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Body, Bond and Gender - Module I

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The Foundation, since 2000, develops activities to understand and work with body and mind

The Foundation's work is built around Relational Body Psychotherapy, an approach Dr. Liliana Acero developed over decades of research, clinical work and training — connecting neo-Reichian bodywork, somatic reading, and gender theory.

Courses run online via Zoom. Participants range from psychologists and health and mental health-care workers and social scientists to people with no clinical training who want a different way into their own body.

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Body, Bond and Gender - Module I

📅 17/10/2026

🕐 Saturdays 12:00-14:00 hs (BRT — Rio de Janeiro)

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Dr. Liliana Acero

Liliana Acero spent decades building Relational Body Psychotherapy into a recognized field, with research, clinical work and training across USA, Canada, Argentina, Brazil and Chile. Her approach bridges academic theory and direct clinical work.

Ph.D., University of Sussex, 1983; Post-Doctorate, University of Massachusetts and Brown University, 1992-1994. CNPQ Post-Doctorate (National Council for Scientific and Technological Development, Brazil). Researcher in the Graduate Program on Public Policy, Strategy and Development at INCT (National Institute of Science and Technology, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro). Researcher in international protection, ENDURE UNICAMP, São Paulo, on COVID-19 health impacts in Brazil's periphery, and researcher on the international Phoenix project on migration and mental health in Chile, Fundación Cuerpo y Energía. Visiting Professor, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (PPED) since 2009. Collaborative Professor and Researcher in the Graduate Program. Former International Trainer in Biosynthesis and Bioenergetic Analysis for 35 years, creator of the theoretical and clinical field of Relational Body Psychotherapy.

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Working Methodology

This is a summary of some of the work carried out with students for the understanding and transformation of muscular armoring, a concept by Wilhelm Reich, father of body psychotherapy. Armoring is formed in early relationships due to the frustration of psychomotor and emotional functions that the social environment repeatedly imposes on children at different stages of their developmental growth, and which tend to persist into adulthood.

This is an older video because Fundación Cuerpo y Energía now offers courses on Relational Body Psychotherapy, a neo-Reichian approach created by Dr. Liliana Acero, integrating not only Biosynthesis but also Bioenergetic Analysis created by Dr. Alexander Lowen, with aspects of Gender Studies, among other perspectives. The Board of Directors is different from the one mentioned in the video. Try to observe the interpretations of movements and feelings in the body reading shown by some students — this is not a therapy session, as that would require privacy.
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