Lowen’s Energy Concept

A Neurobiological Explanation and Redefinition

Auteurs

  • Christa D. Ventling

DOI :

https://doi.org/10.30820/0743-4804-2013-23-101

Mots-clés :

Lowen’s energy concept, exercise and new energy, energy redefinition, neurohormones

Résumé

Alexander Lowen, fondateur de la psychothérapie bioénergétique, a mis beaucoup d’emphase sur le travail avec le corps. Par cela, il comprenait des formes variées, allant de types d’exercices plus gymnastiques à ceux comportant des positions de stress, amenant une personne à sentir au niveau physique une expérience traumatique plus précoce et ainsi parvenir à de nouvelles intuitions. Lowen nommait ce processus «énergie à travers exercice”. Son concept est, cependant, troublant car faire des exercices sous quelque forme que ce soit demande de l’énergie et ne synthétise pas d’énergie – à moins que quelqu’un suppose la création ou l’existence d’une forme inconnue. Le cadre de réflexion hormones spécifiques peut être responsable de la création de cette sensation spéciale d’élation (extase) expérimentée par la personne engagée dans un tel exercice.

Biographie de l'auteur

Christa D. Ventling

Christa D.Ventling DPhil, lic.phil (M.Sc) got her doctorate in biochemistry at the University of Oxford GB, followed by over 25 years in medically oriented basic research at various University Medical Schools in the USA (Iowa City, IA, The Johns Hopkins University and the University of Maryland, both in Baltimore MD). She then returned to Switzerland to continue in basic research at the Friedrich Miescher-Institute of then Ciba-Geigy, now Novartis, Basel. More than 50 publications resulted from this time. From 1983–1987 she studied psychology at the University of Basel graduating with a M.Sc. degree. She went on for a psychoanalytical and body-oriented training in Bioenergetic Analysis and Therapy (BAT), was certified in 1995, became a member of the teaching staff of the Swiss Bioenergetic Society (SGBAT) in 2000 and a supervisor in 2005. She runs a private psychotherapeutic practice since 1990 and continues her scientific interest in psychotherapeutic topics. She carried out a major investigation on the efficacy of BAT for which she received the Prize for the best Research in 2002 by the US Association for Body Psychotherapy. She is the editor of “Childhood Psychotherapy: A Bioenergetic Approach” and of “Body Psychotherapy in Progressive and Chronic Disorders”, published in 2001 resp. 2002 by Karger, Basel. She has two grown children and three grandchildren.
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Ventling, C. D. (2022). Lowen’s Energy Concept: A Neurobiological Explanation and Redefinition. Bioenergetic Analysis, 23(1), 101–109. https://doi.org/10.30820/0743-4804-2013-23-101

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Vol. 23 No 1 (2013)

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