What is ALEXANDER LOWEN's 

BIOENERGETIC ANALYSIS 

  
The methodological and technical aspects of the psychotherapeutic approach are used as a reference in the training courses on Bioenergetic Analysis, promoted and handled by IIFAB, and are based first of all on the principles stated by Alexander Lowen: he has the merit of having developed an operational method that includes a series of techniques which can be used in Psychotherapy so to allow not only a coherent and systematic approach, but a deeper and complete one embracing the human being in its entirety with his problematic. The Bioenergetic Analysis approaches are definable as complex: they envisage an analysis of the deepest according to a method which goes on including both the psychical and bodily sides. The emerging topics are dealt with going through a trajectory that departing from a mental and affective dimension brings to the bodily involvement and runs also the opposite way. Or indeed, departing from the breathing, from the movement and from the bodily expression, it lets emerge the lived emotional unconscious so to consent the recover and the elaboration in mental and affective levels. Nevertheless, in both cases, the regressive process and the following one of a "second" awareness, are both vigorously stimulated because of the organism's unitary involvement in two levels: the somatic and the psychic. Concerning the methodological approach it has to be said that the fundamental goal is to establish once again the body energy's free movement so to act on energetic/emotional parts present in the patient that may be found at three levels: psychical, emotional and physical. In the physical level the Ego is a mediator between the external and the inner world, between ourselves and other people: during this mediation it is just the Ego who controls the image of himself that he wants to show to the external world and what are the chosen feelings and impulses he wants to express. The interaction between the Ego and the body is acted with a dialectic process where the Ego forms the body through the control exercised on the voluntary muscles. When in a child world a feeling is not accepted, he is compelled to restrain it, for example, through the contraction of the muscles which should be involved in the expression of that emotion. When this inhibition is widely lengthen out, the Ego abandons the inhibited action's control and retires the energy from the impulse. In this way the impulse's control becomes unconscious and this is the reason why the muscle stays contracted.