Integrative Body Psychotherapy (IBP) was founded by Dr. Jack Lee Rosenberg, further developed with Diana Asay, a Jungian Analyst, and Dr. Marjorie Rand, and formally presented to the public as a new therapeutic approach in their book, Body, Self and Soul - Sustaining Integration (1985). IBP combines the most effective aspects of Psychoanalysis, Object Relations Theory, Gestalt therapy, Reichian therapy, Self Psychology, Bioenergetics (Bioenergetic analysis), Transpersonal Psychotherapy, Yoga and Eastern theories and practices into a highly efficient implementation system for psychotherapy.

Today there are 14 regional IBP Institutes spanning the globe, including the U.S., Canada, Switzerland, Germany, and Belgium. In Switzerland and Canada, IBP is approved by state authorities as the first method of body psychotherapy. The different IBP Institutes are members of the U.S. Association for Body Psychotherapy (USABP), and 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 1960s, 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) 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 Winnicott (object relations theory). Rosenberg was also part of a supervision group for Self Psychology of Heinz Kohut with Jeffrey Trop, M.D.

Literature

• Babette Rothschild, Marjorie Rand - Help for the Helper: The Psychophysiology of Compassion Fatigue and Vicarious Trauma, W.W. Norton, Nov. 2005
• Edited by Theodor Itten and Markus Fischer: Jack Lee Rosenberg, Celebrating a Master Psychotherapist - A Festschrift in Honor of his 70th Birthday, 2002
• Ed. Christina Caldwell, Marjorie L. Rand, - Getting In Touch: A Guide To The New Body Psychotherapies
• Jane E. Latimer; Beyond the food game - A Spiritual & Psychological Approach To Healing Emotional Eating
• 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
• 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,
• 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)