What is Pesso Boyden System Psychomotor (PBSP)?
It is a body-based psychotherapy that helps individuals unlock old, deficit-ridden memories and create new memories in their place. How does it work? We put the theater of the mind in the room. By using other individuals or objects to represent loved and negative aspects of figures from the client’s past, we externalize those memories, then, on the stage where that memory is played out, we change the action through role-playing with idealized figures who enact longed-for outcomes. This helps the client satisfy unmet needs of the past and constructs a new, more positive memory. What is the basic theory behind it? That bodily-based experiences in our past are the source of our implicit and explicit memories. In short, they are a record of how we lived in the world in the past and the basis for how we chose to live in the world in the present. How does PBSP differ from traditional psychoanalysis? In psychoanalysis, they say, ‘Look at the deficit; grieve about it; now get past it.’ A lot o
