Psycho-Organic Analysis

Psycho-Organic Analysis



With elements of the Freudian and Jungian Analysis, the theories of
Reich as far as they refer to the body …formed method of
psychotherapy. Paul C. Boyesen has integrated these since 1970
into a complete theory with the derivation of a therapeutic technique."
(Prof. Dr. Uwe Henrik Peters; Dictionary of Psychiatry,
Psychotherapy and Medical Psychology; 5th ed. 1999, 1st ed. 1974;
Wörterbuch der Psychiatrie, Psychotherapie und medizinischen
Psychologie; 5. Aufl.; München, Wien: Urban und Schwarzenberg,
1999; 1. Aufl. 1974)
As a specific method in psychotherapy Psycho Organic Analysis
(POA) has been developed since the early 1970s as a synthesis of
psychoanalysis and bodypsychotherapy. The originator Paul C.
Boyesen based this approach to psychotherapy on the work of S.
Freud, C.G. Jung and W. Reich as far as Reich understood the
significance of the body for psychotherapy.
From his practice being part of the reichian and neoreichian
bodypsychotherapies in the early 1970s Paul C. Boyesen started to
integrate experiences with and concepts of psychoanalysis into his
work e.g. transference, counter-transference, symbolic, imaginary,
real, impulses, primary and secondary.
POA formulates a specific ethic of intervention, specific theories and
methods of intervention e.g. Situation, Expression and Feeling;
Primaryimpuls; The unconscious Familycontracts; The Psycho
Organic Cycle; Active Relaxation; Breathing and Emotions; Residual
and Consequential Energy; Choice of Experience; The Body of the
Word; Sense and Sensation.
Adding specific new aspects and enlarging the understanding of
common basic concepts of psychotherapy POA integrates the
unconscious, projection and transference in a client centered depth
therapy process taking into account the bodily felt sensations and
experience.
Today, due to this development, col eagues have added their
theoretical conclusions derived from their clinical practice to the field
of POA. In consequence the basic principles of POA find their
application in many countries and in various fields like psychotherapy
as wel as counsel ing, coaching, changemanagement,
managementtraining, coupletherapy, prevention and rehabilitation.
Basic Concepts of POA
This presentation is going to mention very briefly some basic
concepts of POA.
The Ethic of Intervention
Psycho Organic Analysts listen to the sense that the client wants to
realise in life and meet these choices with absolute respect.

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The Unconscious
Working with the articulations of the unconscious belongs to the
basic aspects of the analysis e.g. in dreams, imaginations,
movements, actions and the spoken words.
The Residual and the Consequential Energy
The clinical practice of POA shows the ability of the unconscious to
create these two kinds of energies ( movement, activity ).
The Psycho Organic Cycle
It was not by chance that Paul C. Boyesen developed the concept
Psycho Organic Cycle in the 1970s as a generalisation and
differentiation of the Reichian formula: tension - charge - discharge -
relaxation.
The Body of the Word
Words and thoughts are embodied in specific ways. They are
psycho-organic representations of certain levels of energy
(movement, activity). On different levels of the psyche (conscious,
preconscious, unconscious) words and thoughts are forms or
preforms of embodiment.
Sense and Sensation
Actions, Interactions and life experiences can be seen in the light of
sense and sensation. Sense is understood to be related to the
choice of a certain experience, a certain direction in life. Sensation is
the felt quality of the chosen experience (feelings).
Psycho Organic Analysts give attention to the articulations of the
unconscious, to the sense the client wants to give to his or her life, to
the integrations he or she seeks to achieve and thus wants to realize
in his or her personal and social actualisation. It is fundamental to
meet these choices with absolute respect.
Training Institutes and Professional Associations
Within the framework of the Boyesen Institute and the Boyesen
Foundation, Paul Boyesen has established trainingprogrammes in
several countries since 1975. During the 1980s he initiated the
foundation of traininginstitutes for Psycho Organic Analysis and
national professional associations as separate social entities in
reciprocal relation.
The European Association for Psycho Organic Analysis
(EAPOA)
National association had been founded in 1984 in France and 1985
in Germany. Since its foundation in 1986 the European Association
for Psycho Organic Analysis (EAPOA) has been working on different
levels for social representation and identity of professional
psychotherapy.

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Today EAPOA is a network of individual members, national
associations and training institutes in various European countries like
Belgium, Luxembourg, Switzerland, Latvia, Spain, Germany and
France.

The Training Institutes EFAPO and IIPOA
Main training institutes in Europe are EFAPO, EIPOA, and IIPOA. In
addition they are running, partly in cooperation, training programmes
in Brazil, Canada, Lebanon and Russia.
European Association for Psycho Organic Analysis (EAPOA)
www.eapoa.com
École Francais d’Analyse Psycho Organique (EFAPO)
www.efapo.fr
International Institute for Psycho Organic Analysis (IIPOA)
www.i poa.org
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