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Co-founders of PBSP®
Albert Pesso & Diane Boyden-Pesso

PBSP^® Brings More
Pleasure,
Satisfaction,
Meaning and Connectedness
to Life
Happiness

After more than four decades of intensive, depth-work with clients, using the powerful, foundational, mind-body processes that Diane and I discovered, developed and evolved into the complex, comprehensive process known as Pesso Boyden System Psychomotor^®, PBSP^®, an unexpected, breath-takingly, fresh, new series of realizations and procedures have flowered into being. They are firmly based upon what we already know, do and offer to the world, however the results from applying these new additions have been simply astonishing.

The speed with which positive, body, emotional and perceptual changes happen; the joy of living that is released; the feeling of comfort and pleasure that clients report from being in the center of their lives, so clearly visible in their demeanor and posture, is nothing short of remarkable. It is no exaggeration to describe those changes as sacred. It is simply a privilege to view them.

Now our task and mission is to bring that knowledge and state to as many people as possible. The theories and techniques are clear and well defined and happily confirm the neurological, emotional and psychological research that is in the forefront of scientific exploration. Join me and the PBSP community and learn for yourself how it feels to become more fully alive and bring back to your clients what you have gained.

Pesso Boyden System Psychomotor® is a method of emotional reeducation that applies successfully to a wide range of psychological, emotional and interpersonal issues.

WITH PBSP^® YOU CAN

Symbolically satisfy Unfulfilled Developmental Needs -- experience having a place in the world, with nurture, support, protection and limits.
Offset the impact of Traumatic Events -- the psychological, physical and sexual abuse that block normal development
Undo the consequences of “Holes in Roles” -- the fissures and fractures in family system that people try to heal by automatically taking on the roles of absent or missing family members that reduce the ability to experience happiness
Experience The Happiness You Were Born to Expect

What Other People Say About PBSP®

Quote from Bessel A. van der Kolk, M.D. Past President of the International Society for Traumatic Stress Studies, Professor of Psychiatry at Boston University Medical School, and Clinical Director of the Trauma Center at HRI Hospital in Brookline, Massachusetts.

"Over the past 40 years, Al Pesso and Diane Boyden-Pesso have perfected an extraordinarily effective technique, PBSP® [Pesso Boyden System Psychomotor], providing people with experiences that were missing during their growth and development. The artistry of Pesso's ‘structure’ can be a unique and profoundly life-altering experience."

Gus Napier, Ph.D., author of "The Family Crucible" & "The Fragile Bond"

"If you want to really learn how to work on family of origin issues, and how to use body information in your therapy, go straight to the
foremost therapist in that field, Al Pesso."

Quote from Elaine B. Pinderhughes, Professor Emerita, Boston College Graduate School of Social Work

"As a practitioner and long time teacher of clinical theory and practice (psychodynamic and family therapy), I had had evidence of the soundness of PBSP® theory and its effectiveness in practice via observations of Al Pesso's work at clinical meetings. However my conviction of the efficacy of the theory in treatment was substantially reinforced through personal experience of his training seminars which I sought to help me cope with my husband's death.
Despite having been psychoanalyzed years ago and having completed family of origin work as part of my training as a family therapist, Pesso's work reached depths not tapped earlier and reworked issues in ways that created greater integration and self understanding than ever believed possible. It is his ability to tap experience at the earliest developmental levels, along with his ever vigilant stance that is respectful of the ego's readiness to accept and integrate new information, that makes his work so stunning and transformative. Of special significance to me also was the capacity to incorporate cultural (ethnic/racial) dynamics to the many levels of understanding gained."

Albert Pesso and Diane Boyden-Pesso developed PBSP® in 1961

    Before that time they spent years observing how human emotions were expressed in body action and speech, for they were determined to understand not only how emotional feelings become outward behavior but also to learn how to manage and control the impact that emotional expression had on those toward whom those expressions were directed and those who only witnessed it.

    From those beginnings, a large body of movement sensitization techniques, theories of human interaction and a complex process of emotional re-education evolved. PBSP is now a fully developed unified theory that has at its foundation a vision of what it means to be human -- biologically, psychologically, sociologically, philosophically, and spiritually.

   Since those beginnings thousands of therapist have received training and currently there are 17 PBSP* certification training programs 10 countries.