Institut für Strukturelle Körpertherapie^®
Die Kunst der Aufrichtung

Christine Caldwell PhD, BC-DMT, LPC, NCC, ACS

is the Founder and Chair of the Somatic Psychology Department at Naropa University. Her work began twenty years ago with dance therapy, Aston-Patterning and Gestalt, and has evolved over the years into a form of body-centered psychotherapy that she calls the Moving Cycle. This work emphasizes the pre- and perinatal time, the transformational effect of movement processes, the practice of dying, the opportunities in addiction, and a trust in personal essence. She has taught at several universities, and teaches and lectures internationally.

Dr. Herbert Grassmann

Is a Body Oriented Psychotherapist in his own Praxis. He is also director of the European Association of Somatic Traumatherapy (EAST), Executive Director of the Institut for Core Therapy (SKT) and founder of SKT^® Strukturelle Körpertherapie and TraumaSomatics^®. He trains in several Business Companies and leads presentations, trainings and workshops throughout the world. In the late ‘80s and early 90s he trained in Structural Integration. He is a Certified Hakomi Practitioner and trained with Pat Ogden and Peter Levine in Trauma Therapy. He is the author of several articles and the book: Zwei im Einklang, Kreutz-Verlag, 2004.

His Research focus: development and evaluation of interpersonal neurobiology models and bridging the gap between attachment and dissociation theories in the field of somatically focused model of trauma therapy. Website: http://www.skt-institut.org/

Herbert Grassmann

Rae Johnson

Dr. Johnson is the Director of the Institute for Embodiment Studies, a non-profit educational organization dedicated to advancing interdisciplinary scholarship in embodiment studies. She is the former Chair of the Somatic Psychology Department at the Santa Barbara Graduate Institute, former Director of the Body Psychotherapy Program in the Somatic Counseling Psychology Department at Naropa University and the founding Coordinator of Student Crisis Response Programs at the University of Toronto. Her research and clinical interests include the somatic impact of oppression, embodied critical pedagogy, and feminist somatic research methods.

Professor Frank Röhricht, MD FRCPsych

Consultant Psychiatrist (MD, FRCPsych); Body Psychotherapist; Visiting Professor University of Hertfordshire, School of Psychology and Honorary Professor Centre for Psychoanalytic Studies, University of Essex.

1983–1986 Training in integrative body psychotherapy (predominantly neo-Reichian methods) in the Netherlands and Germany; since 1987 practicing and lecturing as body psychotherapist in various settings (individual and group therapy).
Medical training and qualification (MBBS equivalent) between 1984 and 1989. MD completed in 1995 at Free University Berlin/Germany, (Doctor of Medicine by Thesis): “Body concept and body schema and their relationship with psychopathological symptoms within acute paranoid schizophrenia”. Specialist Training in Psychiatry, Neurology and Psychosomatic Medicine from 1989 – 1997. Since 1997 to date Consultant Psychiatrist, in Newham/East London. 2000 to date Clinical Director for Adult Mental Health East London NHS Foundation Trust. Member of the German Association for Psychosomatic Medicine; Since 2004 chair of the research section of German Association for Body Psychotherapy (part of European Association of Body Psychotherapy / EABP); Since 2005 Patron of the Association for Dance Movement Psychotherapy UK.

With numerous publications in peer reviewed journals one of the leading researchers in the international field of Body Image Phenomenology and Body Psychotherapy in Mental Illness; book publications include co-editor of Handbook of Body Image Research and books on body-psychotherapy; monography from 2000 is the first textbook covering the innovative field of body-oriented psychotherapy in psychiatry. Research focus: development and evaluation of treatment manuals for body oriented, non-verbal psychotherapeutic intervention strategies (anorexia nervosa, somatoform disorders, depression, schizophrenia). Other projects: Transcultural variety of ego-pathology; Neurobiology and prodromal signs of cenesthopathic schizophrenia; Self-harm and long-term outcomes; service evaluation.

Website: www.frank.rohricht.com

Maurizio Stupiggia
Maurizio Stupiggia, psychotherapist. Vice President of the Italian Association for Body Psychotherapy. Professor assistant at Westdeutsche Akademie of Dusseldorf and Guest Professor at University of Bologna in Group theory and technique. Professor of General Psychology at University of Genova. Trainer in Biosystemic psychotherapy and co-founder, with Jerome Liss, of the “Societe Internazionale Biosistemica”. He works as a therapist and trainer in Italy, in some European countries, in Japan, and Latin America.
He is the author of, Il corpo Violato and with Jerome Liss of the publication La terapia biosistemica (Franco Angeli, 1994)

Joop Valstar

Jill van der Aa
EABP Board of directors, General Secretary/Vice President
Jill van der Aa BA, Dip. Ed. worked as the EABP Secretariat from 2001- 2010 and organized the EABP Congresses at Egmond aan Zee (2001) and Askov (2006). She has a background as a teacher, actress and theatre director, organizer of seminars and trainings. She trained in Core Energetics with Bill Solomon and in Bodynamic Trauma work with Erik Jarlnaes. She is now serving on the Board of Directors and is a member of the Publications Committee, the IBPJ Editorial Committee and the Science Committee.

Courtenay Young

Courtenay Young is a Body Psychotherapist, accredited by the European Association of Body-Psychotherapy (EABP). He has been on the EABP Ethics Committee (1992-1994), EABP General Secretary for 7 years (1994-2001), Vice-President, (2001-2002) and President of EABP (2002-2006). He helped establish: the EABP Training Standards; 'The FORUM of Body-Psychotherapy Organisations'; the Scientific Validity of Body-Psychotherapy; the 'Council of National Associations'; the new EABP Membership Criteria and Guidelines; the EABP website; and the EABP Bibliography of Body-Psychotherapy. He was recently made an Honorary Member of EABP at the 2010 AGM in Vienna.

Courtenay Young is a fully accredited and registered psychotherapist with more than 30 years of professional experience. He works in several different modalities, has experience in a variety of clinical settings, and with a wide range of different client groups. He has been actively involved in several professional associations in psychotherapy, leads workshops internationally, edits journals, has written many articles & chapters on psychotherapy, and has written a couple of books, as well as occasionally writing poetry. He has just started up his own publishing imprimatur Body Psychotherapy Publications publishing collections of articles on various topics.

Personal website: www.courtenay-young.com – which contains a complete listing of his articles, access to ordering his books, some of his poetry, etc.

Sheila Butler
S BUTLER

EABP Scientific Committee

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