Bioenergetics was developed by Alexander Lowen, M.D. and John
Pierrakos, M.D. (who later went on to develop Core Energetics).
The central concept of Bioenergetics (and Core Energetics) is the
functional identity between the mind and the body:
"There are self-evident truths that need no demonstration.
But, because they are self-evident, they escape our attention. For
example, no one will deny the importance of being alive. We want to
be alive, yet we neglect to breathe, we are afraid to move, we are
reluctant to feel.
"Another self-evident truth is that the personality is expressed
through the body as much as through the mind. An individual cannot
be divided into a mind and a body. Yet our studies of personality
have concentrated on the mind to the relative neglect of the body."
From: Breathing, Movement and Feeling, by Alexander Lowen,
M.D.
See also: Somatic psychotherapy
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