PBSP® Books & Book Excerpts
see also PBSP® Articles

Books by Albert Pesso "Movement in Psychotherapy; Psychomotor Techniques and Training", New York University Press, 1969 available via email Word file attachment for $20 from the PBSP® International Office or available at Amazon.com, "Experience in Action; A Psychomotor Psychology", New York University Press, 1973 available at Amazon.com  You may read the entire book on this website online by clicking the link above. Co-editor with John Crandell of: "Moving Psychotherapy: Theory and Applications of Pesso System/Psychomotor Therapy", Brookline Books, 1991 available at Amazon.com & from the International PBSP® Office (Contact Us)  Co-author, with Willy van Haver, of: "Het Gekwetste Zelf" (The Wounded Self) Acco (Leuven, Belgium) 1990.  http://users.skynet.be/kern/zelfart.html   Co-Author with Tilman Moser: "Dramaturgie des Unbewusten" (Dramaturgy of the Unconscious) Klett-Cotta (Stuttgart, Germany) 1986.  This book is a German compilation of much of Albert Pesso's first book, "Movement in Psychotherapy", and part of the 2nd book, "Experience in Action". Click on the following link to order this book: http://www.praxis-info.ch/buch-service/pesso.htm Albert Pesso is author of numerous book chapters and articles on Pesso Boyden System Psychomotor, many of them listed on the Articles Page.

For a an extensive bibliographical listing of Albert Pesso's and others' PBSP® books and articles, see see Albert Pesso's Curriculum Vitae

 
 
"Leren Leven en Studeren" ("Learning to Live and to Study")
Added October 2004 

Certified Dutch PBSP® Therapist & Supervisor,  Louis Sommeling, told us that he wrote a book which was published in 2001, "on psychological help to students'.  He said "In it there are examples of individual and group treatment with PBSP® tools from the past 25 years."  Edit. 2001, by van Gorcum, Assen, http://home.tiscali.nl/sommeling/boek.htm (ISBN 90-232-3611-4).

"Handbook of Body-Psychotherapy  / Handbuch der Körperpsychotherapie"
added March 29th, 2004

 Albert Pesso has written a chapter tentatively titled “The Externalized Realization of the Unconscious and the Corrective Experience” for this book edited by Halko Weiss, and Gustl Marlock. This book will come out in German this summer (2004) by the leading academic psychology publisher in the German language, Hogrefe Verlag.  It is composed of about ninety chapters written by approximately sixty people from twelve countries who are prominent in the Body Psychotherapy field worldwide today.  This book is and has been sponsored by the EABP (European Association of Body-Psychotherapy) and its German and Swiss National Organizations.  An American edition entirely translated into English is being planned to come out sometime in 2005. 
Halko Weiss, PH.D., is a licensed clinical psychologist, a founding member and Senior trainer for the Hakomi Institute in Boulder, Colorado; and the International Director of the Hakomi Institute of Europe. He also is the former coordinator for the ongoing PBSP® experiential workshops Al Pesso leads for Hakomi therapists in Heidelberg, Germany. Gustl Marlock is a licensed clinical psychologist, a trainer for Unitive Psychology, and the former president of the German Body-Psychotherapy Association.

"The Flesh of the Soul"
Added February 24th, 2004

The book The Flesh of the Soul was published from the articles of the presenters of the 1999 "the Flesh of the Soul" Conference of the European Association for Body Psychotherapy in Travemunde, Italy.  Albert Pesso was a keynote speaker at this conference; his article, "How the Body Remembers", is among the chapters in this book which was edited by Michael Heller and published in 2001 by Peter Lang (Heller, Michael (ed.): Bern: Peter Lang. 2001 ISBN 3-906764-98-2.  For a review of the book and purchasing information go to:  http://www.eabp.org/flesh.htm.  

Between Stress and Hope
Added August 20th, 2003

The trauma book Between Stress and Hope; From a Disease-Centered to a Health-Centered Perspective, edited by Rebecca Jacoby and Giora Keinan was published by Greenwood Publishing Group October 30th, 2003.  Al Pesso wrote one of the last chapters in this book titled, "Cultivating the Seeds of Hope". The two editors are professors in the Psychology Department of the University of Tel Aviv, in Israel. Ms Jacoby has taken some training in PBSP® with Al Pesso in Israel and NH, USA. This book is available directly from Greenwood Publishing Group, or from Amazon.com. 

Preface to the Dutch Book "Aan Den Lijve" by Marietta van Attekum
Added November 25, 1997

This preface, translated from the original Dutch, was written by Willem van Tilburg, M.D., psychiatrist, psychoanalyst, Professor of Clinical Psychiatry, Vrije University, Amsterdam and Lowijs Perquin, M.D., psychiatrist, Pesso psychotherapist, Trainer in Pesso Psychotherapy.

Excerpt on PBSP® from Encyclopedia of Body-Mind Disciplines
Added January 16, 1997

Brief description of history and essential features of PBSP® to be published by Rosen Press, NY in mid 1977.

Excerpt on PBSP® from "Getting in Touch: A Guide to Body-Centered Therapies"
Added February 13, 1997

Albert Pesso's chapter from the book, edited by Christine Caldwell. The most up-to-date exposition of PBSP® theories and techniques.
See a review of this book on the AHP Perspectives web page: http://www.ahpweb.org/pub/perspective/april2001/gettingintouch.html

"Strukturen des Unbewussten" (Structures of the Unconscious) 

Written by Tilmann Moser, published by Klett-Cotta (Stuttgart, Germany), 1991.  This book written from viewing and reviewing, with psychoanalytic commentary, 12 structures led by Albert Pesso.  For a review in German see http://bernhardmaul.de/Publi1/58.htm.

"Origins & History of PS/P" by Louisa Howe, Ph.D.

Reprint of the chapter, written by Louisa Howe, Ph.D., describing the origins and history of PBSP® (then called PS/P) from the book, "Moving Psychotherapy" published by Brookline Books in 1990.

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