To clarify. I don't 'teach' bioenergetics. I am trained in bioenergetic analysis, which taught me how to bring a specific focus on the body and its energetic processes into the deptth oriented psychodynamic psychotherapy I do. This, www.apa.org/pubs/journals/releases/amp-65-2-98.pdf, is a link to a paper on The Efficacy of Psychodynamic Psychotherapy, by Jonathan Shedler. I do 'teach' bioenergetic exercise classes sometimes, and I sometimes I explain to my patients how bioenergetic exercises can facilitate changes in mind and body-state they are looking for in the short and over the long-term. But **bioenergetic exercise is NOT bioenergetic therapy.** That said, public.tableau.com/app/profile/bireme/viz/analise-bionergetica-en/evidence-map, is a link to the Evidence Map of Clinical Effectiveness of Bioenergetic Analysis.
I watched your videos on trauma and mental health, and you keep mentioning "energy level" and "simple energy function " What do you mean by that? Is energy level the same as your behavior? Sorry, but I can't figure it out and I want to understand what you mean. I'm 70 years old and only a few years ago found out that I've been "raised" by a narcissistic "mother" ( Yeah, I know it's kinda late, but osdd and selective memory loss made sure I was the last one to know) Jay
When I say "energy level," I mean literally how much ATP is available for the processes in your body that require it, which is all of them. In the case of mental health change, it is about whether you have the ATP resources to update the model of yourself in the world that you are carrying around with you, as this is literally the only way you can "change." If you have a bankrupt energy budget in your body, your brain WILL NOT spend the energy to update the model you have. The (unfortunately long) video I made called Mental Health Made Simple - ua-cam.com/video/BfJd6i7WIo4/v-deo.htmlsi=fopciNHOYLt9GfeP - explains the energy question you have and more about what I just explained in the last sentence.
I am/was up recently a behavioural neurologist. Having watched you're vids, i feel a need to react. As much as you are correct with the oudated brain model. I feel the narrative you are pushing is potentially with respect, misubdertood by yourself. Boiling it down to ATP is incorrect. You are ignoring epi genetics & very complex biological interplay. Poly vegal theory REAL theory is complex and still being updated and very relevant. It is just not complete and privides only one of many layers in the physology of mental health. an important part of my own work (lab EEG with psycho active drugs inc psilocybin) incorporated it. I was working alongside clinical therapists and neurologists, psychiatrists & psychologists. My opinion is very much that the body keeps score (essential epigenitics) and the predictive brain. I have read the book, how emotions are made. It's great! I am commenting only to point out current scientific evidence & many scientists would incuding my old lab & clinicians would strongly disagree with your views. Mental health is not simple & trauma rewires and damages the brain. Trauma is also as perceived & and affected by underlying genes & literally inherated trauma & genetic variations and environmental variations in failsafe systems, to put it way too simple terms . It is not just energy and thoughts. Thoygh the play a role. I myself have had lots of therapy and am neurodiverse and was a scientist doing the most current up until 18 mo ago. I hope you dont mind my coment As by all means, i support the re educations on old systems, promotion of geat reads and very relevant systems , such as how emtions are made. How somatic therapy works well and who can benefit and why. I have to push back on the strong eye rolling narrative on 'debunking poly vagal theory' And what 'current science is' and your sole and simplified model of 'just energy' . In my OP that is just as antiquated as the 'lizard brain' Anyways, sorry for the rant. Wish all the best 😊 I appreciate you are a therapist, not a scientist 😊
@kara-ib5nd - Thanks for your engagement. Respectfully, we are looking at different data. I do not agree with the things you are saying because the experts' research and data I am reading and sharing says very different things than whatever work you are referring to does. I rejected those ideas you mentioned when I discovered the 21st century science of brain function and emotion.
@LeahBensonTherapyTampa fair enough, your opinion is your opinion. Mine and my colleagues' data was what formed currect theory medication and practice. We did ketamine and psilocybin through animal to clinical outputs. The lab is still running and actively part of Worldwide's scientific community. I still don't think you understand the science. You're comment high lighted this with a rude remark claiming I'm looking at old data or what ever . But you are a therapist and not a scientist. Epigenics and the effect on the nervous system and mental health are very cutting edge and worth any clinician or practising therapist to look into . I gave up thinking and agreeing everything boiled down to energy and ATP when I was in doing my A levels, which was in the 21st century. If the real science goes over your pls.. check pit epi genetics, it's interesting. Best of luck 👍
@kara-ib5nd - I'm a huge fan of Denis Noble, and first understood the impact of epigenetics on the organism back in 2009, so I'm good there. The old data I'm referring to is reactive brain ideas. Once I was no longer under their sway, everything about how to explain brain function and therapy processes changed. As for ATP...its position as the energy currency of life makes it a first principles thing. Everything else layers on top of it in myriad social realities. To understand that makes understanding mental health simple. I stand by that assertion. I think the limitations of the comment section don't do our discussion any favors because I believe we could have a very productive and nuanced conversation face to face. I am very clear on my position in ways I simply won't dig into on a YT video made for general consumption, or in the comments of such a video. If you'd like to converse, feel free to contact me at leahbensontherapy.com, or let me know how to reach out to you.
@ThomasRichterKoeln - Just like the model of the earth as the center of the galaxy, some models have to die...while they might have had some value for a time, they're more confusing and dangerous than good. Not to mention, they hold back progress.
There is a type of rhetoric where people lead with tearing down a subject, presenting the type of negative over-generalization that is typical of someone upsetting themselves. If you take the time to endure their negativity, they are describing a way of interpreting the subject, not the subject itself. It's exhausting. The broad idea of somatic understanding is in many practices not called therapy and it can be life changing. The rationalizing you are doing is not helpful. It has shock value which the world is exhausted by as we are saturated with it from infotainment media that is forced down our throats.
@KendallEsse - You'll find all the boring-yet-informative details you are looking for in the bibliography, which you'll find in the description. I've done my homework and summarized the information for the people who don't want to. Do your own, and you'll know what I'm not boring the average therapy seeker with.
@@LeahBensonTherapyTampa One way to argue is to start with an over-generalization: this subject is trash. Then you point out the part that you agree with. This is how click-bait and infotainment work. Since the world is saturated with that dishonesty, people are exhausted and turned off by it. That becomes even more annoying when people repeat the over-generalization, without the caveat which degenerates into a black and white argument. Another way to argue is to not over-generalize and to point out a disagreement you have with an idea.
@@KendallEsse - Probably not. Good thing I'm not angry, just passionate. Some people infer that intensity is anger. But that's all it is, inference, not fact. And that's one of the lessons that 21st century emotion science will teach you if you spend the energy to learn it. No one can tell anyone what emotion they are having because emotions do not have fingerprints in the brain or body. (See How Emotions are Made in the bibliograpy in the description) I know my intention, and if you misinterpret my behavior based on your model of the world, then that's on you to correct, not me... You know what they say about assumptions. Thanks for your input. The algorithm loves the engagement.
Thanks, i really like your straight talking
you are teaching bioenergetics. How is the current research when it comes to this method?
To clarify. I don't 'teach' bioenergetics. I am trained in bioenergetic analysis, which taught me how to bring a specific focus on the body and its energetic processes into the deptth oriented psychodynamic psychotherapy I do. This, www.apa.org/pubs/journals/releases/amp-65-2-98.pdf, is a link to a paper on The Efficacy of Psychodynamic Psychotherapy, by Jonathan Shedler.
I do 'teach' bioenergetic exercise classes sometimes, and I sometimes I explain to my patients how bioenergetic exercises can facilitate changes in mind and body-state they are looking for in the short and over the long-term. But **bioenergetic exercise is NOT bioenergetic therapy.** That said, public.tableau.com/app/profile/bireme/viz/analise-bionergetica-en/evidence-map, is a link to the Evidence Map of Clinical Effectiveness of Bioenergetic Analysis.
I watched your videos on trauma and mental health, and you keep mentioning "energy level" and "simple energy function "
What do you mean by that? Is energy level the same as your behavior?
Sorry, but I can't figure it out and I want to understand what you mean.
I'm 70 years old and only a few years ago found out that I've been "raised" by a narcissistic "mother"
( Yeah, I know it's kinda late, but osdd and selective memory loss made sure I was the last one to know)
Jay
When I say "energy level," I mean literally how much ATP is available for the processes in your body that require it, which is all of them. In the case of mental health change, it is about whether you have the ATP resources to update the model of yourself in the world that you are carrying around with you, as this is literally the only way you can "change." If you have a bankrupt energy budget in your body, your brain WILL NOT spend the energy to update the model you have. The (unfortunately long) video I made called Mental Health Made Simple - ua-cam.com/video/BfJd6i7WIo4/v-deo.htmlsi=fopciNHOYLt9GfeP - explains the energy question you have and more about what I just explained in the last sentence.
@@LeahBensonTherapyTampa Thanks! Found a lot of helpful information on your homepage
I am/was up
recently a behavioural neurologist. Having watched you're vids, i feel a need to react.
As much as you are correct with the oudated brain model. I feel the narrative you are pushing is potentially with respect, misubdertood by yourself.
Boiling it down to ATP is incorrect. You are ignoring epi genetics & very complex biological interplay.
Poly vegal theory REAL theory is complex and still being updated and very relevant. It is just not complete and privides only one of many layers in the physology of mental health.
an important part of my own work (lab EEG with psycho active drugs inc psilocybin) incorporated it. I was working alongside clinical therapists and neurologists, psychiatrists & psychologists. My opinion is very much that the body keeps score (essential epigenitics) and the predictive brain. I have read the book, how emotions are made. It's great!
I am commenting only to point out current scientific evidence & many scientists would incuding my old lab & clinicians would strongly disagree with your views.
Mental health is not simple & trauma rewires and damages the brain. Trauma is also as perceived & and affected by underlying genes & literally inherated trauma & genetic variations and environmental variations in failsafe systems, to put it way too simple terms . It is not just energy and thoughts. Thoygh the play a role. I myself have had lots of therapy and am neurodiverse and was a scientist doing the most current up until 18 mo ago.
I hope you dont mind my coment
As by all means, i support the re educations on old systems, promotion of geat reads and very relevant systems , such as how emtions are made. How somatic therapy works well and who can benefit and why.
I have to push back on the strong eye rolling narrative on 'debunking poly vagal theory'
And what 'current science is' and your sole and simplified model of 'just energy' . In my OP that is just as antiquated as the 'lizard brain'
Anyways, sorry for the rant. Wish all the best 😊
I appreciate you are a therapist, not a scientist 😊
@kara-ib5nd - Thanks for your engagement. Respectfully, we are looking at different data. I do not agree with the things you are saying because the experts' research and data I am reading and sharing says very different things than whatever work you are referring to does. I rejected those ideas you mentioned when I discovered the 21st century science of brain function and emotion.
@LeahBensonTherapyTampa fair enough, your opinion is your opinion.
Mine and my colleagues' data was what formed currect theory medication and practice. We did ketamine and psilocybin through animal to clinical outputs.
The lab is still running and actively part of Worldwide's scientific community.
I still don't think you understand the science.
You're comment high lighted this with a rude remark claiming I'm looking at old data or what ever .
But you are a therapist and not a scientist. Epigenics and the effect on the nervous system and mental health are very cutting edge and worth any clinician or practising therapist to look into .
I gave up thinking and agreeing everything boiled down to energy and ATP when I was in doing my A levels, which was in the 21st century.
If the real science goes over your pls.. check pit epi genetics, it's interesting. Best of luck 👍
@kara-ib5nd - I'm a huge fan of Denis Noble, and first understood the impact of epigenetics on the organism back in 2009, so I'm good there.
The old data I'm referring to is reactive brain ideas. Once I was no longer under their sway, everything about how to explain brain function and therapy processes changed.
As for ATP...its position as the energy currency of life makes it a first principles thing. Everything else layers on top of it in myriad social realities. To understand that makes understanding mental health simple. I stand by that assertion.
I think the limitations of the comment section don't do our discussion any favors because I believe we could have a very productive and nuanced conversation face to face.
I am very clear on my position in ways I simply won't dig into on a YT video made for general consumption, or in the comments of such a video. If you'd like to converse, feel free to contact me at leahbensontherapy.com, or let me know how to reach out to you.
It don't feel right what you are talking about. Sounds like selling by destroying working models
@ThomasRichterKoeln - Just like the model of the earth as the center of the galaxy, some models have to die...while they might have had some value for a time, they're more confusing and dangerous than good. Not to mention, they hold back progress.
There is a type of rhetoric where people lead with tearing down a subject, presenting the type of negative over-generalization that is typical of someone upsetting themselves. If you take the time to endure their negativity, they are describing a way of interpreting the subject, not the subject itself. It's exhausting.
The broad idea of somatic understanding is in many practices not called therapy and it can be life changing. The rationalizing you are doing is not helpful. It has shock value which the world is exhausted by as we are saturated with it from infotainment media that is forced down our throats.
@KendallEsse - You'll find all the boring-yet-informative details you are looking for in the bibliography, which you'll find in the description. I've done my homework and summarized the information for the people who don't want to. Do your own, and you'll know what I'm not boring the average therapy seeker with.
@@LeahBensonTherapyTampa One way to argue is to start with an over-generalization: this subject is trash. Then you point out the part that you agree with. This is how click-bait and infotainment work. Since the world is saturated with that dishonesty, people are exhausted and turned off by it.
That becomes even more annoying when people repeat the over-generalization, without the caveat which degenerates into a black and white argument.
Another way to argue is to not over-generalize and to point out a disagreement you have with an idea.
@@KendallEsse - See the bibliography for all the details.
@@LeahBensonTherapyTampa My point is: angry therapist is probably not an effective way to communicate with people.
@@KendallEsse - Probably not. Good thing I'm not angry, just passionate.
Some people infer that intensity is anger. But that's all it is, inference, not fact. And that's one of the lessons that 21st century emotion science will teach you if you spend the energy to learn it.
No one can tell anyone what emotion they are having because emotions do not have fingerprints in the brain or body. (See How Emotions are Made in the bibliograpy in the description)
I know my intention, and if you misinterpret my behavior based on your model of the world, then that's on you to correct, not me... You know what they say about assumptions.
Thanks for your input. The algorithm loves the engagement.