Guy Gladstone

Bioenergetics & Psychodrama

For me, therapy is a passage, a transition, not a way of life. Along with an opening of the bodymind through Bioenergetics, I encourage openness to relationships with others in the here and now, using the action methods of Psychodrama.

Over the last 36 years I have acquired a wide background in groupwork, with experience of Encounter, Gestalt and Co-Counselling; and have trained in many forms of hands-on bodywork, including Pulsing, Postural Integration and Biodynamic Massage. In 1971 I was weaned from meditation and the esoteric by reading 'The Primal Scream', I participated in self-help groups like ‘People not Psychiatry’ and lived in communes with a therapeutic dynamic. I slipped into the emerging Human Potential movement without knowing it as such. Nine years as an international household removals contractor was my first training in helping people through crisis.

Previous jobs included teaching English as a foreign language, digging the Victoria Line and disc jockey on a pirate radio station. I hold the IDHP Diploma in Humanistic Psychology, am a member of the AHPP, and a graduate of a three year training, the IPSS and a five year training in Analytical Body Psychotherapy with BAABP. The subject of my degree was Reich’s politics and the theory of bodyreading. I am indebted to Glyn Seaborn Jones from whom I learnt at the outset to trust my emotional body, to David Boadella who taught me how to be with other bodies, and to a psychoanalysis from which I have learnt respect for the unconscious.