1st Edition
Psychodynamic Foundations of Bioenergetic Analysis Weaving Insight with Intensity through Body-Psychotherapy
Preface by Garry Cockburn to the Book Series Psychodynamic Foundations of Bioenergetic Analysis
Foreword by the Editors
Part 1: Body-Awareness and Human Growth
1.1. Healing Through or With the Body – Opportunities and Limitations of
Self-Regulation (Magdalena and Gustav Glück)
1.2. The Search for Truthfulness and the Pursuit of Self-Actualization
(Christoph Helferich)
1.3. Bioenergetic Analysis between Psychoanalysis and Humanistic Psychology –
Looking Back (Ulrich Sollmann)
1.4. From Drive Orientation to Relationship – The Concept of Character Structures
through the Ages (Christine Pechtl)
Part 2: Body-Work in Practice
2.1. Body-Interventions (Renate Schwenk)
2.2. Group-Body-Psycho-Therapy: Interpersonal Work with and through Groups
(Maria Majce-Egger)
2.3. Body-Psychodynamic Therapy with Children and Adolescents (Carsten Holle)
2.4. Joining and Gilding – Healing Paths for Complex Post-Traumatic Stress Disorders
(Regina Trotz)
Index of Keywords and Index of Persons
Biography
Jens Tasche is a certified social worker (German Diploma) and Bioenergetic Analyst (CBT). He has been working in private practice in Berlin, Germany for more than 40 years.
Dorota Wejner is a Certified Bioenergetic Therapist (CBT) and certified TRE® Provider. She works in private practice in Warsaw, Poland and is a teaching therapist for the Polish training institute. She is a former board member of the Polish Association for Bioenergetic Analysis (2018/2019) and has twenty years of experience as manager, trainer, mediator and change leader.
Carsten Holle is a body-psychotherapist, both in private practice and at a care clinic for psychiatry, psychotherapy and psychosomatics in childhood and adolescence. He is also a lecturer at training institutes for child and adolescent psychotherapists.
Endorsements of the German Edition:
“[...] recommended for psychotherapists of all schools” − Gabriele Eßing, Berlin/Germany; Psychotherapist (Psychotherapie Aktuell 3.2025)
“[…] ideal for trainees“ − Peter Geißler, SFU Vienna; Psychotherapist and Training Analyst (körper−tanz−bewegung 2/2025)
