How does Pesso Boyden System Psychomotor work?
Exercises Clients prepare themselves by means of a series of exercises which enhance their sensitivity to sensory-motor and emotional information. Physical complaints and symptoms shift from being alienated phenomena to being a source of valuable information. The exercises promote the group’s cohesion by paying attention to both individual differences and to universality of human needs. The distinct format of the exercises fosters the client’s faith in the possibility of change. The group members are trained to apply ‘accommodation’, a role-playing technique characteristic for Pesso Boyden System Psychomotor therapy. The technique of ‘polarization’, using distinct accommodators representing negative and positive aspects of the same historical person, helps with the disentangling of ambivalence-conflicts. The method offers the client a unique opportunity to experience a broad range of feelings from deep grief to unbounded hatred within a safe limiting symbolic context. Structures A stru
