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What is a Structure? Psychomotor Inst. PBSP® Organizations Past Emailings
| Return to Atlanta, GA PBSP Training Page Return to Atlanta Training Flyer Gus B. Kaufman, Jr., Ph.D., Gus sees individuals, groups, couples and families and trains other therapists at his office in Atlanta, GA. A lover of nature and people, Gus has co-founded five non-profit organizations and published many chapters and articles on abuse, healing via body-based interventions, sexual orientation, and other topics. Gus is a people person who also loves hiking, mountain biking, birding, soccer and reading. His latest work towards ending male violence, Retreat From Violence (see RetreatFromViolence.org) integrates PBSP, nonviolence and "beloved community" concepts and practices. Gus co-founded Men Stopping Violence, Inc., a private non-profit agency working to end male violence against women since 1982. His writings include "The Mysterious Disappearance of Battered Women in Family Therapists' Offices: Male Privilege Colluding with Male Violence" published in the Journal of Marriage and Family Therapy and in Secrets in Families and Family Therapy (Norton). He was the principal creator of Stopping Family Violence, a 12 session curriculum for all prisoners (approximately 40,000) in Georgia correctional facilities. Gus has served as a consultant to such organizations as the U.S. Army and Marine Corps, the National Council of Churches, the Seattle Mariners "Refuse To Abuse" campaign and the Center for the Prevention of Sexual and Domestic Violence in Seattle. Dr. Kaufman's work with youth in the Utah correctional system and at the DeSisto School (for acting out adolescents) in MA includes body-based group work focusing on unmet developmental needs and trauma. Home: 682 Elkmont Dr., N.E., Atlanta, GA 30306 (404) 875-0081 His publications on PBSP include: "Childhood Loss And Postural Insecurity: A Theoretical And Empirical Validation Of Pesso System/Psychomotor" and "The Use Of Psychomotor In The Treatment Of Chronic Pain" (also published in Psychotherapy: Theory, Research and Practice and in Dutch translation in Bewegen & Hulpverlening: praktijk, theory end onderzoek) in Moving Psychotherapy: Theory and Applications of Pesso System Psychomotor Therapy , 1991. "The True Core of PBSP: How Do You Learn It? How Do You Teach It?" Proceedings of the Third International Conference on Pesso-Boyden System Psychomotor Therapy Basel: Swiss-German Association for PBSP, 1997. "Creating a Place for Sexual Orientation in PBSP," Proceedings of the Second International Conference on Pesso-Boyden System Psychomotor Therapy, 1996. Body Signals of Childhood Loss: How Relational Deficits and Stress Lead to Tension and Postural Insecurity. Doctoral dissertation, 1982. Gus co-authored a domestic violence videotape (for immigrants from the former Soviet Union). In Russian and English. His article "The Mysterious Disappearance of Battered Women in Family Therapists' Offices," originally a keynote address to the American Family Therapy Association, was published in the Journal of Marital and Family Therapy and in Secrets in Families and Family Therapy, Evan Imber-Black, Ed. New York: W.W. Norton. 1993. His presentations include: "Trauma and Recovery for Women, Men and Society Impacted by Domestic Violence," Sub-Plenary Session with Carole Warshaw, M.D., First International Conference on Domestic Abuse in the Jewish Community, Baltimore, MD, 7/22/03. "Renewal and Reconciliation After Family Violence?" with Laura Davis (author of The Courage to Heal and I Thought We'd Never Speak Again) and Rabbi Drorah O'Donnell Setel, First International Conference on Domestic Abuse in the Jewish Community, Baltimore, MD, 7/21/03. "Using PBSP in the Treatment of Trauma Survivors," Israeli Center for the Treatment of Psychotrauma, Herzog Hospital, Jerusalem, 5/21/03. "The Struggle to End Domestic Violence: Between Justice and Healing," Keynote address, Symposium at the Van Leer Institute, Jerusalem, 5/20/03. "Touch in Psychotherapy: Practical and Ethical Issues," Psychology Colloquium, State University of West GA, 1/24/03. "Getting Young Men Organized" and "Men in the Movement," five-hour trainings for the Washington State Coalition Against Domestic Violence annual conference, Wenatchee, WA 9/22-25/02. "How Unmet Needs and Trauma Show Up in the Body and Behavior and How These Can Be Healed," Hillside Psychiatric Hospital, Atlanta, GA, 7/10/02. "Creating Change in the Work with Men Who Batter," West Virginia Coalition Against Domestic Violence, May 1-3, 2002. (Byrne grant training for battered women's advocates, batterers' intervention, corrections and regional jail staff.) Guest lecturer, Harvard Graduate School of Education, Gender Studies, 4/8/02. "Body-based Psychotherapy," colloquium, Graduate School of Humanistic Psychology, State University of West GA, 2/15/02. "Domestic Violence and Substance Abuse," weeklong course for the Southeastern School for Alcohol and Other Drug Studies, Athens, GA 8/20-24/01. "Treatment of Trauma in Troubled Youth: Milieu and Body-Based Interventions," with Susan Mirow Ph.D., M.D. (Southeast Psychomotor Society, Atlanta, GA 1/27/01; also with A. Michael DeSisto to Children's Justice conference, Seattle, WA 3/27/01.) "Identifying and Stopping Abuse in Interpersonal Relationships," workshop with Julia Perilla, Ph.D. for GA State University Psychology Clinic Continuing Education Series, Atlanta, 3/17/00. "Mad Kids or Bad Kids? Trauma Treatment for Criminal Youth," Fourth International PBSP Conference, Oslo, Norway, 1998. and International Society for Traumatic Stress Studies conference, Washington, D.C., November 1998. "The Yetzer Ha'ra (Evil Impulse) and Family Violence: Thoughts and Techniques to Help Each of Us Face Our Own Yetzer Ha'ra," for From Denial to Dialogue: The Jewish Community Confronts Domestic Violence, Atlanta, GA 2/98. "Homophobia and the Connection with Woman-Battering," Georgia Commission on Family Violence Annual Conference, Macon, GA 9/97. "From Awareness to Action: Creating Peace in Jewish Homes," Second Shalom Bayit Family Violence Prevention Conference, Planner, Presenter ("Interventions in the Workplace") Atlanta, GA 1/96.
"Psychomotor Group for Couples," (with Gus Napier & Gail Hagler) Master workshop at annual conference, American Group Psychotherapy Association, Atlanta, GA 2/95. "Psychomotor in the 90's: Body, Mind and Soul Work," Georgia Psychological Association Midwinter Conference, Amelia Island, Florida, 1/95. Planner and presenter, "Shattered Shalom: Confronting Abuse in the Jewish Home," Jewish Family Service sponsored conference at the Carter Presidential Center, Atlanta, 1/94. |
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