Name: 27th IIBA International Conference
Start: 2025-10-08T12:00:00-04:00
End: 2025-10-12T07:00:00-04:00
Location: Grand Hyatt - Buckhead (Atlanta)

The Uniqueness of Bioenergetic Analysis: Synthesizing Psychoanalytic and Contemporary Perspectives in the Embodied Practice.
Embodiment in the theory and practice of bioenergetic analysis represents the principle of synonymity of somatic, psychic, emotional, and spiritual dimensions of experience. All of these dimensions are part of the experiential realm. Understanding how experience arises from psychic, somatic, emotional, and spiritual sources is central to the theme of this conference. How damage to body, soul, and psyche manifest in experience and what can heal that damage will be investigated in depth.
Some of the questions to be examined are:
* | the place of abreaction in the healing process;
the purpose of technique - insight, attitude, and behavior change;
* | the role of the person of the psychotherapist in the therapeutic relationship.
We will explore these questions using the lens of contemporary theory and practice in bioenergetic analysis and other approaches to psychotherapy practice.