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Here you can get informations about our Association, development
of BP in Serbia (ex Yugoslavia), and about our domestic school
TePsyntesis.
The
Serbian Association for Body-Psychotherapy (hereinafter: SABP.)
is an independent, non-governmental , non-profit and
non-political association which gathers psychologists,
individual psychotherapists of different orientations, medical
doctors and other professionals for the purpose of achieving
common interests in development and advancement of the theory,
practice, education and research in body psychotherapy.
The SABP exists and works in the State of Serbia. The SABP.
cooperates with related national and international
organizations.
After few
decades long preparations for BP in proffesional circles, firtst
SABP was established in 1996, led by Dr sci Ljiljana Klisic.
1998 is founded Yugoslav Association for Body Psychotherapy (YABP).
Our members have been very active in many national and
international Congresses, seminars, researchs, education,
demonstrations, and other activities in developing Body
Psychotherapy.
Amongst its
activities, SABP is section of SDPJ (our NAO) from 1997, section
of EABP from 2004, section of WCBP from 2003, etc. We are
gratefull to all colleagues for their support in developing BP
here.
SABP founders
and officers are:
Prof. Dr.sci
Ljiljana Klisic, spec.Cl.Psych., Director BP Training, ECP
....0638303896; (President)
Elida Faganel
, dipl. Psychologist and BP , ECP ... 2686-155 / 177
Svetlana Vukojevic Deleon, dipl. Psychologist and BP, ECP ...
2686-155 / 177
Jelena Mutavdzic Vojnovic, spec. Clin. Psychologist and BP, ECP…..063
310250
Ana Pekovic Ristovic, dipl. Psychologist and BP, ECP ... 064
2364944
Ljiljana
Jovanovic, dipl. Psychologist, BP, ECP, tel. 063 7047048,
Biljana Zubovic, dipl. Andragogyst, BP, ECP, tel. 0643573894,
etc.
Tepsinteza - YU Training School of
BodyPsynthesis
Founder and
director: Ljiljana Klisic
Joce Jovanovica 7
YU-11040 Belgrade
Serbia
Tel: +381-1126-67357
eklisic@sezampro.yu
www.tepsyntesis.org.yu
School history
Dr Ljiljana Klisic founded TePsynthesis in 1976 in Belgrade,
Yugoslavia. TePsynthesis has evolved from thirty years of
research by Dr. Klisic into drives development and the
relationship between life force and consciousness. It has
trained more than 200 professionals.
Basic theory and concepts
TePsynthesis is a
scientifically-based body-psychotherapy approach which combines
systematic work with the body and the mind-psyche (and in some
cases spirit) to help reduce psychological and psychosomatic
suffering and to help people achieve integration on the somatic,
emotional and spiritual level as well as Power and Bliss
development.
TePsynthesis is an Integrative
Body-Psychotherapy, that combines and
synthesizes:
1. Radix (Charles Kelley)
2. Psychodynamic Psychotherapy
3. Transpersonal Psychotherapy
This combination builds in to a holistic and Humanistic
Psychology approach that works very well, combining several
Radix (body-psychotherapy) techniques with some of the human
development and transferential (& counter-transferential)
aspects of Psychodynamic Psychotherapy and the therapeutic
relationship within a wider Transpersonal Psychotherapy
framework of personal growth and spiritual development.
1. The most influential source of the TePsynthesis is Radix
work, founded by Charles Kelly who was a student of Wilhelm
Reich. Radix is a Body Psychotherapy studies and improves
interactions between
the client/patient's body and mind. It has a DEVELOPMENTAL
MODEL, a theory
of personality, and character typology which relates to the
origins of any
disturbances, as well as using a rich variety of diagnostic and
therapeutic
techniques within the context of the therapeutic relationship.
There have
been several research projects on outcomes and character types.
Radix sits within the field of Humanistic Psychotherapy and has
several
distinct characteristics.
Charles Kelley, a student of Reich's in the early 1950s,
developed a style of work which synthesized Reichian techniques
with methods from various humanistic and growth work approaches.
Kelley defines Radix like re-education in feelings and purpose.
He developed ways of working in groups to enable people to
recover conscious purposiveness and reconnect with the deep
feelings which are blocked by armouring (Kelley 1974). 'Radix'
is Kelley's equivalent for life energy, or what Reich called 'orgone'.
He stressed that Radix work is 'education' rather than
psychotherapy, although many of his followers no longer make
this point. Kelley pays particular attention to developing
Reich's work on the eyes, synthesizing it with the Bates Method
and emphasizing the importance of dissolving 'ocular armouring'
- tensions in and around the eyes which block not only clear
vision, but also good contact and thinking (Kelley 1976).
Radix is still taught and practised around the world, but like
several other psychotherapy schools it has fallen out with its
own founder, who now works independently. In many ways it is a
very traditional form of humanistic Reichian work, but with its
own set of terms, techniques and emphases. In particular, it
focuses on the distinction between the energetic 'instroke' and
'outstroke', and divides neurotic structure into three types:
the blocked instroke (organized around the emotional polarity of
fear/trust), blocked outstroke (anger/love), and blocked
pulsation (pain/pleasure).
Out of this basic, TePsynthesis has grown into an depth
psychological method with all the general characteristics of
body-psychotherapy work – a functional and structural approach
working with character structures, vegetative, pulsation and
subtle energy processes.
2. The integration with many aspects of Psychodynamic
Psychotherapy helps to
enable reparation work on early deficits using applications from
the
theories of Kolberg & Kohut. Other aspects of psychodynamic work
that are
used include ego psychotherapy for deeper analysis and early
relationships
that appear again in the transferential aspects of the
therapeutic
relationship. This early 'developmental' work enables us to
repair, more
successfully and more easily, early schemas of disturbed or
distorted
contact which have been uncovered through the application of
Radix
Body-Psychotherapy techniques.
3. Transpersonal psychology and psychotherapy is the 'fourth
force' in
psychology and enables us to expand our theoretical model into a
wider
framework of further human development. We do not, at this
moment in time in
our school, practically apply any techniques from the various
modalities
within Transpersonal Psychotherapy, but we are developing our
theoretical
model in this direction. Furthermore this connects with and is
in accordance
with the developmental aspects of Maslow's Humanistic
Psychology.
TsPsychthesis thus combines theoretical approaches and some
practical
applications from psychotherapies of the Body (Radix), Mind
(Psychodynamic)
and Spirit (Transpersonal) into a coherent Humanistic whole and
which is in
accordance with recent developments and thinking in some of the
new
sciences.
New concepts
After the experiences the school has gone through in the last
twenty years in Yugoslavia, new theoretical concepts have also
started to emerge based on these older concepts. TePsynthesis
studies and researches the evolution of the basic human
instinctual drives: the instinct for self-preservation
(aggression), and the instinct for procreation of the species
(sexuality). It helps people in this evolution using both verbal
and nonverbal methods and not only on a psychological level. It
is only through the unity of mind and body that a spiritual
dimension opens up and the whole scope of evolution can be
approached. Firstly there is the evolution of primitive
aggression and destruction towards mature power integrated with
a developed value system, to Non-dual Universal Power. Secondly
there is the evolution of primitive sexuality towards Bliss and
supreme Joy.
On the basis of the holographic
paradigm and quantum physics, and in cooperation with the
Faculty of Electrical Engineering at the University of Belgrade,
TePsynthesis is continuing to develop the Psychoanalytic theory
of psychosexual development. Dr. Ljiljana Klisic has also
developed the theories of Orgasm Development and The
Function of Bliss. She has introduced new terms for
different orgasms as a model for the development of
consciousness and a new model for human development. Bliss is
seen by Te-Psynthesis as the most intense positive psychological
experience, which has an important function. The bliss taboo is
deeper and more hidden than the sex taboo. The goal of orgasm
development is to increase the degree of freedom in
decision-making, which happens, step by step, at each subsequent
level of orgasm development. Orgasms are
classified as primitive, immature, perverse, neurotic, blocked,
mature, extended, ecstatic, blissful and non-dual.
In order to
develop orgasm further, a person must learn to increase the
degree of his/her freedom in decision-making. If successful, the
reward is ecstasy. If a deeper and more complex degree is
reached there is a divine reward - bliss.
Dr Klisic has also proposed the
theory of Power Development. In the process of development from
primitive aggression to mature power and towards ultimate
non-dual power, it is necessary to learn to postpone (not to block, suppress or repress) reactions in order to
increase the degree of
freedom in
decision-making. In this process blocking or impulsivity often
happens, the most difficult being integrating surrender with
control and cognition.
Agrasms (a new term suggested by Dr Klisic) are classified as
instinctive, primitively aggressive, destructive, manipulative,
passive, assertive, truly powerful, non-dual universal powerful.
In her opinion, investigation into orgasms and agrasms in Power
or Bliss development gives us a good model to start the
exploration of consciousness and human development.
On the basis of research into instinctual drives development,
Dr. Klisic has proposed the continuation of the psychoanalytic
theory of psychosexual development. She sees the concept of
maturity in psychotherapy as being under-developed and too
dependent on the biological model. In her opinion,
psychoanalysis has connected maturity to genital primacy and the
genital character structure while it is only the beginning of
maturity. After oral, anal, phallic and genital primacy -
well-known Reichian concepts - development has to continue on to
heart and divine primacy.
Dr. Klisic has also put forward a continuation of the Character
Development Theory. To the oral, anal, phallic and genital
character structures she adds heart and divine
non-character. She has connected the genital character to the
beginning of maturity and the ability to surrender to the orgasm
reflex, meaning a freedom from the main blockages. Heart
character means giving primacy to heart reactions, where all
decisions are made from the heart. This is the principle of
love, meaning at a higher level of consciousness. As with
previous character structures, some neurotic tendencies remain.
The heart character is more developed and discovers Bliss that
is often the result of love actions. The most developed
character structure is resolved character: no-character. In this
structure there are no more frozen functions, the flow of energy
is complete. There is unity with the whole universe, total
freedom from blockages and from character armour, the ability to
be in joy and bliss, to radiate it, to become the love
principle, pure consciousness, the only reality there is,
ourselves connected with the divine no-character.
The above are theoretical considerations, which place the
training work in a wider conceptual framework. TePsynthesis uses
an organized system of methods in treatment. It is a systematic
application of defined body-psychotherapy methods with some
innovations. (Dr Klisic is still working on the methods, which
are best for each stage of Power and Bliss Development.) The
approach to each trainee is individual and accepting, with a lot
of support for the stage he or she is at. This attitude,
together with awareness opens the next stages of development
more easily, bringing more pleasure, joy and bliss.
Training description
The training takes four years. The first year is experiential
with group and individual work. The second and third years are
theoretical, methodological, didactic, conceptual, as well as
continuing with the experiential work. The fourth year
emphasizes supervision.
Trainers
ECP holders and trainers are: Dr.
sci Ljiljana Klisic, Clin. Psych. (Director of Training); Elida
Faganel, B.A. Psych.; Svetlana Vukojevic Deleon, B.A. Psych.;
Jelena Mutavdzic Vojnovic, Clin.
Psych.; Ana Ristovic, B.A. Psych.
State of recognition
Tepsinteza
was accredited as a Body-Psychotherapy Training Institute by the
EABP FORUM in March 2005.
Literature - publication - research
Klisic, Lj., Body-Psychotherapy
(To Orgasm and Beyond), a book summarizing all of Dr
Klisic's work to date, Eko – primat, Zemun YU, 1995. Second
enlarged edition: Skripta international, Beograd, 2001. Tirth
enlarged edition: UTPJ, Beograd, 2004.
Klisic, Lj., Body Psychotherapy
in PSYCHOTHERAPY, Eric, University of Medicine textbook,
Belgrade, 2001,2005.
Klisic, Lj., Radix Education, PSYCHOLOGY - Journal of
Serbian Association of Psychologists, Belgrade, 1980
Klisic, Lj., Psychological Growth: Neo-Reichian Approach
New Group Psychotherapies, AVALA, 1980
Mutavdzic, J., Psychoanalysis and Body Psychotherapy,
Congress of the Psychologists of Serbia, Belgrade, publ. 1999
There are also more than 300 introductions, monographs, and
articles in various countries, published lectures and
presentations.
Klisic, Lj., Doctoral research: Evaluation of Successfulness
in Training Psychotherapists for Application of Radix
Psychotherapy Method, Belgrade, 1989
Klisic, Lj., Masters research: Validation of Intervening
Techniques-guided Images and Movements, Belgrade, 1978
Ristovic, Ana, Touch in our ethnical tradition, Uzice,
2001
Milicevic, Nebojsa, Relation of Harmony and Antagonism
Between Soul and Body, 12 EAP Congress publ. 2004