Michael Coster Heller
Psychotherapist, Lausanne
Book: 
Flesh of the Soul
The body we work with
Bern: Peter Lang, 2001
Livre: 
Psychothérapies corporelles
Fondements et pratiques
Louvain: DeBoeck, 2008
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5.1982: Regards de la psychologie sociale sur le comportement corporel (An outlook of social psychology on bodily behaviour). 1st International conference of Biodynamic Psychology: La psychologie biodynamique aujourd’hui. Bonneuil Matours (France).

5.1984: Le “Jelly Fish” (The Jelly-Fish method). Congress of the French Speaking Association of Bio-dynamic Psychology, at Gargas-France.
5.1986: Transfert: psychologie sociale, psychologie cognitive et psychothérapie (Transfer: Social Psychology, Cognitive Psychology and Psychotherapy). Conference given at Congress of the French Speaking Association of Bio-dynamic Psychology, at Poitiers-France.
5.1988: Deflux et contre-transfert (Deflux and counter–transference). Conference given at the Congress of the French Speaking Association of Bio-dynamic Psychology, at Château Cornu-France.

5.1991: Love abuses (“Lieben Heisst Bereits Missbrauchen”). Conference given at the Congress of the German Speaking Association of Bio-dynamic Psychology, in Germany.
09.1991: Unconscious bodily communication: theory and experimental (scientific) results. Words – Touch – Transference, aspects of the Therapeutic Relationship, 3rd European Congress of Body-Psychotherapy, Lindau (Germany), September 1991.
12.1991: Emotions. Conference presented at the Center of Bio-dynamic Psychology, Paris–France.

10.1993: What do Science and Psychotherapy have to learn about each other? Conference given at the EABP Congress at Strasbourg (France).
10.1993: Unconscious Communication. Conference given at the Congress of the EAPB at Lindau (Germany).

21.5.1994: Aqualide. Conference given at the Congress of the Association of Psycho-Organic Analysis, in Toulouse (France).

18-19.10.1996: Using methods of Analysis of Non-verbal Communication in Psychotherapy. Training group given at the Vegetotherapy Institute of Bjorn Blumenthal, at Oslo (Norway).
8-12.5.1997: Participation at a round table on Self Regulation & Society, at the Congress of the EAPB near Vienna (Austria), organized to commemorate Wilhelm Reich’s 100th birthday.

26-29.6.1997: How to situate phenomena on which psychotherapy focuses in the levels of matter. Presentation in the 7th Congress of the European Association for Psychotherapy (EAP), at Rome (Italy).

29.11.1997: Presenting what the L.A.C. works on at the General Assembly of the Swiss section of the EABP. Basel, (Switzerland).
24-30 June1998: I represent the EABP at the first Congress of the USABP (United States Association of Body Psychotherapy), in Boulder (USA):
  • with Christine Caldwell:  Darwin’s body: current research and clinical strategies from the field of evolutionary biology
  • Animation of a discussion on research and psychotherapy.
  • In a panel Researching the body, and the body in research, animated byChristine Caldwell, with Alice Kahn Ladas, John May, Bessel van des Kolk, and Peter Levine.
2.9.1999: The flesh of the soul, opening of the 7th Congress of the EABP, at Travemünde (Germany).
2.9.1999: Gentle bioenergetics, Eva Reich interviewed by Michael Heller.
4.9.1999: with Bjorn Blumenthal: The body of the body-psychotherapist. The 7th Congress of the EABP, at Travemünde.
13.5.2000: L’organisme vécu (the experienced organism). In Corps et processus psychothérapeutique (Body and psychotherapeutic process). A program of continuous training in psychotherapy, organized by Michael Heller and Marulla Hauswirth for the EABP and Lausanne University, Dorigny (Lausanne).

14.9.2001: Who regulates whom?, part I. Round table for the Margaret Mead Centennial with Mary Catherine Bateson and François Fleury. In the 8th EABP Congress The art of relating, in Egmond Aan Zee, (Netherlands).
15.9.2001: Who regulates whom? part II. In the 8th EABP Congress The art of relating, in Egmond Aan Zee, (Netherlands).
16.9.2001: Round table Conflicts in systems-systems in conflicts. With Susan Schwarwiess (Moderator), Jean Claude Audergeon, Daniel Ofman, Inga teekens, Malcom Brown and Lennart Ollars. In the 8th EABP Congress The art of relating, in Egmond Aan Zee, (Netherlands).
6.11.2001: avec Christiane Lewin, La psychothérapie corporelle et l’E.A.B.P. (Body psychotherapy and the EABP). In La psychothérapie corporelle à l’aube du 3ème millénaire (Psychotherapy at the dawn of the 3d millennium). EABP information day. Toulouse (France).
19.5.2002: The Jelly Fish. Presentation at A Vision of Unity. Biodynamic Psychology Congress, in Freiburg (Germany).
30.10.2002: 6th International Congress of Body Psychotherapy, in Ischia and Naples. Round table, with Bessel van der Kolk among others : The scientific basis of bodypsychotherapy - Recent discoveries: the therapeutic process, how and why it works – Innovative methods in outcome evaluation.
04-06.06.2004: Développement du style personnel. 18 hour course given in a training course for psychotherapists organized by the Ecole Biodynamique of Montpellier.

2004 – Associate editor of “Body, movement and dance in psychotherapy”, published by Routledge, Cambridge (GB).
10.06.2004: Comportement facial dans la relation thérapeutique. A twenty minute talk presented in a round table directed by Professor Ivy Mary Blackburn. 10èmes journées de L’Association Francophone de Formation et de Recherche en Thérapie Comportementale et Cognitive: Troubles de Personnalité et troubles émotionnels: la place du thérapeute: Veyrier du Lac, 10-11 Juin 2004.

9.10.2004: A case study illustrating what can be evaluated by the Postural Dynamics system. Two-hour workshop given at the 9th European Congress of Body-Psychotherapy (EABP): The body at the Centre of Psychotherapy. Marathon, Greece.

9.10.2004: The postural dynamics of a psychoanalytical process. Conference given as main speaker at the 9th European Congress of Body-Psychotherapy (EABP): The body at the Centre of Psychotherapy. Marathon, Greece.
Reserve member of the EABP Ethics commission
11-13.11.2004: Training presentation with George Downing: Nonverbale prozesse in der therapeutischen Beziehung – Theorie und praktische Implikationen. Schloss Greifensee, Zurich, Switzerland.

10.06.2005. Michael Coster Heller: My Body psychotherapy inspired by Bülow-Hansen. Principles, demonstration, discussion. Presentation made at The University College of Oslo, Norway, in the congress on The European Tradition meets the Norwegian Tradition of Body Work.



10.06.2005. Michael Coster Heller: Why look into the Norwegian body tradition? Presentation made at The University College of Oslo, Norway, in the congress on The European Tradition meets the Norwegian Tradition of Body Work.



24.11.2005. Facial expressions of fear, according to Ekman and Friesen. Two hour course given in George Downing’s training on the use of the body in psychotherapy. Greifensee, Zurich, Switzerland.

18.02.2006. Using body methods to work with deep chocks. Continuous training en psychology of urgency organized by the AVP Debriefing web, organized by Carol Gachet. Yverdon (Switzerland).

16-18.03.2007: Place du thérapeute et éthique. 21 hours. Training course for the ‘Ecole Biodynamique’ of Montpellier.
19-20.4.2007. Sabina Spielrein. Scientific meeting organized by Professor Nicolas Duruz and Kaj Noschis at the Faculty of social sciences and politic of Lausanne University: 10 hours.
08.08.2007, Sao Paulo, Brazil: Organism, mind and body. Presenting the System of Organismic Dimensions (SOD) model. With a presentation of Doctor Waldo Hoffmman. Meeting of the Brazilian Association of Psychotherapy (Associação Brasileira de Psicoterapia).

9-11.08.2007, Sao Paulo, Brazil: Presenting the System of Organismic Dimensions (SOD) model. Workshop organized by Rubens Kignel.
15.08.2007, Sao Paulo, Brazil: Presenting the System of Organismic Dimensions (SOD) model. Organized by Rubens Kignel & Betisa Malaman. Conference given at Universidade Paulista, Campus Pinheiros.

17.08.2007, Curitiba, Brazil: Presenting the System of Organismic Dimensions (SOD) model. Conference organised by Rubens Kignel and the Clinica Contacto.
18.08.2007, Curitiba, Brazil: Presenting the System of Organismic Dimensions (SOD) model. Wokshop organised by Rubens Kignel and the Clinica Contacto.

15.9.2007. Case presentation at the workshop of Konrad Oelmann on Body Language in a Psychotherapeutic Process. 6ème congrès de la Société de Médecine Psychosomatique et Psychosociale (SSMP). Centre Médical Universitaire of Geneva.

19.10.2007. Reich – Organismic social psychology. Seminar to honnor the 50th anniversary of Wilhelm Reich’s death, organized by Bjørn Blumenthal, Berit Heir Bunkan and Bjørn Skar ødegaard, in Oslo.
20.10.2007. Round table chaired by Bjørn Blumenthal, with Mary-Anne Knudsen, Asbjørn Faleide, Michael Heller and Per Harbitz. Seminar to honnor the 50th anniversary of Wilhelm Reich’s death, organized by Bjørn Blumenthal, Berit Heir Bunkan and Bjørn Skar ødegaard, in Oslo.
13.06.2008 - 15.06.2008. Diagnostic et pertinence du choix des outils thérapeutiques dans la Psychologie Biodynamique. Specialization course given at the Montpellier school of Biodynamic
10.10.2008 – 14.10.2008 : The SOD model. Training group made for BIO INTEGRAL PSYCHOTHERAPY SCHOOL (BIPS) near Nagoya (Japan).
17.10.2008. How Video Analysis can help young mothers. Conference organized by the BIO INTEGRAL PSYCHOTHERAPY SCHOOL (BIPS) school in Tokyo.
17.10.2008. Presenting Body Psychotherapy. Conference organized by the BIO INTEGRAL PSYCHOTHERAPY SCHOOL (BIPS) school in Tokyo for colleagues, in Tokyo.
18.10.2008 – 19.10.2008. Wilhelm Reich’s pulsation in intra-organismic in inter-organismic regulation systems. Open workshop organized by the BIO INTEGRAL PSYCHOTHERAPY SCHOOL (BIPS) school in Tokyo.

8-11.11.2008. Body Awareness: Where Body Psychotherapy, Neuroscience and Traditional Healing Meet. Congress organized by The Scientific Committee for Body Psychotherapy (ISC) & The European Association of Body Psychotherapy, in Paris. 18 hours.



8.11.2008. Combining different perspectives in body psychotherapy, using the SOD model. In Body Awareness: Where Body Psychotherapy, Neuroscience and Traditional Healing Meet. Congress organized by The Scientific Committee for Body Psychotherapy (ISC) & The European Association of Body Psychotherapy, in Paris.

11.11.2008. Including the body in psychotherapy = a new way of thinking and working with individual dynamics. In Body Awareness: Where Body Psychotherapy, Neuroscience and Traditional Healing Meet. Congress organized by The Scientific Committee for Body Psychotherapy (ISC) & The European Association of Body Psychotherapy, in Paris.
22.04.2009: Member of the EABP CCP to organize the Vienna 2010 congress. Chair: Dr. Elfriede Kastenberger. Membres: Dr Eva Wagner Margetich ; Dr. Regina Hochmair ; Christina Bader ; Bosse Ahrenfelt ; Odegaard, Bjorn ; Michael Heller.
28.03.2009. Le Système des Dimensions de l’Organisme (SDO). Swiss Association of Body-Mind therapies (ASTPC), Onex, Geneva, Switzerland.
22.04.2009: Member of the scientific committee for the organization of the Vienne 2010 EABP congress.
August-December 2009. Five meetings on clinical epistemology organized by Professor Nicolas Duruz.
20 mars 2010. Comment situer les modes d’intervention en psychothérapie corporelle ? (How to situate the types of intervention used in body psychotherapy ?) Main speaker in the following colloquia: La thérapie psychocorporelle à la croisée du corps, des émotions et de l’esprit (Body psychotherapy : between body, emotions and mind). Organized by the French Federation of Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis (FFPP) and the European Association of Body and Relational Therapists (AETPR). Strasbourg, Centre Culturel Saint Thomas.