness of the Embodied Self, Social Ethics

Paradigms for Bioenergetic Analysis at the Dawn of the 21st Century | Guy Tonella | Keywords: Bioenergetic Analysis, Paradigms, Self, Attachment, Intersubjective

Book Review

Your Core Energy is Within Your Grasp | Bennett Shapiro | Keywords: Boundary, charge, contain, energetic, exercises

Fathers are the Dark Matter of the Psychic Universe | Scott Baum | Keywords: Fathers, fathering, men, masculine development

Bioenergetic Analysis and Contemporary Psychotherapy: Further Considerations | Angela Klopstech | Keywords: neuroscience, limbic system, optimal arousal level, mirror neurons, body-oriented interventions

Psychoanalyse der Lebensbewegungen. Zum körperlichen Geschehen in der psychoanalytischen Therapie | Angela Klopstech

If You Turned into a Monster. Transformation through Play: A Body-Centered Approach to Play TherapyIf You Turned into a Monster. Transformation through Play: A Body-Centered Approach to Play Therapy | Vincentia Schroeter

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Editorial Note | Margit Koemeda

Energetic Dimensions of Trauma Treatment | David J. Finlay | Key Words: Energetics, Developmental and Shock Trauma, Embodiment, Metaphors, Vision, Processing

The Embodied Mind | Helen Resneck-Sannes | Key Words: Attachment, Bioenergetics, Brain, Embodied, Empathy, Mirror Neurons, Neurobiology, Trauma

Shame in the Light of Sex and Self-Respect | Philip M. Helfaer | Key Words: Treatment of Shame, Bioenergetic Analysis, Self-Respect, Bioenergetic Therapy of Shame, Self-Hate System

Sensitivity Training during Pregnancy: Key to Bonding and Possible Prevention of Neurosis of the Child? | Christa D. Ventling | Key Words: Pregnant clients, sensitivity training, awareness exercises, newborn signals and body language, bonding quality

Embodied Comprehension: Treatment of Psychosomatic Disorders in Bioenergetic Analysis | Jörg Clauer | Key Words: Psychosomatic dissociation, basic creation of an embodied self, self-efficacy or agency, parent-body, implicit intersubjective knowledge, triangulation, balance disc, rope, teething ring

Bioenergetics in search of a secure Self | Robert Lewis | Key Words: Attachment, secure base, avoidant, shock, dissociated, psychosomatic unity

Living On Purpose: Reality, Unreality and the Life of the Body | Scott Baum | Key Words: Borderline personality, organization, soul-murder, unreality, psychosis

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1. Editorial Note | Margit Koemeda

2. Reich, Lowen and the IIBA: Facing the Challenge of a Conflict Ridden World | Virginia Wink Hilton

3. What’s the Use of Violence? | Ron Robbins

4. Shock, Trauma, and Polarization: Finding Unity in a World of Dualities | Michael Maley

5. A Somatopsychic Relational Model for Growing an Emotionally Healthy, Sexually Open Body from the Ground Up | Elaine Tuccillo

6.Bioenergetics and a Paradoxical View of Sexuality: how characterlogical development is related to current erotic life! Bioenergetics and a Paradoxical View of Sexuality: how characterlogical development is related to current erotic life! | Diana Guest

7. Is there Healing Power in Rage? - The relative contribution of cognition, affect and movement to psychotherapeutic processes | Margit Koemeda-Lutz

8. Explorations into the Neurological Basis of our Sense of Self into the Neurological Basis of our Sense of Self | Anton Lethin

9. Bioenergetic Boundary-Building Boundary-Building | Bennett Shapiro

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1. Editorial | Margit Koemeda

2. The Anatomy of Empathy | Robert Lewis

3. Bioenergetics: Past Present and Future | Helen Resneck-Sannes

4. Emotional Inhibition and Disease | Harald C. Traue, Russell M. Deighton, Petra Ritschi

5. The Space of Silence | Maê Nascimento

6. Catharsis and Self-Regulation revisited: Scientific and Clinical Considerations | Angela Klopstech

7. Book Review of: Lowen, A. (2004) (Ed. Glazer, R.). Honoring the Body, The Autobiography of Alexander Lowen | Philip M. Helfaer

Physical Contact and Construction of a Therapeutic Intersubjective Bond
Maryse Doess

Seeing the Truth: Removing Denial from the Eyes
David Kuniansky

Projective Identification Revisited - Listening with the Limbic System
Robert Lewis

Interview with Alexander Lowen
Patrizia Moselli

O Corpo Vibrante
Patients with Eating Disorders: Bodies without Vibrance
Christa D. Ventling

Different Worlds: The Patient, Psychanalysis, and the Psychtherapist
José Luís Gomes

False Pride and the Overpowering Love of Friends
Susan Downe

Recovering from “Recovered Memory”
Pye Bowden

Integrations for a Psychology without Body and a Neurology without Soul
Edith Liberman

The Group in Bioenergetic Anaysis
Gabriella Buti Zaccagnini (translated by Alberto Zaccagnini)

Bioenergetic Analysis Made Simple
Peter S. Fernald

“Grasping the Body” Some Hypotheses on the Processes of Somatization
Daniel Bouko-Levy  

The Significance of Scientific Research for Bioenergetics
Christa D. Ventling

The Efficacy of Bioenergetic Analysis as a Method of Psychotherapy
Ulrich Gudat

Efficacy of Bioenergetic Therapies and Stability of the Therapeutic Result: A Retrospective Investigation
Christa D. Ventling

What do human bodies tell us? In Search of statistically significant empirical confirmation for the “Language of the Body”. A Study in Bioenergetic Body-Diagnostics
Margit Koemeda-Lutz & Hans Peter

The Role of Sensory Styles in Psychotherapy: Synopsis of research
Vincentia S. Schroeter

Psychobiology of Affects: Implications for a Somatic Psychotherapy
Helen Resnick-Sannes

Looking at Physical and Relational Development from the Point of View of What is Natural: Grounding - From Father and from Mother, Centering, Facing
Beatriz de Almeida Rego Saboya 

Dedication - James A Miller

Notes on Intimate Connections
David J. Finlay

Challenging the Field-An Introduction to a Therapist's Case Forum
Ron Robbins

From Steel Ingot to Dog Collar to Medal of Honor: Hammering out Freedom
Carolyn Law

The Boundary Exercise Revisited
Elizabeth Rablen

Psychiatric Iatrogenesis
Mark J. Sicherman

Carl Rogers: Body-Centered Psychotherapist
Peter S. Fernald

The Body of Shame: Character and Play
John Conger

Current Trends on BioenergeticTherapy, Brazil
Odila Weigand

Bioenergetic Analysis, Voice and Singing
Dario Fainsrain

About the Difficulty of Singing a Scale-Reflections on the Interrelation Between Ego and Body Organizations
Jens Tasche

Developing Undiscovered Sources of Bioenergetic Analysis      in Russian 
Rainer Mahr

There Once Lived a Man: A Tribute to Jack McIntyre
Richard Mullins

The Bioenergetic Analyst’s Identity / La Identidad del Analista Bioenergético
Jesús Landa

Will Iceberg Sink Titanic?
Bennett Shapiro

Psychoanalysis and Body Psychotherapies in Dialogue
Angela Klopstech

The Bioenergetic Use of a Psychoanalytic Conception of Cure
Angela Klopstech

How Trust Becomes Distrust and Other Perils of Countertransference
Leslie Case

The Mulberry Tree
Kenneth H. Stephenson

The Anal and the Analytic - Part II
Ron Robbins

Bioenergetic Stool
Tom Wills

The Bodymap: A Precise Diagnostic Tool for Psychotherapy
Peter Bernhardt & Joel Isaacs

Murcielagos
Kristan Rosekrans

Embodying Politics:The Israeli/Palestinian conflict and my person recovery from PTSD
Dave Berceli

Trauma and Startle Reflex: It’s Creation and Resolution
Dave Berceli

Working in a Land of Passion with a People of Passion
Geoffrey Whitfield

Cerebral Hemorrhage: My Account
Gay Mallon Listfield

Steps Between Life and Death
Knut Brakert

Bioenergetics Applied to Social Clinics
Grace Wanderly de Barros Correia, Jayme Panerai Alves, Gedalva Rapela, Lucina Araujo

Case Study of a Survivor of Political Torture
Maryanna Eckberg

Treatment of Shock Trauma (PSD): A Somatic Perspective
Maryanna Eckberg

Traumatization of a Society: El Salvador's Struggle Continues
Kristan Rosekrans

REVIEWS
Myth and Body by Stanley Keleman
John Conger
Modes of Therapeutic Action by Martha Stark
Angela Klopstech and Myron Koltuv

The Trauma of Cephalic Shock: Clinical Case Study in Which a Portuguese Man-of-War Faces the Jaws of Death and thereby Reclaimes His Bodily Self (his heart and soul)
Robert Lewis

Trauma and Recovery
Marvin H. Berman

Cerebral Hemorrhage and  Friendship
Charles Lustfield

Pruning
Susan Downe

Complex Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder: Putting the Pieces Back Together
Louise Fréchette   

Chiron
Zoé de Frietas

Crying and Violence: An Example of the Use of Bioenergetic Body Work
Alice Kalen Ladas

Working With Sexually Abused People: How to deal with these Clients
Dorte Laschinsky   

Leda
Susan Downe

Emotional First Aid: Healing a Birth-Trauma
Silja Wendelstadt

Vicarious Traumatization: Prevention and Care
Barbara E. Davis

The Unacceptable Horror of the Inconceivable
Pierre Rothschild

REVIEWS            
The Bonds of Love: Psychoanalysis, Feminism and the problem of domination by Jessica Benjamin
Concepcio Garriga i Seto
The Catalan Society Journal
Concepció Garriga i Seto
Relational Perspectives on the Body Eds. Lewis Aron and Frances Sommer Anderson
Lucia Kellar
Therapists at Risk by Laurence E. Heges, Robert Hilton, Virginia Wink Hilton, O. Brandt Caudell, Jr.
Vincentia Schroeter

Brazil with Z & Brasil Com S
Leonardo Christo

The Hysterical Character in the Patriarchal Society and the Question of the Feminine
Eliana Isola Rodrigues Silva           

Live Supervision
Odila Weigand

Bioenergetics with Drug Addicts in Venezuela
Gloria de Sardiñas

A Psychologist in El Salvador
Maryanna Eckberg

Three Poems from a Cycle of Thirteen Entitled: The Father Year
Susan Downe

An Interview with Jean-Marc Guillerme
Jean-Loup Briaudet

Short Term Bioenergetic Therapy with a Population of Religious Men and Women
Mark B. Everson

Works Regarding the Voice: Mental Illness and Bioenergetics
Marisa Orsini

Of One's Own (a poem)
Ellen Green Giammarini

Reflections on Learning and Teaching Bioenergetics
Edsel Stiel

Body Song: How Singing Reveals & Heals
Ron Panvini

On Considering Dual Relationships
Carol Bandini

JOURNAL REVIEWS   
Les Lieux Du Corps reviewed
Maryse Doess
Anima e Corpo
Gabriella Buti Zaccagnini
Forum Der Bioenergetischen Analyse
Robert Lewis

Excerpts from the Acceptance Speech of Virginia Wink Hilton, Executive Director-Elect   

Keynote Address: a Conversation with Al Lowen Exploring His Experiences and Understanding of Bioenergetic Analysis Over the Last Forty Years
Alexander Lowen

From Psychoanalysis, to Gestalt Therapy, to Bioenergetic Analysis: a Personal/Professional Integration
Ed Svasta

A Long Day's Journey From Illusion To Reality
Miki Frank

Bioenergetic Analysis and My Voyage to Self-Discovery: Recovering My Mensch or Where oh Where Is Sancho Panza?
Robert Lewis

Making a Place for the Adolescent Body in Bioenergetic Analysis
Denis Royer

Bioenergetics: a Way of Passion
Jim Miller

The Recovery of Self and the Client/ Therapist Relationship in Bioenergetic Analysis
Robert Hilton

Songs My Mother Taught Me
David Campbell

SHORT ITEMS
The Mask
Jim Alba

The Process of Bioenergetics
Alexander Lowen

It Takes Two to Tango
David Campbell

Fountains of Delight: Joy in the Therapeutic Process
Ronald Robbins

The Bioenergetics Stool: its Use as an Integral Part of the Process in Bioenergetics
Ellen Green

Finding Your Movement
Philip M. Helfaer

Healing in the Therapeutic Process
Jean-Marc Guillerme

Healing the Heart
Stephen T. Sinatra

Surrender to The Joy of Sexuality: a Couples Workshop
Anne Evans

BOOK REVIEWS            
Listening to Prozac: a Psychiatrist Explores Antidepressant Drugs and the Remaking of the Self, by Peter Kramer    
reviewed by MICHAEL R. BRIDGES
The Perfect Fit: How to Achieve Mutual Fulfillment and Monogamous Passion Through the New Intercourse, by Edward Eichel and Philip Nobile    
reviewed by MARY ANNE BRIGHT

SHORT ITEMS                
A Poem, by Michael Marmarinos

Sexuality: From Reich to the Present
by Alexander Lowen

Orgastic Potency: Fact or Fiction
Miki Frank

Castration, Acculturation and “The End of Days”
Ronal Robbins

Reconnecting with the Body: Bioenergetic Treatment for Abuse
Frank Hladky

Sexual Abuse: The Body Remembers Even When the Mind Does Not
Angela Klopstech

When We Are Accused
Virginia Wink Hilton

Orgasm Reflex: That Elusive Experience
Ed Svasta

Sexuality: Support of the Self-Betrayal of the Ego
Robert Hilton

Healing the Sexual Split between Tenderness and Aggression
Bennet Shapiro

The Therapist's Use of Self
Leonard A. Carlino

The Numbskull
by Melanie Wolf and Jane Ahlfeld

BOOK REVIEWS            
Natural Vision Improvement, by Janet Goodrich
reviewed by MARY ANNE BRIGHT
What to Do until Enlightenment: Healing Ourselves-Healing the Earth, by Stuart Alpert
reviewed by FRANK HLADKY
Planetarietà: Program for the Realization of a Project for Planetary Man, by Ezio Zucconi Mazzini and Gilberta Alpa    
reviewed by RONALD ROBBINS
The Power of Countertransference: Innovations in Analytic Technique, by Karen Maroda    
Beyond Countertransference: The Therapist's Subjectivity in the Therapeutic Process,by Joseph Natterson    
reviewed by CHRISTOPH  HELFERICH

SHORT ITEMS                
Three Poems: Dream; Sprichstimme; Poet
by Ellen Green
A Poem: Notes to a Therapist by Karla
by Barbara FINLEY JAMES       

Ego, Character and Sexuality
Alexander Lowen

A New View of Countertransference
Gabriella Buti Zaccagnini

Bioenergetic Work with Children: Experiences in a Child Psychiatric Unit
Arnt W. Halsen

Invisibility and Character
Martin H. Astor

The Eyes and Sexuality: A Personal Tale
Leslie Case

The Armoring of Our Eyes
John Bellis

Fusion and Confusion in Alzheimer's Disease
Edith Fournier

BOOK REVIEWS            
The Golden Guru: The Strange Journey of Shree Rajneesh, by J. D.Gordon
reviewed by ALEXANDER LOWEN
Lifestreams: An Introduction to Biosynthesis, by David Boadella
reviewed by Leonard A. CARLINO
Rhythmic Integration: Finding  Wholeness in the Cycle of Change, by Ronald Robbins     
reviewed by FRANK HLADKY
Heartsearch: Toward healing Lupus, by Donna Hamil Talman
reviewed by LYN MAYO
Jung and Reich: The Body as Shadow, by John P. Conger
reviewed by ROBERT C. WARE

SHORT ITEMS
A Poem: No Forgetting, by Shawna V. Carboni

The Spirituality of the Body
Alexander Lowen

A Backdoor to Grace: The Best We Can Offer
Angel Klopstech

Grounding and Grace
Robert Hilton

Genital Incest Desire and Its Actual Frustration: Core of Character
M. Helfaer

“The Word Made Flesh”
David A. F. Campbell

An Interview
Alexander Lowen

A Valiant Woman
Carol M. Bandini

Symptoms and Diseases of the Respiratory and Gastrointestinal Tracts
John M. Bellis

The Divided Body
David Boadella

A Case of Anorexia Nervosa
Miki Frank

What Is A Bioenergetic Exercise Class? Or: What A Bioenergetic Exercise Class Is Not
Ellen Green

Que Vive L'Amour
Jean-Marc Guillerme

The Long Road to Personhood
Philip M. Helfaer

Max: A Case Study of Spirit and Soma
Stanley Keleman

An Ordinary Journey
>Angela Klopstech

The Case of the Organismic Kick or How to Move a Mountain
Robert A. Lewis

Two Vignettes
Jack B. McIntyre

Nobody Cries in Texas: A Clinical Vignette
Myron R. Sharaf

Reviews        
Passion of Youth, by Wilhelm Reich
reviewed by Robert D. Palmer and Philip M. Helfaer

Opening Address on Narcissism, Sexuality and Culture, and Back to Basics
by Alexander Lowen

The Hated Child: An Aspect of the Borderline Personality
Philip M. Helfaer

Narcissism and the Therapist's Resistance to Working with the Body
Robert M. Hilton

Exhibitionism
Robert A. Lewis

The Abused Child Grows Up and Walks into Our Office
Lyn Mayo

Some Aspects of Narcissism in French-Canadians
Denis Royer

Some Notes About Cancer
Alexander Lowen

Women's Abdomens: Route to Their Sexuality
Michele Dupuy Godin

Sexually Abused Women
Lyn Mayo

Heartbreak, Heartache, and Cardiac Pain: A Study of Coronary-Prone Behavior
Stephen T. Sinatra

Transference/Countertransference with a Borderline Patient
Odila Weigand

Working with Sexual Transference
Virginia Wink Hilton

Essay      
On Uniting the Masculine and Feminine Principles
Virginia Wink Hilton

Brief Reports & Letters     
Marvin H. Berman, Jean-Marc Guillerme

Note: This issue of the journal was published by SOBAB (Société Belge d'Analyse Bioenergétique) in Spring 1987, following the IIBA International Conference 1986 in Belgium.

National Culture and the Body
Alexander Lowen

SECTION I - Morning Communications
J. Barnitt (from USA)
G. Briani (from Italy)
O. Candotti (from Brazil)
T. Ehrensperger (Switzerland)
S. Finlay (Denmark)
U. Sebastian (Germany)

SECTION II - Afternoon Communications

1.Culture - Culture
Rachel ou l'histoire d'une femme déracinée
J. Berliner
Problematique de la sexualité dans la culture arabo-islamique
M. Mahfoudh
Cultural Differences
D. Finlay

2. Analyse Bioénergetique - Bioenergetic Analysis
The various Applications of Bioenergetics
P. Jacquet, J.M.Guillerme
Problems Associated with Interruption or Premature Termination in Bioenergetic Analysis
P. Jacquet

3. Bioénergie - Bioenergetics
Energy and Culture
M. Bermann
Dynamic Morphology
D. Boadella
Some Aspects of the Difference between the Rightand the Left Side of the Body
J. Ponne
The Nature of the Orgasm
O. Jensen
Bioenergetics and Oriental Medicine
J. Munchen

4. Relations d'Objets - Object Relations
L'état-limíte de la culture
G. Tonella
Preverbal Enactment in Therapy
R. Robertson
Biological and psychological Coping Mechanisms
E. Rablen
Bioenergetics and Object Relations Theory, in Relation to Sexuality and the true Self
G. Peck

5. Psychosomatique - Psychosomatic
Bioenergetic Analysis in psychosomatic Medicine. Short-Term Bioenergetic Therapy
T. Ehrensperger
Bioenergetic Therapy as an alternative Treatment for psychosomatic Illnesses
M. Sicherman
Culture and Bioenergetic Applications in Individuals with Heart Disease
St. Sinatra

6. Sexualité – Sexuality
Working with sexual Transference
V. Winck
Des angoisses des 12 premiers mois à la sexualité “de contact"
J. Voyron
Sex and self-Respect II
P. Helfaer
Working bioenergetically with sexuallyabused Clients
L. Mayo

7. Formation – Training
Bioenergetics and Education
D. Goodwin
People becoming Psychotherapists
J. Miller

8. Psychopolitique - Psychopolitics
An Introduction to Psychopolitics and to the Documentary Film "Kisses & Bosses”    
L. De Marchi

A Case of Migraine
Alexander Lowen

Beethoven: Music and the Cosmos
Alexander Lowen

Clinical Applications of Bioenergetic Analysis in Post-Traumatic Stress Disorders
John M. Bellis

Dream  and Character
Jean-Marc Guillerme

Mourning Work in Groups
Angela Klopstech

Individuation and Boundaries
Lisa Rablen

Empirical Research in Bioenergetic Analysis: The State of the Art
Carl H. Shubs

- Review -
The Sexuality of Christ in Renaissance Art and in Modern Oblivion, by Leo Steinberg
Reviewed by Myron Sharaf

What Is Bioenergetic Analysis?     
Alexander Lowen

Two Brief Essays       
Alexander Lowen

Un Moment Therapeutique Priviligie
Jacques Berliner

A Brief Note on Work With a Borderline Patient
Peter Bruce

The Individual in the Couple: Fusion
Philip M. Helfaer

A Case of Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis
Jack McIntyre

Movement and Exploration of the True Self
Lynne Parsons

Perversion: The Struggle Between God and the Devil
Joyce Silver

A Psychosomatic Case Vignette
Ed Svasta

- Review -
Narcissism: Denial of the True Self, by Alexander Lowen
An Appreciation, by Frederick A. Braucher