Metodo elsa gindler biography

This article was first published in The United States Association of Body Psychotherapy Journal Volume 3, Number 1, 2004.

That issue was a tribute to Charlotte Selver and I had the honor of being guest co-editor.

Then in 2006 it became a chapter in a book published by Hogrefe Verlag in Germany as Handbuch der Korperpsychotherapie (Handbook of Body Psychotherapy) and has been here on my website.

This article explores the background of Elsa Gindler, in the early part of the twentieth century in Berlin, and whom she influenced in the s and later.

Elsa Gindler was born on June 19, , the youngest of four children, of whom only three survived: Elsa, Elisabeth and Max. Their father was a blacksmith.

Elsa Gindler (19 June – 8 January ) was a somatic bodywork pioneer in Germany.

She was a pioneer who worked in Berlin during in the first half of the 20th century.

This article examines the parallel development of the gymnastic movement and the expressive dance movement in Berlin, Germany from a historical perspective.

Now it is to be published in English by North Atlantic Books with the title: The Handbook of Body Psychotherapy & Somatic Psychology.

The editors of this extensive undertaking recognize the two primary ancestors of body-psychotherapy to be Wilhelm Reich and Elsa Gindler.

Wilhelm Reich taught and influenced many psychotherapists in Europe and later in the United States. Elsa Gindler’s work influenced many people in Europe and some of those eventually came to the U.S. and taught. One of Gindler’s students who carried her