The Workshop: This workshop looks at the ways in which several specifically body oriented psychotherapy techniques may enhance traditional Gestalt work. Reichean/bioenergetic work provides techniques for recognizing and working with stuck emotional patterns in the body musculature (character structure), while several different approaches to trauma provide ways of understanding and working with stuck patterns in the autonomic nervous system.

We will pay particular attention to choosing appropriate levels of intervention (body, emotion, meaning) in working with clients with different character structures. We will also consider the question of when cathartic work is appropriate and when it is not - a question that students studying Gestalt and truma approaches frequently ask.

Each session will include a combination of didactic material and experiential exercises and practice. We will also show videos illustrating various aspects of this work.

The Workshop Leaders: Jaylynne Chase-Jacobsen, L.C.S.W., is a licensed clinical social worker, certified Gestalt therapist and certified Imago Relationship Therapist. She is a co-director of the Boulder Psychotherapy Institute and has worked with individuals, couples and groups in Boulder for over 20 years. She worked as a member of the Adult Treatment and CAF Teams at Boulder County Mental Health for several years and is currently adjunct faculty in the Transpersonal Counseling Psychology Master’s Program at Naropa University. Her training includes psychodynamic, body oriented and relational therapies. She has trained in bioenergetic work, EMDR and Somatic Experiencing. She works with individuals as well as couples on relationship issues. She also specializes in eating disorders, body image issues and trauma work. She offers individual and group supervision for mental health professionals.

Betty Cannon, Ph.D., is a licensed psychologist, certified Gestalt Therapist and co-founder and co-director of the Boulder Psychotherapy Institute. She has worked with individuals, couples and groups in Boulder for 30 years. She is the author of an internationally recognized book on existentialist therapy, Sartre and Psychoanalysis, and numerous journal articles and book chapters on psychotherapy. She is a member of the editorial boards of three international journals, an internationally known lecturer and workshop presenter, a senior adjunct faculty member in the Transpersonal Counseling Psychology Master’s Program at Naropa University, an adjunct professor at Regis University, and an Emerita Professor of Humanities and Social Sciences at the Colorado School of Mines. Her work combines Gestalt, existential, psychodynamic and body oriented approaches with a special emphasis on interpersonal work and group therapy. She has trained in Reichean, core, and bioenergetic work, EMDR and Somatic Experiencing. She offers individual and group supervision for mental health professionals.

Topics

Overview of Commonalities & Differences between Gestalt, Bioenergetics and Trauma Work. Videos of Perls & Lowen. Gestalt Review. Body Oriented Psychotherapy Overview

Bioenergetic Character Types and Gestalt

Trauma Work, Character Types and Gestalt

Integrating the Three Modalities

Suggested Reading List

Books on Gestalt:

Clarkson, Petrushka. Gestalt Counseling in Action. London: Sage Publications, 1991.

Fagan, Joel and Irma Lee Shepherd. Gestalt Therapy Now. New York: Harper Colophon, 1970.

Feder, Bud and Ruth Ronall. Beyond the Hot Seat. Highland, New York: Gestalt Journal Press, 1994.

Kepner, James I. Body Process: A Gestalt Approach to Working with the Body In Psychotherapy. New York: Gardner Press, 1987.

Korb, Margaret P., Jeffrey Gorrell and Vernon Van de Riet. Gestalt Therapy: Practice and Theory. New York: Pergamon Press, 1989

Latner, Joel. The Gestalt Therapy Book. New York: Gestalt Journal Press, 1989.

Naranjo, Claudio. Gestalt Therapy: The Attitude & Practice of an Atheoretical Experientialism. Nevada City, CA: Gateways Publishing, 1993.

Oaklander, Violet. Windows to Our Children. New York: Gestalt Journal Press, 1988.

Passons, William R. Gestalt Approaches in Counseling. New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1975.

Perls, Frederick, Ralph F. Hefferline, and Paul Goodman. Gestalt Therapy. New York: Bantam, 1980.

Perls, Fritz. The Gestalt Approach and Eye Witness to Therapy. Science and Behavior Books, 1973.
-------------. Gestalt Therapy Verbatim. New York: Bantam, 1972.
-------------. In and Out the Garbage Pail. New York: Gestalt Journal Press, 1992.

Polster, Erving & Miriam. Gestalt Therapy Integrated. New York: Random House, 1974.

Shepard, Martin. Fritz: An Intimate Portrait of Fritz Perls and Gestalt Therapy. New York: E.P. Dutton, 1975.

Smith, Edward W. L., ed., Gestalt Voices. Norwood, N.J.: Ablex Publishing, 1992.

Stevens, John O. Awareness. New York: Bantam Books, 1976.

Zinker, Joseph. Creative Process in Gestalt Therapy. New York: Vintage Books, 1978.


Books Body Oriented Psychotherapy:

Aposhyan, Susan. Body-Mind Psychotherapy: Principles, Techniques, and Practical Applications. Newy York: Norton, 2004.

Breuer, Joseph and Sigmund Freud. Studies in Hysteria (l893-1895). London: Hogarther Press, 1955 (originally published in 1895).

Gendlin, Eugene. Focusing. New York: Bantam, 1981.

Janet, Pierre. The Major Symptoms of Hysteria. New York: Macmillan, 1919.

Kabat-Zinn, John. Full Catastrophe Living: Using the Wisdom of Your Body and Mind to Face Stress, Pain, and Illness. New York: Bantam, 1991.

Kurtz, Ron. Body-Centered Psychotherapy: The Hakomi Method. Mendocino, CA: LifeRhythm Publication, 2005.

Kurtz, Ron & Hector Prestera. The Body Reveals: An Illustrated Guide to the Psychology of the Body. New York: Holt, Rinehart & Wintston, 1976.

Lowen, Alexander. The Betrayal of the Body. New York: Collier, 1967

---------------------. Love and Orgasm. New York: Collier, 1967.

---------------------. Fear of Life. New York: Collier, 1980.

---------------------. Narcissism: Denial of the True Self. New York: Collier, 1983.

---------------------. The Language of the Body. Collier: New York and London, 1971.

---------------------. Bioenergetics. New York: Penguin, 1975.

Pierrakos, John C. Core Energetics. Mendocino, CA: LifeRhythm Publication, 1987.

Reich, Wilhelm. Character Analysis. New York: Farrar, Strauss, and Giroux, 1972.

------------------. The Function of the Organsm. New York: Farrar, Strauss, and Giroux,
1972.

Schore, Allen. Affect Regulation and the Origin of the Self: The Neurobiology of Emotional Development. Hillsdale: Erlbaum, 1994.

Siegal, Daniel. The Developing Mind. New York: Guilford Press, 1999.

-----------------. The Mindful Brain in Human Development. New York: Norton, 2007.


Books on Trauma Work:

Berceli, David. Trauma Releasing Exercises (TRE): A Revolutionary New Method for Stress/trauma Recovery. BookSurge, 2005

Heller, Diane Poole and Laurence S. Heller. Crash Course: A Self-Healing Guide to Auto Accident Trauma and Recovery. Berkeley CA: North Atlantic Books, 2001.

Herman, Judith. Trauma and Recovery. New York: Basic Books, 1992.

Levine, Peter with A. Frederick. Waking the Tiger: Healing Trauma. Berkeley, CA: North Atlantic Books, 1997.

Ogden, Pat, Kekuni Minton and Clare Pain. Trauma and the Body: A Sensorimotor Approach to Psychotherapy. New York & London: W.W. Norton, 2006.

Pearlman, Laurie Anne and Karen Saakvitne. Trauma and the Therapist: Countertransference and Vicarious Traumatization in Psychotherapy with Incest Survivors. New York: Norton, 1995.

Rothschild, Babette. The Body Remembers: The Psychophysiology of Trauma and Trauma Treatment. New York: Norton, 2000.

Scaer, Robert C. The Body Bears the Burden: Trauma, Dissociation and Disease. Binghamton, NY: Haworth Press, 2001.

Shapiro, Francine. Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing: Basic Principles, Protocols, and Procedures. New York: Guilford Press, 2001.

Schore, Allen. Affect Dysregulation and Disorders of the Self. New York: Norton, 2003.

van der Hart, Onno., Ellert R. S. Nijenhuis & Kathy Steele. The Haunted Self: Structural Dissociation and the Treatment of Chronic Traumatization. New York: Norton, 2006.

Van der Kolk, Bessel, Alexander C. MacFarlane & Lars Weisaeth, eds. Traumatic Stress: The Effects of Overwhelming Experience on Mind, Body, and Society. New York: Guilford Press, 1996.