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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