Michel Heller

Psychotherapist Lausanne

Psychotherapy

Integrative psychotherapy that may use body techniques. The psychotherapy is aimed at enhancing you understanding of who you are, of managing your depression, anxiety and relational issues. I also give individual courses of relaxation and auto-regulation, or courses that allow one to become more explicitly aware of one’s communication style (analysis of nonverbal communication).

News

Nicole Nicole Clerc presents her latest paintings in Sierre, May the 3d to May the 23d 2023

Nicole Clerc presents her last paintings in the Contrast Gallery of Sierre. Opening drinks on the ... more info
Michel Heller: O organismo intimo (The intimate organism)

On the type of knowledge that is used in body psychotherapy. The presentation will be given by zoom ... 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
Serge Prengel's interviews Michel Heller on his French book on body psychotherapies

Michael describes his approach of body psychotherapies that guided him when he wrote his book on ... more info
Michael Heller: Reflecting on body psychotherapy, its history, concepts & methods

Interview in English with Serge Prengel on my psychotherapeutic work: ... more info
Interview: An Overview of Body Psychotherapy with Michael Heller by Dr Dave

Interview on the book I published with W.W. Norton, on Shrink Rap Radio: ... more info

Quotes

Without god or devil, a free man, alone responsible of his acts, masters neither his desires nor his needs

Paul Valéry: My Faust
As man thrived in different regions of the globe, increased in number, establish himself 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, 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
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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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