Albert Pesso co-founded Pesso Boyden System Psychomotor with his life partner, Diane Boyden Pesso, in 1961. He is President of the Psychomotor Institute, Inc., Boston, MA, a non-profit organization that promotes PBSP® internationally. He has been Supervisor of Psychomotor Therapy at McLean Hospital in Belmont, Massachusetts; Consultant in Psychiatric Research at the Boston Veteran’s Administration Hospital; and Director of Psychomotor Therapy at the Pain Unit of the New England Rehabilitation Hospital. He has given numerous lectures on PBSP® at universities, hospitals and clinics throughout the United States and Europe.
Al conducts international training programs in PBSP® for practicing psychotherapists in conjunction with the Nederlands Vereniging for Pesso Psychotherpie, Pesso Vereinigung Schweiz/Deutschland (PVSD), and other training organizations in Europe, including the RINO in Holland, and Zist in Germany. Currently, with the help of other PBSP® certified trainers, he is training more than 175 psychiatrists, psychoanalysts, clinical psychologists and other mental health clinicians in long term programs in Norway, Denmark, Holland, Belgium, Switzerland, Germany and the US. Summers, he leads training and experiential workshops at his and Diane Boyden Pesso’s international home base for PBSP® - in Franklin, New Hampshire.
Albert Pesso is the author of “Movement in Psychotherapy”, New York University Press, 1969 and “Experience in Action”, New York University Press, 1973; co-editor with John Crandell of “Moving Psychotherapy: Theory and Applications of Pesso System/Psychomotor Therapy”, Brookline Books, 1991; co-author, with Willy van Haver, of “Het Gekwetste Zelf” (The Wounded Self) Acco (Leuven, Belgium) 1990; co-author with Tilmann Moser of “Strukturen des Unbewussten” (Structures of the Unconscious) Klett-Cotta (Stuttgart, Germany), 1991; and the author of numerous articles on Pesso Boyden System Psychomotor psychotherapy.
He is working on several creative projects including a computer slide and video presentation of theories and techniques, a book on the topic of “hope”, and is collaborating with Diane Boyden Pesso, in the development of multi media training capsules for PBSP® that will facilitate the learning process. Al and Diane, with the assistance of the rapidly expanding network of PBSP® organizations and individuals, are developing systems and materials for safe-guarding and maintaining the essential principles and high standards of PBSP® for future generations.
