chairman of the EABP Ethics Committee. One of her specialist areas is trauma work. Her work is influenced by transpersonal aspects and the chaos theory, as well as by somatic development approaches. Will Davis (born 1944) is an American with more than 25 years experience in the psychotherapy field. He is a psychologist who was trained by Charles Kelley in neo- Reichian Radix work. Will developed the Points and Positions techniques, a school of body psychotherapy that is based on functional energy, and he is considered one of the major researchers in the field of plasmatic origins of early character disorders. George Downing (PhD) works at the Salpêtrière Hospital in Paris where he is a chief psychologist in a child psychiatry outpatients’ unit at the hospital. He is also co-director of a research project on the subject of infant development, which is run jointly by the Salpêtrière Hospital and the Harvard Medical School (Boston). Esther Frankel Psychologist and Psychotherapist graduated by the University of Geneva, in 1976, and one of the pioneers to work with Body Psychotherapy in Brazil. She is International Trainer in Biosynthesis and directs the Biosynthesis Training for Portugal and Israel and the Biosynthesis School of Rio de Janeiro (Brazil). She works with trauma and family in Biosynthesis. Esther also works as Adviser for institutions and international organizations. Ulfried Geuter (PhD, born 1950), is an independent practising psychotherapist and scientific journalist in Berlin. He is a private lecturer at the Freie Universität Berlin, where he represents the field of body psychotherapy. He lectures at the Institute for Body Psychotherapy in Berlin. His qualifications in psychotherapy include “Integrative Bio dyna mics” and Jungian psychoanalysis. Michael Heller (PhD /born 1949) was trained by Jean Piaget’s team in Geneva, and he trained with Gerda Boyesen’s team in biodynamic psychology. As an experimental psychologist he specialised first in social psychology and then non- verbal communication. He is currently vice- president of the EABP and chairman of the Scientific Committee. Heller is one of the most important researchers of non- verbal communication at the University of Geneva. Barbara Jakel (M.Phil.) was born in 1954 in Poland, where she graduated in German and education. Her main focus was the link between psychological disorders and language. She was trained as a body psychotherapist by P. Bolen as part of an Emotional Reintegration team. She has many years’ experience in meditation and religious systems, which also contributed towards her change of focus to energetic phenomena in regression and therapeutic communication. Rubens Kignel works as a Bio syn the sis trainer in Brazil (Sao Paulo), Japan and France. He has been a teacher and body psychotherapist since 1980, mainly teaching neo- Reichian work on Biosynthesis and Bio dynamics. Hans Krens (PhD / born 1948), a psychological psychotherapist, is the founder of depth psychology body therapy. He has been the director of the International Academy for Body Therapy (IAB) in the Netherlands, since 1984. Depth psychology body therapy based on is a body-oriented therapy form with its origins in academic principles. From this perspective the significance of prenatal learning is particularly important. Heiko Lassek (born 1957) is a doctor with his own practice, and a fundamental researcher specialising in Life Energy re74 Editorial Information search. In 1979, Heiko Lassek, Dr. Bernd Senf and Prof. Arnim Bechmann established the Wilhelm Reich Initiative Berlin, as well as the Wilhelm Reich journal “emotion”. From 1987 – 1999 he has been the Chairman of the ‘Wilhelm Reich Society for Research into Life Energy Processes’. In February 2000 he became the first Western scholar under Prof. Lu Jinchuan to adopt the approach of merging Western and Asiatic life energy research, both at a high theoretical level and in practice. Peter Levine (PhD) received a doctorate in medical and biological Physics from the University of California in Berkeley. In addition to this he holds a doctorate in Psychology from the International University. Over the past thirty years his primary focus has been “stress and trauma”. He developed a new therapy technique (“Somatic Experiencing”) for treating severely traumatised individuals. Jerome Liss (Doctor of Medicine) is a Professor of Clinical Psychology at the La Jolla University in San Diego, California (European Campus, Lugano, Switzerland) and former Professor of Clinical Psychology at the West deutsche Akademie in Düsseldorf, Germany. He studied medicine at the Albert Einstein College. He is the founder of Bio systemic Psychology. Victor Seidler’s introduction to Reich and body psychotherapy came through meeting Myron Sharaf when he was living in Boston in 1970 as a postgraduate student in philosophy for a year. Over the years he has been influenced and worked with David Boadella, Terry Cooper, Stanley Keleman and Bob Moore. These influences have resonated in the theoretical writing he has been developing in relation to ethics, bodies and emotional life. Ulrich Sollmann (Dipl. rer. soc. / born 1947) practises as a body psychotherapist (bioenergetic analysis / Gestalt therapy) in Bochum, where he provides support for both commercial and non-profit-making organisations in the form of coaching, supervision and organisational development. He is also involved with the executive Boards of the DVBA and DVP at a professional/political level. Clover Southwell (born 1935) lived in an academic atmosphere until the age of 24. In 1973 she first experienced Biodynamic therapy. This affected her quite radically, and has been her passion ever since. Today she is writing a book about Biodynamic therapy. Her intention is to present the depth, coherence and simplicity of Biodynamics, and how it springs from the essential unity of soul and body. Ole Vedfelt (PhD / born 1941) graduated from the C. G. Jung Institute in Copenhagen in 1977, and has been a practising psychotherapist since then. He is also certified in Gestalt therapy, psychodrama and body psychotherapy. He completed four years of training in Biosynthesis with David Boadella. He is currently a training analyst at the C. G. Jung Institute in Copenhagen, member of the International Association for Analytical Psychology and the European Association for Psychotherapy. He is the author of numerous books about the dream and consciousness, in which he incorporates cybernetic models. Susana B. Volosin Sexer (PhD) has a Masters’ Degree in Psychology from the University of Buenos Aires. She is a didactic member of the AEPP (European Association of Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy), and has trained in dance, bodily expression and body therapies. She is a former professor of psychology at the University of Buenos Aires, and works as a professor at the University of Palma, Mallorca. She works as guest trainer at the Institute for Biosynthesis in Heiden.
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