Michel Heller

Psychotherapist Lausanne

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Michel Heller

 

  • La programmation comme microscope du comportement communicatif corporel
    27.01.2024
    Michel Heller
    Comment l'intelligence artificielle peut nous aider à étudier l'organisation inconsciente du comportement ?
  • Approche organismique des troubles fonctionnels complexes
    15.11.2023
    Michel Heller
    Présentation faite jeudi 16 novembre 2023, durant le symposium de l'Unité de Réadaptation Psychosomatique (UPSO) de la Clinique Le Noirmont, intitulé: Pour une nouvelle psychosomatique: le souffle entre la tête et les jambes.
  • MARGARET MEAD & DES DIFFICULTÉS D’AVOIR UN ENFANT
    02.02.2023
    Michel Heller
    Reprise d'une émission de radio en 1979 sur la RTS. Il s'agit de montrer comment le point de vue d'une anthropologue comme Margaret Mead peut inspirer les psychologues qui soutiennent les parents pour qui encadrer leurs enfants est problématique.
  • Pratiques psycho-corporelles & troubles fonctionnels de l’organisme
    08.12.2022
    Michel Heller
    Présenmtation avec Duc Lê Quang et Yvon Mouster à la journée de formation du Groupement des Psychiatres de Neuchâtel, le 8 décembre 2022.
  • Pratiques psycho-corporelles & troubles fonctionnels de l’organisme
    08.12.2022
    Michel Heller
    Présentation avec Duc Lê Quang et Yvon Mouster à la journée de formation du Groupement des Psychiatres de Neuchâtel, le 8 décembre 2022.
  • 100 ans de psychothérapies corporelles: de l’étude des névroses à celle des troubles de la personnalité, en passant par Wilhelm Reich
    05.11.2022
    Michel Heller
    Présentation pour l'École de Sophro-Bio-Dynamique de Genève, 34ème Journée de formation post-graduée et continue, 5 novembre 2022. Les divers abords thérapeutiques des addictions. Organisé par l'ASMPP. Présentateurs: Jean Bernard Daeppen, Frederico Seràgnoli, Michel Heller, Ayala Borghini et Lucien Gamba. 10 heures.
  • Postface
    30.09.2022
    Michel Heller
    Heller M. (2022). Postface. Dans Rubens Kignel: Résonance. Le corps, une vie à découvrir: 149-164. Les Éditions Biodynamiques. Éloge de l'approche humanistique de Rubens Kignel en psychothérapie corporelle.
  • L'Oeil d'Atoum
    26.09.2022
    Michel Heller
    Légende égyptienne inspirée par R.T. Rundle Clark (1978), Myth and symbol in Ancient Egypt.
  • Descartes on the body-mind split
    01.01.2021
    Michel Heller
    This article, in English, describes Descartes as a founder of scientific medicine, which aims to integrate the body's systems through passions. It summarises a chapter in a forthcoming French volume, published by l'Harmattan: L'organisme intime. Cet article, anglais, décrit Descartes comme un savant qui a milité pour la création d’une médecine scientifique, qui vise l’intégration des systèmes de l’organisme par les passions. Il résume un chapitre d’un ouvrage français à paraître chez l'Harmattan: L'organisme intime.
  • I.5 Conclusion sur Descartes: la différenciation et le Coronavirus I.5.1 Bio- psycho- et socio-logiques : ≠
    11.04.2020
    Michel Heller
    Extrait L'Organisme Intime (2022). Une remarque inspirée par un chapitre sur Descartes, concernant le coronavirus et incompatibilité entre bio- psycho- et socio- logiques.
  • The embodied psyche of organismic psychology: a possible frame for a dialogue between psychotherapy schools and modalities
    17.12.2017
    M. C. Heller
    The article has been published by the International Body psychotherapy Journal (15, 1: 20-50). This version includes a few corrections. I sometimes revise its content. The date of the latest revision is at the end of the title, and the modifications are in blue.
  • Body Psychotherapy from Pierre Janet onwards: an enquiry on the dynamics of psychological states
    22.07.2017
    Michael Coster Heller
    The most recent version of the text is the present one. It began as a mix between preparatory texts and power points used for conferences given during the autumn of 2014, in Lisbon and Utrecht, for body psychotherapists and clinical psychologists. It revisits the evolution of psychotherapy methods from Janet to today, passing through psychoanalysis, behaviorism, neo-reichian therapies, nonverbal communication analysis as well as other points of view, focusing on how psychotherapy and experimental psychology can associate. The text has not been polished. It is still in a raw state. However, it may contain interesting bits and pieces, which is why I publish it on the web. Certain parts have not yet been published. A shorter and more rigorous version of this content should be published in the International Body psychotherapy Journal, at the end of 2015. As I keep modifying this text, I have noticed that it is gradually becoming an Essay on Psychology and Psychotherapy concerning the art of passing from one psychological state to an other.
  • Plato for Psychotherapists
    25.03.2017
    Michel Heller
    This is a rewriting of my chapter on Plato published in Body Psychotherapy: history, concepts & methods, W. W. Norton, 2012. It still needs some editing. Most references are in the volume.
  • Common Ground in Body Psychotherapy: a dialogue and debate
    01.10.2016
    Sheila Butler (ed.) with Sheila Butler, Luisa Barbato, Ulfried Geute,r Michel Heller, Eleni Stavroulaki, Judyth Weaver
    A Follow-up (‘dialogos’ - διάλογος) to the Roundtable presented at the EABP Conference in Athens – in October 2016, published on the EABP website in April 2017.
  • Exposition des peintures de Nicole Clerc
    13.08.2016
    Nicole Clerc-Heller
    L'exposition à lieu au Restaurant de Bois-Genoud Route de Bois Genoud 36 1023 Crissier
  • The System of the Dimensions of the Organism (SDO): a common vocabulary for body psychotherapy
    19.04.2016
    Michael Coster Heller and Gill Westland
    Slightely revised version of: Heller, Michael Coster & Westland, Gill (2011). The System of the Dimensions of the Organism (SDO): a common vocabulary for body psychotherapy. Body, Movement and Dance in Psychotherapy, 6, 1. 43 – 57.
  • CORPS ET ÉVALUATION DE PSYCHOTHÉRAPIES : UN RÊVE A REALISER
    01.03.2016
    Michel Heller
    Description d'une projet d'étude du comportement facial de patients suicidaires effectué au Laboratoire Affect et Communication avec la doctoresse Yvonne Gitnacht et Christine Lessko.
  • System of Dimensions of the Organism
    01.05.2014
    Michael Heller interviewd by Nancy Eichhorn
    Nancy forces Michael to explain his SOD model for psychotherapy as clearly as possible for Somatic psychotherapy Today!
  • EESP-Gestion du stress de l'intervenant
    18.03.2014
    Michel Heller
    Textes pour des cours sur la gestion du stress dans des situations de crises pour assistants sociaux et pédagogues, donnés à l'EESP de Lausanne
  • Science et acupuncture : la sagesse des grands savants et la science des grands sages (text)
    17.10.2013
    Michel Heller
    Présentation faite à la clinique Le Noirmont dans le Jura suisse.Avec ajout de thèmes qui n'ont finalement pas été présentés.
  • Idealism & The Goals of a Psychotherapeutic Process (revized in 2017, August)
    01.10.2013
    Michael C. Heller
    A discussion of why it is so difficult to give a simple listing of the aims of a psychotherapeutic cure. This well known issue is aproached through a discussion of the impact of Plato's Idealism on psychotherapeutic thinking.Some revisions have been added since. Heller, M. C. (2013). Idealism & The Goals of a Psychotherapeutic Process. International Body Psychotherapy Journal, 12, 2, 9-38.
  • Les Psychothérapies corporelles
    02.12.2012
    Interview de Michel Heller avec Serge Prengel
    Présentation de l'ouvrage que j'ai écrit sur les psychothérpies corporelles pour les éditions De Boeck.
  • Introduction au reflex de sursaut (texte)
    18.05.2012
    Michel Heller
    Introduction du travail sur le reflex de sursaut en psychologie Biodynamique.
  • Modes d’intervention sur le stress en thérapie psychocorporelle
    19.11.2011
    Michael Heller
    Système des dimensions de l'organisme et stress. Les modes d'interventions que le psychologue corporelle utilise quand il travail avec le trauma.
  • Elsa Gindler and her influence on Wilhelm Reich and body psychotherapy
    11.04.2010
    Geuter, Ulfried; Heller, Michael Coster; Weaver, Judyth O.
    Published by Body, Movement and Dance in PsychotherapyT, 5, 1: 59 – 73.
  • Micro- et Macro- pratiques en psychothérapie corporelle (15.09.2007):
    15.09.2008
    Michel Heller
    Présentation d’un cas en psychothérapie, pour lequel il était utile d’utiliser se système de codage FACS d’Ekman et Friesen.
  • A topography of the mind
    16.05.2008
    Michael Coster Heller
    This paper distinguishes the self, interpersonal and social regulation systems of an individual organism.It focuses on the analysis of interpersonal resonance, intersubjectivity and secrets for psychotherapy. Revised in 2009. It was printed in the USA Body psychotherapy Journal, Vol 5, No 2. As the journal does not exist anymore, I put here the whole number, so that readers can become familiar with other body psychotherapy litterature.
  • THE JELLYFISH EXERCISES AND THE REICHIAN WORLD OF GERDA BOYESEN
    15.02.2008
    Michael Coster Heller
    My newest (2008) working document on the reichian jellyfish exercises.
  • Introducing the System of Organismic Dimensions (SOD)
    19.08.2007
    Michael Coster Heller
    Power Point presentation used for my conferences in Brazil, in August 2007.
  • Darwin and the animal nature of the human soul
    04.01.2006
    Michael Coster Heller

    Comments on the fuzziness of Darwin’s theory of the human mind and emotions, and of its relevance for contemporary psychology.

     

  • La sexualité en tant que penchant
    01.12.2005
    Michel Coster Heller
    La sexualité comme exemple de propensions instinctive, qui enchaîne une grande diversité de mécanismes hétéroclites intérieures et sociaux pour se réaliser. Suite de Ce que le corps nous enseigne sur la topique de l'âme.
  • What the Face Reveals Basic and Applied Studies of Spontaneous Expression Using the Facial Action Coding System (FACS)
    10.10.2005
    Paul Ekman and Erika L. Rosenberg (Ed.)
    As the book can be downloaded on the web, and as it contains articles written by Veronique Haynal and myself, I include it in the aqualide web site. It contains several highly interesting articles written by colleagues.
  • A topography of the mind (filmed conference)
    01.10.2005
    Michael C. Heller
    The subject is analyzing how two minds can interact. http://youtu.be/wGbCe2E8zjI Film maid for the 2005 Congress of the International Association of Body psychotherapy in Sao Paulo (Brazil). The subject is analyzing how two minds can interact.
  • The Golden Age of Body Psychotherapy in Oslo
    12.06.2005
    Michael Coster Heller
    Presentation made in Oslo in June 2005, at the Oslo University College (HiO) meeting on The European Tradition meets the Norwegian Tradition of Body Work ,10th – 12th of June 2005. The realm of body psychotherapy in Oslo from 1940 to 1960, and the origines of Biodynamic Psychology. Extensively revised in 2009.
  • Marc Archinard et l'organisme en interaction
    02.02.2005
    Michel Coster Heller
    Cet article rend hommage à Marc Archinard, en proposant un modèle qui permet d'éviter les pièges d'une psychosomatique simpliste. Il montre que le rapport psyché & somma ne peut se comprendre qu'à l'intérieur de considérations sur le rapport entre mœurs sociaux et physiologie.
  • Le Platon du Psy
    01.01.2005
    Michel Coster Heller
    Dans ce livre, j’explore quelques thèmes de psychologie et de psychothérapie pour lesquels une relecture de Platon demeure instructive. cet ouvrage essaye de montrer pourquoi aujourd'hui un dialogue en philosophie, psychologie et psychothérapie demeure nécessaire et instructif. L’éditeur initial de cet ouvrage m’ayant fait faux-bon, ce texte est à la recherche d’un éditeur.
  • Depression in Suicide Faces in What the Face Reveals
    01.01.2005
    Michael Heller and Véronique Haynal-Reymond
    Now that it is on the net, I put on my web site the article Veronique Haynal and I wrote on Depression in Suicide Faces and published in What the Face Reveals, published by Paul Ekman and Erika Rosenberg in Oxford University press. The whole volume is in this pdf file.
  • The postural dynamics of a psychoanalytical process
    10.11.2004
    Michael Coster Heller
    This article shows how the tools forged by research on nonverbal communication can usefully complement the vision forged by a psychotherapist of a process she is involved in.
  • Ce que le corps nous enseigne sur la topique de l'âme
    01.06.2004
    Michel Coster Heller
    Cet article différencie de façon explicite les notions de nonconscient et d’inconscient, puis explore les implications de cette distinction pour les théories sur la conscience et pour les théories en psychologie et en psychothérapie.
  • Approches psycho-corporelles et psychiatrie
    13.05.2004
    Michel Coster Heller
    Pourquoi il est si difficile de produire des méthodes thérapeutiques psycho-corporelles utilisables à grande échelle en psychothérapie ?
  • Les différentes peurs distinguées en psycho-neurologie et les dimensions thérapeutiques qui leurs correspondent
    05.01.2004
    Michel Coster Heller
    Peurs du tronc cérébral, du système limbique et du néo-cortex; associées aux mémoires explicites, participantes et implicites de Fogel. Ces distinctions sont associées à des options de psychothérapie.
  • The Organism as Physiology, Body, Flesh & Soul
    01.01.2001
    Michael Heller
    Body psychotherapy in 2000.
  • Body Psychotherapy is a Psychotherapy
    01.01.2001
    Gerda Boyesen
    One of Gerda Boyesen's last article.
  • Dynamiques expressives
    01.02.2000
    Michel Heller
    Exemples du répertoire expressif de patients dépressifs
  • FACES OF SUICIDAL PATIENTS
    01.09.1999
    Michael Heller, Véronique Haynal-Reymond, André Haynal, Marc Archinard & Danièle Chevey-Buchs
    Research report on a study made at the LAC (IUPG) on the facial behavior of suicidal patients
  • Can Faces Reveal Suicide Attempt Risks?
    09.02.1999
    Michael Heller, Véronique Haynal-Reymond, André Haynal
    Nonconscious mimics observed on persons who just made a suicide attempt and their therapist may allow one to know which patients will make an other attempt and which will not.
  • Hommage pour les 100 ans de Reich : L’autorégulation entre organismes humains
    01.01.1998
    Michel Heller
    01.01.1998: Hommage pour les 100 ans de Wilhelm Reich.
  • L'ombre parentale et le complexe d'Œdipe
    06.01.1997
    Michel Coster Heller
    La position parentale impose à l’individu qui l’occupe une série d’exigences assez difficile à agender de façon cohérente. Il s’ensuit un certain nombre d’anxiétés existentielles inévitables que cet article essaye de situer.
  • Notes de lecture: Jérome Liss, Maurizio Stupiggia & coll.
    01.01.1997
    Michel Heller
    Commentaires sur l'ouvrage des auteurs.
  • La normalité sexuelle pour un psychologue psychothérapeute
    03.01.1996
    Michel Coster Heller
    Sexualité & psychothérapie
  • La pratique de l'aqualide
    01.03.1995
    Michel Heller
    Ceci est une de mes premières présentations de l’idée qu’il existe dans l’organisme des mécanismes qui éditent les pensées et perceptions conscientes.
  • Der Jelly-Fish
    01.01.1994
    Michael Heller

    Der Jelly-Fish  oder die reichianische Welt der Gerda Boyesen. In this article I present a detailed description of how jellyfish exercises were develloped by Wilhelm Reich, Gerda Boyesen and myself.

  • DER
    01.01.1994
    Michael Heller
    Übersetzung: Bernhard Maul -Energie & Charakter, Zeitschr. f. Biosynthese u. Somatische Psychotherapie, Bd.9, Berlin 1994
  • Hommage à Hugo Solms
    01.05.1993
    Michel Heller
    Adire,9, pp. 179-181.
  • Transfert & contre-transfert : notions générales
    01.01.1993
    Michel Heller
    Dans cet article je définis les notions de transfert et de contre-transfert de façon à rendre ces notions utilisables en dehors du cadre psychanalytique.
  • The faces of suicide
    01.01.1993
    Michael Coster Heller
    A research report on the facial expressions of patients who recently attempted to suicide.
  • What do Science and psychotherapy have to learn about each other?
    01.01.1993
    Michael Heller
    The transcription of a conference on science and love, given at a conference for body psychotherapists
  • Unconscious Communication
    06.06.1992
    Michael Heller
    Unconscious and nonconscious communication in nonverbal communication
  • L'inconscient
    01.04.1992
    Michel Heller
    Dans le même numéro d'Adire, Paul Fraisse présente sa vision du nonconscient. Grâce à lui, je modifierai ensuite considérablement ma vision de l'inconscient, sans toute fois renier tous ce qui était déjà en place pour cet article.
  • Unconscious Communication
    01.01.1992
    Michael Heller
    Originally: Heller M. 1992: Unconscious communication. In Maul B. (ed), Body Psychotherapy or the Art of Contact. Berlin: Verlag Bernhard Maul and Energy & Character. I presented this paper in the Strasburg EABP congress, and Bernhard Maul’s book presents other interventions as well. Some minor improvements have been included.
  • AIMER C’EST DÉJÀ MÉSUTILISER: ÉTHIQUE, AMOUR ET PSYCHOTHÉRAPIE
    01.01.1992
    Michel Heller
    L'abus en psychothérapie corporelle
  • Les émotions : un parcours littéraire pour psychothérapeutes
    01.12.1991
    Michel Heller
    Transcription peu éditée d’une conférence donnée en décembre 1991 à Paris, qui sera publiée avec les références suivantes : Les émotions. un parcours littéraire pour psychothérapeutes. Dans Besson, Jacqueline (ed.), Manuel d'enseignement de l'École Française d'Analyse Psycho-Organique, tome 2, p. 12—158, 1992. Texte révisé en Mars 2016
  • Postural Dynamics and Social Status, part I
    15.11.1991
    Michael Heller
    PhD research that aims on defining what postural dynamics is about, by analzing video recordings of interactions of people who have the same social status, or who do not have the same status. For private use only. The copyright is mine. The text cannot be sold without my permission.
  • Postural Dynamics and Social Status, part VI
    01.11.1991
    Michael Heller
    PhD research that aims on defining what postural dynamics is about, by analzing video recordings of interactions of people who have the same social status, or who do not have the same status.
  • Postural Dynamics and Social Status, part V
    01.11.1991
    Michael Heller
    PhD research that aims on defining what postural dynamics is about, by analzing video recordings of interactions of people who have the same social status, or who do not have the same status.
  • Postural Dynamics and Social Status, part II
    01.11.1991
    Michael Heller
    PhD research that aims on defining what postural dynamics is about, by analzing video recordings of interactions of people who have the same social status, or who do not have the same status.
  • Postural Dynamics and Social Status, part III
    01.11.1991
    Michael Heller
    PhD research that aims on defining what postural dynamics is about, by analzing video recordings of interactions of people who have the same social status, or who do not have the same status.
  • Postural Dynamics and Social Status, part IV
    01.11.1991
    Michael Heller
    PhD research that aims on defining what postural dynamics is about, by analzing video recordings of interactions of people who have the same social status, or who do not have the same status.
  • LA PRATIQUE DE LA RESPIRATION EN PSYCHOLOGIE BIODYNAMIQUE
    01.10.1991
    Michel Heller
    Décris l'utilisation de la respiration dans la Psychologie Biodynamique de Gerda Boyesen, pour les élèves qui suivent les cours dans l'école d'Analyse Psycho-Organique.
  • Editorial: Adire n. 6
    01.10.1991
    Michel Heller
    État des connaissances en Psychologie Biodynamique française, en 1990.
  • The serotonin model of suicidal propensities
    01.09.1991
    Michael Heller

    A model on how suicidal behaviour could be understood, using studies on the influence of serotonin on behaviour available at the beginning of the 1990s. Although new studies show that more complex physiological mechanisms are involved, some aspects of this article remain relevant.

  • Introducing Postural Dynamics
    11.01.1991
    Michael Coster Heller

    This is a working document which summarizes the basic principles of Postural Dynamics theory, model and coding system. The aim of this model is to code bodily behaviour as a postural structure, which coordinates physiological, psychological and communicative functions of an organism.

  • Facial behavior of Suicidal Patients
    01.11.1990
    Michael Heller & Christine Lessko
    esearch report of the Laboratory of Affect and Communication (L.A.C.), in the Geneva Psychiatric University Institutions.
  • Sexualité et pratique
    01.05.1989
    Michel Heller
    Article résumant ce qui j'ai dit à une réunion de l'association francophone de psychologie biodynamique sur le thème de la sexualité. Publié dans Psychologie Biodynamique, Journal Interne, 17, Octobre 1989 : pages 5-11.
  • Ethique & Ouverture
    01.01.1989
    Michel Coster Heller
    La notion d’ouverture en psychothérapie est associée à la notion de déflux proposée par Gerda Boyesen. Les implications éthiques de cette façon d'aborder l'ouverture sont ensuite discutées.
  • The eye block, schizophrenia and autism: a study on interdisciplinarity (revised in 2008)
    01.01.1987
    Michael Coster Heller
    On the coordination of methods used in Body Psychotherapy, Ethology and studies of nonverbal behavior. The topic is illustrated by what is known on how gaze participates in the communication strategies of autistic and schizophrenic patients.  (last revision:26.07.2005)
  • TRANSFERENCE IN BIODYNAMIC PSYCHOLOGY
    04.11.1986
    Gerda Boyesen, interviewed by Michael Heller
    This interview was published in the review Adire, volume 2, which was a special number on "body & transference"
  • La Psychologie Biodynamique Hier et Aujourd'hui
    01.10.1982
    Michel Heller
    Résumé de ce qu'est la Psychologie Biodynamique proposé à la première réunion de l'Association de Psychologie Biodynamique Francophone, à Montailleur, en 1981.
  • Photo of Bruno Walter, dedicated by him to Hugo Heller in Vienna, 21.II.1921. The original is a part of the material Vienna’s intellectual history inherited by Yvon and Michael Heller.
    21.02.1921
    Bruno Walter

    Photo de Bruno Walter dédiée par lui à Hugo Heller à Vienne, le 21.II.1921. L’original fait parti du matériel sur l’histoire intellectuelle de Vienne hérité par Yvon and Michel Heller.

  • Darwin's letter to Neumayr I
    16.01.1879
    Charles Darwin
    This is the original of a letter adressed by Charles Darwin to Melchior Neumayr, the Viennese archaeologist, written on January 15 1879. This letter is unknown and unpublished in tis original form. It now belongs to Yvon and Michael Heller, who received it from their father Clemens Heller, son of Edwig Theresia Neumayr and Hugo Heller. It was found in a volume of the third edition (1861) of The Origin of Species, which contains numerous manuscript corrections probably made by Charles Darwin. Eric Brian (personal communication) suggests that the volume was probably used for the first German translation of The Origin of Species, made in Heidelberg
  • Darwin's letter to Neumayr III
    15.01.1879
    Charles Darwin
    This is the original of Charles Darwin’s letter to Melchior Neumayr, the Viennese archaeologist, written on January 15 1879. It now belongs to Yvon and Michael Heller, who received it from their father Clemens Heller, son of Edwig Theresia Neumayr and Hugo Heller. It was found in a volume of the third edition (1861) of The Origin of Species, which contains numerous manuscript corrections probably made by Charles Darwin. Eric Brian (personal communication) suggests that the volume was probably used for the first German translation of The Origin of Species, made in Heidelberg.
  • Darwin's letter to Neumayr II
    15.01.1879
    Charles Darwin
    This is the original of Charles Darwin’s letter to Melchior Neumayr, the Viennese archaeologist, written on January 15 1879. It now belongs to Yvon and Michael Heller, who received it from their father Clemens Heller, son of Edwig Theresia Neumayr and Hugo Heller. It was found in a volume of the third edition (1861) of The Origin of Species, which contains numerous manuscript corrections probably made by Charles Darwin. Eric Brian (personal communication) suggests that the volume was probably used for the first German translation of The Origin of Species, made in Heidelberg.

News

  • For a new psychosomatic: what breaths between head and legs
    Psychotherapy of an organism (presentation & workshop) Symposium of the Le Noirmont ... more info
  • Michel Heller is interviewed by Helen Payne on body psychotherapy and research
    On a life trying to understand individuals as an organismic system, in which psychological, ... more info
  • Michel Heller (2022). L’organisme intime. Approches psycho-corporelles des troubles fonctionnels. Paris : L’Harmattan.
    The Intimate Organism is an analysis of the use of mind-body approaches to treat patients who ... more info

Quotes

  • Pierre Janet:
    «More generally, can we precisely separate physiological functions and psychological functions? Neuropathic disorders [...] are the expression of the activity of the entire organism, of its growth, its evolution, its involution. [...] Psychology is not independent of physiology, but it requires a more delicate, deeper physiology than that of digestion or respiration. The study of nervous and mental illnesses, far from being able to do without physiological and medical knowledge, will increasingly require much more in-depth physiology and medicine.” » (Pierre Janet, 1923, La médecine psychologique, III.II.2, p. 151)
  • Lamarck: Biological flexibility
    «Le point essentiel à considérer est que, dans tout système d’organisation animale, la nature ne peut avoir qu’un seul moyen à sa disposition, pour faire exécuter aux différents organes les fonctions qui leur sont propres.» (Jean-Baptiste de Lamarck, 1809, Philosophie Zoologique, III, Introduction, p. 464) NB The english translation does not accept this point of view.
  • The soul according to Descartes
    « Art. 30. The soul is in a very real sense joined to the whole of body, and that it cannot stritctly speeking be said to be in one of its parts to the exclusion of the rest, first because the body is a unity and in a sens indivisible, on account of the disposition of its organs, which are so closely connected with one an other that, when one of them is removed, the whole body is rendered defective; and secondly, because the soul is of a nature that has no relation to extension ot to the dimensions or other properties of the matter of which the body is constituted, but relates only to the total combintation of the body's organs.» (René Descartes, 1649, The Passions of the Soul, p. 207, translation by Michael Moriatry)
  • "Good sense is the most evenly shared thing in the world,"
    "for each of us thinks he is so well endowed with it that even those who are the hardest to please in all other respects are not in the habit of wanting more than they have." (Descartes, Discourse on the Method of Properly Conducting One's Reason and of Seeking the Truth in the Sciences I. Translator: F. E. Sutcliffe)
  • As man thrived in different regions of the globe, he increased in number, established in society with fellow creatures,
    "and finally progressed and became civilized, his delights, his needs, increased and became more and more diversified ; he developed increasingly varied ways of relating to the society he lived in, which, among other things, generated increasingly complex his personal interests. His inclinations subdivided endlessly, generated new needs that activate themselves beyond the scope of his awareness. These grew into a huge mass of links that control nearly every part of him, without him being able to perceive it." (Lamarck, Lamarck, Histoire Naturelle des Animaux sans Vertèbres , vol. 1, 1815 : 278). Translated by Marcel Duclos and Michael Heller

Books of Michel Heller

  • Body Psychotherapy

    history, concepts & methods

    New York: W.W. Norton, 2012

    more info + order
  • Flesh of the Soul

    The body we work with

    Bern: Peter Lang, 2001

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  • Psychothérapies corporelles

    Fondements et pratiques

    Louvain: DeBoeck, 2008

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  • Körperpsychotherapie

    Geschichte - Konzepte - Methoden

    Erschienen im Oktober 2017

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  • La Méduse

    ou le monde reichien de Gerda Boyesen

    Les Editions Biodynamiques

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  • L'organisme intime

    Approches psychocorporelles des troubles fonctionnels

     

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Michel Heller

Michel Heller, Docteur in psychology & sport
Psychologist & Psychotherapist AVP/FSP/EABP

Avenue Virgile-Rossel 18
1012 Lausanne
 021 683 17 47

Languages spoken : English & French

IMPORTANT: For an appointment, please telephone.

painted by Joanna Raphael