IBP Integrative Body Psychotherapy

“IBP Integrative Body Psychotherapy” was developed by Jack Lee Rosenberg, Ph.D., MFT. IBP was founded and developed by Jack Lee Rosenberg together with Diana Asay, a Jungian Analyst, and Marjorie Rand, Ph.D.and first presented as a therapeutic form in their book: "Body, Self and Soul - Sustaining Integration". (1985)

In 2007 there are 14 regional Institutes, covering the U.S.A., Canada and european countries (Switzerland, Germany, Belgium). In Switzerland and Canada Integrative Body Psychotherapy IBP has received acceptance by the state authorities as the first method of body psychotherapy. The different IBP Institutes are members of the U.S. Association for Body Psychotherapy (USABP), 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 psychology), 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 1960's, 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 Psychotherapy, 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

Reference to other types of Body-Psychotherapy
In 1963 Jack Rosenberg went to the Esalen Institute, 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) whas 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 Winnicot (object relations theory). Rosenberg was also part of a supervision group for Self Psychology of Heinz Kohut with Jeffrey Trop, M.D.

Literature

 * 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
 * Edited by Theodor Itten and Markus Fischer: JACK LEE ROSENBERG, Celebrating a Master Psychotherapist - A Festschrift in Honor of his 70th Birthday, 2002
 * 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,


 * Ed. Christina Caldwell, Marjorie L. Rand, - Getting In Touch: A Guide To The New Body Psychotherapies,
 * Babette Rothschild, Marjorie Rand - Help for the Helper: The Psychophysiology of Compassion Fatigue and Vicarious Trauma, W.W. Norton, Nov. 2005
 * 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)
 * Jane E. Latimer; BEYOND THE FOOD GAME - A Spiritual & Psychological Approach To Healing Emotional Eating

Related Issues
Marjorie Rand Jack Lee Rosenberg Psychotherapy Body Psychotherapy List of psychotherapies

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