Lowen’s Energy Concept

A Neurobiological Explanation and Redefinition

Autores

  • Christa D. Ventling

DOI:

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

Palavras-chave:

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

Resumo

Alexander Lowen, fundador da psicoterapia bioenergética, deu grande destaque ao trabalho com o corpo. Dentro deste conceito ele incluiu diversas modalidades, variando de exercícios relacionados com ginástica a outros que envolvem posições de stress, levando a pessoa, às vezes, a vivenciar fisicamente uma experiência traumática precoce e a realizar novos insights. Lowen denominou esse processo «energia através do exercício”. No entanto, seu conceito confunde, pois fazer exercícios, em qualquer modalidade, requer energia e não, sintetiza energia – a menos que se suponha a criação ou existência de alguma forma desconhecida. A reflexão que se segue tenta clarificar essa questão, pesquisando a literatura e conclui que a síntese de neuro-hormonios específicos poderia ser responsável pela criação do sentimento especial de elação, experimentado pela pessoa envolvida nesse tipo de exercício.

Biografia Autor

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 N.º 1 (2013)

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