IFCC, Institut de Formation en Communication et Thérapie Psycho-Corporelle
Directors: Eliane Fliegans-Jung, Claude Vaux
21 rue Vauban
F-67000 Strasbourg
France
Tel: +33-3-8860-4484
+33-(0)3-8860-3263
School history
1982 -... Eliane Jung and Claude Vaux first led a gestalt therapy and postural integration training in Strasbourg.
1995 - .. They initiated the Creative Communication Training Institute (IFCC).
1997 -... IFCC joined the French Psychotherapy Federation (FFdP), a member of the European Association of Psychotherapy (EAP).
2003 -... Eliane Jung and Claude Vaux became members of the European Association for Body-Psychotherapy (EABP). Eliane Jung now represents EABP within FFdP.
300 people have been trained by the Institute to date. 30% work in private practice and 40% use their training to enhance their function at work. The others use it for their personal growth.
Basic theory and concepts
The body is made up of connections originating in each person’s individual and collective history. It is a living memory carrying the inheritance of the human species. Body-psychotherapy helps us to discover this “intelligence of the body” and to develop a clearer link with our surroundings.
The frame of the therapy is derived from gestalt therapy as defined by Fritz Perls, from analytic therapy as defined by Carl Gustav Jung, and from Wilhelm Reich’s character analysis.
The method we teach –Psychotherapeutic Postural Integration (PPI) - is linked to humanistic psychology. It associates postural integration, gestalt therapy and the practice of regenerative movement, thus giving a special place to the body, to its language and its various ways of expression.
The method aims at:
- allowing a constructive integration of the antagonistic and conflict elements of our personality
- favouring more freedom of expression and of choice
- revealing and/or giving more strength to our creative potential.
Training description
A four-year psychotherapist training
Teaching time: 132 days (1056 hours) plus 120 hours of personal work with models.
First year: Preparatory course
Teaching is mainly experiential and lasts 30 days (240 hours), including 19 days of group-therapy work, a five-day body-psychotherapy seminar, two days of theoretical introduction to gestalt therapy and eight individual sessions.
Second and Third years
Teaching is mainly didactic, but stays experiential. Prerequisite: a two year personal psychotherapy and advanced experience in group work, or training in another psychotherapy method, or having completed the preparatory year.
The 60 training days (480 hours) over two years include 11 non-residential and residential seminars and six individual sessions.
Fourth year
The teaching is didactic and accompanies a beginning of the professional practice.
Prerequisite: having completed the second and third training years.
30 days (240 hours), including working as an assistant in a seminar, one residential eight-day seminar, five non-residential seminars.
Psychopathology module
Four 3-day seminars. Contents: mental disorders, normality borders, the psychiatric approach, DSM IV, neurosciences, clinical syndromes of personality disorders and their nosography, depression, psychopathology of sexuality.
Supervision
Two supervision groups meet one day a month (nine month cycles). As well as this, two three-day more specifically body-psychotherapy seminars are offered in a year.
The Body Psychotherapist diploma
To obtain his/her diploma, the trainee has to present a memoir to a jury discussing the work conducted with his/her two “models”, the methodologies s/he used and a theoretical theme. She/he makes a commitment to abide by the deontological code of the European Association of Psychotherapy (EAP).
Trainers
- Eliane Fliegans-Jung: An ECP-holder clinical psychologist, accredited supervisor for the Ecole Parisienne de Gestalt (EPG).
- Claude Vaux: An ECP-holder psychotherapist, graduated in management, master’s degree in psycho-sociology and sciences of education.
- Pierre-Yves Brissiaud: An ECP-holder psychotherapist. Specialised in psycho-pathology and relaxation, clinical Sophrology, sex-therapy.
- Paul Rebillot: A Gestalt psychotherapist, founder of the Experiential Gestalt School, he is renowned for his inventive seminar structures such as The Hero’s Journey, Owning the Shadow, Death and Resurrection…
- Jack Painter: A professor of philosophy, psychotherapist and founder of Therapeutic Postural Integration and of Therapeutic Energetic Integration. He leads the San Francisco Centre of Release.
- Dr Lucien Tenenbaum: He has worked as a psychiatrist in public hospitals for twenty-two years and as a psychotherapist for twelve years.
- Cornélia Schuppisser: A psychotherapist and physiotherapist, she works in Switzerland as well as in France.
- Serge Ginger: A psychotherapist and psychologist, founder of the EPG (Ecole Parisienne de Gestalt)
- Secretary: Lydie Lettmann
State of recognition
Institut de Formation en Communication et Thérapie Psycho-Corporelle was accredited as a Body-Psychotherapy Training Institute by EABP FORUM in October 2004.
EABP Members
Eliane Fliegans-Jung, Claude Vaux
Literature - publication – research
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Tsuda, Itsuo, Le Non Faire
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