Psychosomatic Osteopathy

January 20–22, 2012, Saint Petersburg

Claude Bochurberg is Doctor of Osteopathy, member of the Osteopath Register of France, specialist in psychosomatics. Graduate of the European School of Osteopathy (Maidstone, United Kingdom) and Paris-Nord University. Holds a diploma of the Rene Descartes Paris V University in psychosomatics. Lecturer of the French Higher Osteopathic Conservatory since 1982, author of more than 20 books.

Objective of the Seminar

The most up-to-date physiologic studies show that we are only emotion. And our body is evidence of this fact: when we are not able to control our conflicts, feelings and different stresses anxiety overwhelms us.

The seminar conducted by Claude Bochurberg offers you to get to know this "single" approach uniting the psychics and soma within the limits of osteopathic consultation taking into account the fact that feelings, "psychic traumas" and emotional stress which most often underlie the disbalance of homeostasis, are perceived by the osteopath, in particular, at the level of the muscular tunic and many other privileged areas of the patient’s body.

The objective of this seminar, which is the result of more than 40 years of reflections, is to accept the "human patient" correctly and determine the true role of his life history through his complaint and also reveal causes of his or her emotional problems in order to understand him or her and perform the osteopathic treatment in the best way.

Finally, the task of this seminar is to improve potential therapeutic possibilities of present and future osteopaths and also to suggest them the tools which meet the expectations and complaints of the patients to a significant extent and which are considerably more complex that it is usually believed.

Program of the Seminar

First part:

• Transition caused by psychoanalytical culture.
• Freudian codification.
• Concepts of transfer and counter-transfer in osteopathy.

Second part:

• Psychosomatics is the area of osteopathy.
• Contribution of the Paris psychosomatic school.
• Clinic. Verbalization. Complaint. Pre-conscious material.
• Clinical cases. Discussion.

• Psycho, neuro and endocrine data. Generalizing system.
• Somatization. Privileged areas of facilitation. Semiology.
• The hand as a contact channel between the physician and the patient.
• Osteopathic gestures. Patient monitoring.
• Phenomenological data.
• Clinical cases. Discussion.