A textbook case

Each month, find here a case study illustrating the richness of Biodynamic Psychology.

Yvonne no longer needs anti-depressants

During a training course in which she is taking part, a highly experienced psychologist with a creative and recognized professional activity expresses the fact that she has been depressed for over a year.

Rosie realizes she has a husband

Rosie is surprised to realize that she feels like the mother of the whole family. He suggests she place the husband at her side and feel what's happening.

Serge's toes are the key - Case study

Serge is an engineer. He has come for help because for the past two years, following the death of his mother, he has been experiencing chaotic bodily symptoms for which the doctors have no explanation....

Henri and the dance of the spheres

Henri's life is colorless. He is dissatisfied with his personal life and his work, which he finds boring. After a few months of therapy, he expresses that he feels without desire, without impulses.

Bernie makes the bottle

Bernie's fetal dilemma. Either I survive, sacrificing my reckless expansion, or I die in this non-containing womb.

Karin gets her hands back

In a training group, the therapist offers to demonstrate how to amplify the breath. Karin offers to demonstrate.

Olivia discovers her mother never loved her

Olivia is a pleasant, pretty young woman of 32. She has great difficulty with her relationships, which are often short and painful. And she finds that, as soon as a man shows her the slightest hint of tenderness, she feels dependent on his presence.

Mourning and life, Silvia's rules return

At a training group for bodymind therapists abroad, Silvia, a 28-year-old therapist, reports that she hasn't had her period for two years and asks if biodynamic psychology has any answers.

Josiane finds her gorilla

Case studyJosiane finds her gorilla During a session, Josiane, a slim young woman, complains of feeling invaded, especially by the gaze of men. She finds it hard to assert herself, whether in hierarchical relationships at work, with colleagues or...

Oscar puts his therapist to sleep

Oscar, from a large family, expresses in therapy that in his family he was the forgotten child. No one showed him any particular sign of interest. But every time Oscar talks about himself, the therapist feels a strong urge to sleep.

Boris won't let her down

Boris, a very strong man, comes because his wife beats him. Shortly before, she stabbed him in the arm with a fork. It's amazing to see this mountain of muscle let himself be beaten by his wife without knowing how to react. Exploring his history, it becomes clear that his father, when he was drunk, would hit his mother, who complained to Boris, crying.

Claudette takes flight

Claudette complains that she can't stand her husband. However, they separated for three months, and she felt abandoned. So she came back, and finds that her state of unease is the same, whether she's with him or without him. She doesn't know which situation would suit her.

Émilie learns to fist bump

Émilie, a woman close to retirement, has relationship problems in the association where she works and has become involved. She is a gentle woman, with tender eyes, who speaks in a soft voice. At her first session, she also talks about the periarthritis in her left shoulder, which she can only move with difficulty, as it is very painful. Over the past two years, she has been prescribed cortisone, acupuncture and mesotherapy, but nothing has helped.

Josée sees double

Josée comes to see a biodynamic therapist because she feels she's going crazy. She has tachycardia, terrible anxiety in her plexus and throat, her eyes are starting to split and she feels as if the top of her skull wants to burst. She explains that she is undergoing a treatment that consists of rolling her back on tennis balls, as she has pain in the lumbar region.

Héloïse rediscovers her potential

Héloïse comes to see us because she can do almost nothing. She can hardly walk, with her body twisted, her left shoulder rolled up and her left leg dragging. She works in advertising, but is on sick leave.