SAN DIEGO INSTITUTE FOR BIOENERGETIC ANALYSIS
SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE
FOR
BIOENERGETIC ANALYSIS
333 Olive St., San Diego, CA 92103
Telephone (619) 295-8002
an affiliate of the International Institute for Bioenergetic Analysis
POST-GRADUATE
CERTIFICATION TRAINING
PROGRAM
APPLICATION
Visit us on the Internet www.SCIBA.org
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SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE
FOR BIOENERGETIC ANALYSIS
333 Olive St, San Diego, CA 92103
Telephone (619) 295-8002
Dear Candidate:
Enclosed is your application form. As soon as your application is approved, a SCIBA faculty
member will schedule you for an interview. You will be notified of your acceptance into our post-
graduate study program following this interview. In order to start training the following is required:
1. Application form with $50 is a non-refundable administrative fee.
2. Complete the Psychotherapy Experience form and have your Bioenergetic therapist sign
any therapy hours you have completed (*see below)
3. Read the Member Handbook
4. Sign the verification with its ethical and professional standards.
* According to Page 4 of the handbook, you must complete 25 hours of therapy with a
Certified Bioenergetic Therapist (CBT) prior to entering training.
Training is conducted on the semester system consisting of five weekend sessions in the fall
semester and four weekends in the spring semester. The Southern California Bioenergetic Conference
is a long weekend in the spring semester for a total of ten weekends per year. The annual cost for
tuition is $2,475.00 for the nine weekends as well as the cost of the Southern California Bioenergetic
Conference, which is approximately $900.00.
You may enter the training in August of each year. Training weekends are typically the second
weekend of each month, 9AM-5PM, Saturday and Sunday. If fees are not paid by the end of the
semester, a penalty of 10% will be charged. The student will not be allowed to continue into the next
semester until all fees are current.
Thank you for your interest and we look forward to hearing from you soon.
Please send application forms to:
SCIBA Faculty
333 Olive Street
San Diego, CA, 92103
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SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE FOR BIOENERGETIC
ANALYSIS
333 Olive St, San Diego, CA 92103
Telephone (619) 295-8002
TRAINING FEES AND ANNUAL DUES
A. TRAINING FEES
The yearly fee for your training in Bioenergetic Analysis is approximately $2,475.00 or $275 per
weekend. The total cost includes nine (9) 2-day trainings, held one weekend per month. You are
allowed to miss 3 days per year and are required to pay for the missed days plus the cost of a make-up
workshop. A retreat or conference experience is required and the fee is additional. The cost varies
based upon the price of the retreat or conference. Books and articles are not included in fees. Training
fees are paid each weekend and are payable to SCIBA. Conference and/or retreat fees are paid directly
to the organizing committee. Credit cards accepted.
It is our intention to keep costs as low as possible; however, training fees are subject to increase
during the time it takes to complete your certification program. It may be necessary to increase fees,
cancel sessions or blend classes with another institute, such as the Southern California Institute for
Bioenergetic Analysis.
B. ANNUAL DUES
During your training, membership in the local and international institutes is required. Please be
aware that these fees are subject to change. Fees will be billed in August and are as follows:
$78
International Institute for Bioenergetic Analysis
$135
Southern
California
Institute for Bioenergetic Analysis
For questions call SCIBA at (619) 295-8002
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SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE FOR BIOENERGETIC
ANALYSIS
333 Olive St, San Diego, CA 92103
Telephone (619) 295-8002
APPLICATION FOR THE BIOENERGETIC POST-GRADUATE CERTIFICATION PROGRAM
Name:
Address:
City/State/Zip:
Home Phone:
Business:
Email:
Sex:
Age:
Marital
Status:
Degree: License
#:
1. Professional Affiliations (present/past)
2. Educational background, including academic degree(s)
3. If you are currently a student, will you be in a registered intern under supervision by a Bioenergetic
therapist and able to work bioenergetically with clients by the third year of training?
4. Additional Professional Training
5. Professional Experience
6. Previous Therapy (Please include Bioenergetic as well as other types of therapy)
7. Previous contact with Bioenergetics (if therapy, please give name of therapist)
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8. Please include photocopy of your Malpractice Insurance
9. Three (3) letters of reference (addresses & phone numbers) sent directly to the Southern California
Institute for Bioenergetic Analysis. List referrals and contact information.
10. Are you now or have you ever been investigated by an Ethics committee or licensing board of your
professional field? If yes, what was the disposition?
11. Do you know anyone in the training program? What is your relationship?
12. How did you hear about the certification program? Could you provide contact information? May
we thank them for referring you?
Mail application along with $50.00 Non-refundable Administrative Fee to: SCIBA Faculty
333 Olive St, San Diego, CA 92103, (619) 295-8002
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SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE FOR BIOENERGETIC
ANALYSIS
333 Olive St, San Diego, CA 92103
Telephone (619) 295-8002
LIST OF CERTIFIED BIOENERGETIC THERAPISTS (CBT’s)
The following is a list of certified Bioenergetic Therapists in the San Diego area who are approved as
training psychotherapists. The therapist must be a member in good standing with the San Diego Institute of
Bioenergetic Analysis or another IIBA recognized society in California. Prior therapy with a Certified
Bioenergetic Therapist in another county, state, or foreign country is permitted, provided that the therapist was a
member of a society enrolled in the International Institute for Bioenergetic Analysis (IIBA).
Trainees are required to complete a minimum of 25 hours of Bioenergetic Analysis prior to entry into
the first year of training. A minimum of 25 hours in each of the four years of training is required thereafter.
Any questions about these requirements should be directed to the faculty of the Southern California
Institute for Bioenergetic Analysis.
Garet Bedrosian, LCSW, CET, CBT
333 Olive St, San Diego, CA 92103
619-295-8002
Michael Brennan, MA, MFT, CBT
3288 El Cajon Blvd, #2, San Diego, CA 92104
619-282-6911
Paula Buckley, MFT, CBT
PO Box 5164, San Diego, CA 92165
619-525-3498
Mac Eaton, PhD, CBT
318 9th St, # A, Del Mar, CA 92014
858-481-8847
Diana Guest, MFT, CBT
1767 Grand Ave #4, San Diego, CA 92109
858-274-1662
Maggie Locke, MFT, CBT
4506 Adair St, San Diego, CA 92107
619-222-4743
Terri Martin. LCSW, CBT
333 Olive St, San Diego, CA, 92103
619-518-1229
Dan Offner, LCSW, CBT
333 Olive St, San Diego, CA 92103
619-260-1872
Jan Parker, PhD, MFT, CBT
12929 Pomerado Road, Poway, CA 92064
858-679-1558
Carol Russ, PhD
1767 Grand Ave, # 4, San Diego, CA 92109
858-755-8206.
Vincentia Schroeter, PhD, MFT, CBT
PO Box 235738, Encinitas, CA 92023
858-259-2480
Tarra Judson Stariell, MFT, CBT
327 S. Ivy Street, Escondido, CA 92025
760-294-2150
Paul Sussman, PhD, MFT, CBT
3101 4th Ave, San Diego, CA 92103
619-542-1335
Barbara Thomson, PhD, MFT, CBT
1767 Grand Avenue, #4, San Diego, CA 92109
760-944-7448
Bill White, PhD, CBT
833 Dover Drive, #12, Newport Beach, CA 92663
949-548-3115
The above is a list of independent therapists, and some may have a sliding scale. Contact individual therapist to
verify rates and set appointments.
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ANALYSIS
333 Olive St, San Diego, CA 92103
Telephone (619) 295-8002
TRAINING PSYCHOTHERAPY VERIFICATION FORM
Please use this form to verify your therapy hours. At least 25 hours of psychotherapy with a Certified
Bioenergetic Therapist is required to enter the training program. After entering the program a
minimum of 25 hours per year is required to continue the training program. Completion of the training
program requires 125 hours of individual psychotherapy with a Certified Bioenergetic Therapist.
The value of your therapy should not be underestimated. In order to derive the fullest benefit from the
training and to deal with personal issues that arise during the training, it is essential that every student
be in Bioenergetic Analysis. When everyone complies with this condition the training process is more
effective.
Failure to meet these requirements for therapy will result in disqualification from the training program.
Please direct any questions you may have to the training faculty.
Please mail the completed form to the address listed above. A tally of completed therapy hours must
be signed and turned in at the end of each semester.
Name
Therapist
Start date of therapy
Hours completed to date
(May include up to 40 hours prior to start of training)
Therapist’s Signature
Date
(Students are required to make multiple copies of this form.)
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ANALYSIS
333 Olive St, San Diego, CA 92103
Telephone (619) 295-8002
WEEKLY PSYCHOTHERAPY VERIFICATION
(Students are required to make multiple copies of this form.)
Date
Therapist Signature
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ANALYSIS
333 Olive St, San Diego, CA 92103
Telephone (619) 295-8002
IMPORTANT NOTICE ON DUAL-RELATIONSHIPS
People intending to enter the Certification Program of the Southern California Institute for
Bioenergetic Analysis need to understand dual relationships. Dual relationships can be best defined
when one individual is engaged in more than one role with another individual. Dual relationships are
unavoidable in a training situation. For example, one’s therapist might become one’s trainer sometime
during the course of the certification program. Additional possibilities for dual relationships include
supervisory and administrative roles.
It is best that a trainee be aware of the need for flexibility in dealing with these situations. Any
individual who feels that coping with dual relationships is not tenable for them should not enter the
Certification Program.
SCIBA appreciates the difficulty that might result from dual relationships and is willing to address
concerns when they arise. For anyone thinking about entering the Certification Program in order to
receive a Certification as a Bioenergetic Analyst, it is strongly encouraged that the issues of dual
relationships be discussed thoroughly with his/her therapist and the Training Committee before
entering the program.
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A BRIEF HISTORY OF BIOENERGETICS
By Robert Jacques, MA, San Diego Institute
The founder of Bioenergetic Therapy is Alexander
Reich now theorized that chronic tension in the
Lowen, MD, who lives and currently practices in New
muscles served as a form of psychological armoring
York. Dr. Lowen is the author of numerous books,
and thus began the work on the body. Reich was quite
many written for the layperson, on the subject of the
a scientist and through laboratory experiments and as
body and its relationship to emotional health. Dr.
a result of working physically with patients his
Lowen was introduced to body-oriented therapy as a
theories rapidly expanded. He discovered a biological
young man by Wilhelm Reich, MD, an Austrian-born
energy in the organism which he came to call
psychoanalyst who immigrated to the USA in 1939 to
“orgone” and noticed that when this energy is
escape fascism. Reich is the grandfather of this work
constricted by muscular armoring, neurosis results.
now known as bioenergetic analysis.
When the muscular contraction released through
Reich was born to wealthy landowners in
various therapeutic interventions, repressed emotions
Austria in 1897, and actively participated in farming
emerged in a cathartic manner followed by a feeling
their lands. From his early years he was fascinated
of relief, aliveness and even vitality.
with living things and studied farm animals carefully.
Dr. Lowen first met Reich when he was
Eventually he fought in WWI, and returned to Vienna
teaching at the New School Research in New York.
to study medicine. In medical school he became
He was so interested in Reich’s fresh and unusual
acquainted with the work of Sigmund Freud and
views that he entered therapy with him and began to
studied psychoanalysis while he finished his medical
study his work. Eventually Lowen went to medical
degree. A bright, creative thinker, he soon became
school and upon graduation returned to New York
prominent in the budding psychoanalytic field. He
only to find dissension and disaster among Reich and
wrote his first book, The Function of the Orgasm, as a
his followers. Reich was investigated by the Food and
biological and psychological exploration of Freud’s
Drug Administration, which deemed his work a hoax,
theory of libido instinct. Later he wrote, Character
banned and burned his books, and imprisoned him for
Analysis, which attracted considerable attention and is
two years. Reich died in prison in 1957.
still required reading in most psychoanalytic training
So much controversy surrounded Reich and his
programs. He went on to write several more books
work that Lowen and two colleagues, William Waller,
after he made a significant find that lead to his break
M.D., and John Pierakos, M.D., formed a
with psychoanalysis.
psychotherapy practice of their own and called their
Reich had noticed, as a young analyst, that
work bioenergetics after Reich’s discovery of bio-
people with similar personality disorders had similar
energy. Lowen and his colleagues rapidly developed
body structures. Oral personalities seemed
their own contributions to the theory and practice until
underdeveloped and depressed in the body;
bioenergetic therapy differed in significant ways from
compulsive personalities were tight and rigidly
Reich’s original work.
muscled, while hysterics had exaggerated, sexual
Today, bioenergetic therapy has numerous
bodies. One warm day in Berlin where Reich had his
trained therapists throughout the USA, Canada,
analytic practice, he was in session with a compulsive
Europe and South America. Dr. Lowen is the funding
man who had made little progress in therapy. Because
director of the International Institute of Bioenergetic
it was so warm the patient was on the couch with the
Analysis in New York.
top buttons of his shirt open. As the patient discussed
The popularity of bioenergetics is probably
his conflict Reich noticed that the skin at the top of the
due to the increased vitality and well being it can
patient’s chest was becoming mottled and changing
produce. While the body and its structure is the main
colors. Reich broke the cardinal rule of psychoanalysis
focus, much attention is paid to careful verbal analysis
and reached over and applied pressure to upper
to uncover and work through early childhood
pectoral muscles. The patient broke into tears and for
conflicts. Bioenergetic therapy has a special focus on
the first time in his analysis began to feel his
sexual conflicts since our sexuality (desire for
emotions. This experience stirred up so much for the
intimacy) is so central to the personality. Sexual
patient that it took two weeks to integrate the
conflicts are manifested in the body and respond well
breakthrough.
to such a body oriented approach to psychotherapy.
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SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE FOR BIOENERGETIC
ANALYSIS
333 Olive St, San Diego, CA 92103
Telephone (619) 295-8002
WHAT IS BIOENERGETIC ANALYSIS?
Bioenergetics is a way of understanding personality in terms of the body and its
energetic processes. These processes, namely, the production of energy through
respiration and metabolism and the discharge of energy in movement, are the basic
function of life. How much energy one has and how one uses his energy determines
how one responds to life situations. Obviously, one can cope more effectively if one
has more energy, which can be freely translated into movement and expression.
Bioenergetics is also a form of therapy that combines work with the body and the
mind to help people resolve their emotional problems and realize more of their potential
for pleasure and joy in living. A fundamental thesis of Bioenergetics is that body and
mind are functionally identical: that is, what goes on in the mind reflects what is
happening in the body and vice versa…
As we all know, mind and body can influence each other. What one thinks can
affect how one feels. The converse is equally true. The interaction, however, is limited
to the conscious or superficial aspects of the personality. On a deeper level, that is, on
the unconscious level, both thinking and feeling are conditioned by energy factors…
The energetic processes of the body are related to the state of aliveness of the
body. The more alive one is, the more energy one has and vice versa. Rigidity or
chronic tension diminishes ones aliveness and decreases ones energy. At birth, an
organism is in its most alive, most fluid state; at death, rigidity is total, rigor mortis. We
cannot avoid the rigidity that comes with age. What we can avoid is the rigidity due to
chronic muscular tensions resulting from unresolved emotional conflicts.
Every stress produces a state of tension in the body. Normally the tension
disappears when the stress is relieved. Chronic tensions, however, persist after the
provoking stress has been removed as an unconscious bodily attitude or muscular set.
Such chronic muscular tensions disturb emotional health by decreasing an individual’s
energy, restricting his motility (the natural spontaneous play and movement of the
musculature), and limiting his self-expression. It becomes necessary then to relieve this
chronic tension if the person is to regain his full aliveness and emotional well being…
This is Bioenergetics.
_ _ _ _ ALEXANDER LOWEN
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BIOENERGETIC ANALYSIS BIBLIOGRAPHY
The following is a brief bibliography of Bioenergetic literature, including the works of Alexander Lowen and other
recognized leaders in the field. Some of these books out-of-print and may be obtained through Bioenergetics Press, 19802
Old Bellamy Road, Alachua, Florida 32615. Call toll-free at 877-462-4830 or order online, www.bioenergeticspress.com.
For a more extensive bibliography the reader may contact THE INTERNATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR
BIOENERGETIC ANALYSIS, Steinackerstrasse 10, CH-8902 Urdorf Zurich, Switzerland • 41 43 455 91 52 (telephone)
www.bioenergetic-therapy.com e-mail: iiba.schweiz@bluewin.ch
Lowen, Alexander, The Betrayal of the Body, 1969.
Lowen, Alexander, The Language of the Body, 1972.
Lowen, Alexander, Depression and the Body, 1973.
Lowen, Alexander, Pleasure, A Creative Approach to Life, 1975.
Lowen, Alexander, Bioenergetics, 1976.
Lowen, Alexander, The Way to Vibrant Health: A Manual of BioenergeticExercises,
(with Leslie Lowen), 1977.
Lowen, Alexander, Fear of Life, 1980.
Lowen, Alexander, Narcissism, 1986.
Lowen, Alexander, Love, Sex and Your Heart, 1988.
This listing includes other Bioenergetic works and related literature from Reichian, Radix and
Orgonomy, texts that integrate Bioenergetic analysis with various theories and systems.
Baker, Elsworth, Man in the Trap
Boadella, David, Lifestreams
Cassius, Joseph, Ed., Horizons in Bio-energetics
Jacques, Bob, Ed., Borderline and Narcissistic Disorders in Bioenergetic Therapy
Johnson, Stephen, M., Characterological Transformation: The Hard Work Miracle
Johnson, Stephen, M., Humanizing the Narcissistic Style
Keleman, Stanley, Bonding: A Somatic-Emotional Approach to Transference
Keleman, Stanley, Emotional Anatomy: The Structure of Experience
Keleman, Stanley, The Human Ground: Sexuality, Self and Survival
Keleman, Stanley, Your Body Speaks Its Mind
Kelley, Charles, Education in Feeling and Purpose (RADIX)
Kogan, Gerald, Your Body Works: (collection of articles)
Michel, Elizabeth, M.D., Bent Out of Shape
Raknes, Ola, Wilhelm Reich and Orgonomy
Reich, Wilhelm, Character Analysis
Reich, Wilhelm, The Function of the Orgasm
Rosenberg, Jack, Body, Self and Soul: Sustaining Integration
Sharaf, Myron, Fury on Earth: Autobiography of Wilhelm Reich
Smith, Edward, W.L., The Body in Psychotherapy
Ventlin, Crista, Childhood Psychotherapy: A Bioenergetic Approach
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