Bracha Hadar is a clinical psychologist, group analyst, and bioenergetic analyst. She was educated and worked in the psychoanalytical perception of psychotherapy. At that time, 1970-1980, the body was absent in the psychotherapy arena. Bracha Hadar felt that she would not be able to bring her true self as a therapist unless the body becomes part of the therapeutic relationships. To achieve this goal she started to work with a movement therapist who was the head of a training program for movement therapy. She was part of this program in teaching and supervision. In addition she joined the first training group in Israel of Bioenergetic Analysis. Her move towards Bioenergetics was considered, in the psychotherapy field in Israel, as moving away from Psychoanalysis. From then on she wrote many papers, both in Hebrew and in English, dealing with the importance of the body and sexuality in the therapeutic process. Her main issue was the theoretical relations between the fields, rather than difference. In continuation of the Bioenergetic training she started a group analysis training, and was certified as a group analyst. She belonged to the first generation who established the Institute of Group Analysis in Israel. Both Bioenergetic Analysis and Group Analysis were offsprings of Psychoanalysis. From then on it was her main subject in writing. After her paper "The therapeutic Approach to the Body in Psychoanalysis and its Relation to Movement Therapy and Bioenergetic Analysis" was published in: J. of the American Academy of Psychoanalysis 29(3). 483-490, 2001, she was invited to give a lecture in the annual meeting of the American Academy of Psychoanalysis in New York. She was surprised to meet in the audience psychoanalysts who lived in New York and have never heard about Bioenergetic Analysis, whose center of training was in N.Y. In Group Analysis she wrote about the meaning of sitting in a circle face-to-face. The result of it was her paper "The Body of Shame in the Circle of the Group", which was published in J. of Group Analysis. One of the comments to the paper was written by Malcolm Pines, an important figure in Group Analysis: "In this excellent paper Bracha Hadar brings back together that which should not have been rent asunder: mind/body: body/mind’. Shame became an important subject in her writings. Her paper "The impact of Shame on the body presence of therapists and patients in the dyadic and group therapeutic meeting" was published in Hebrew in the Israeli journal "Sihot" and became part of the theoretical material in several programs teaching psychotherapy. Bracha Hadar always considered herself part of the psychoanalytic approach. The Relational branch of the psychoanalytical approach seemed to be the right forum to belong, because of its sensitivity to the body dimension of psychological caregiving. She conducted workshops in the conferences of the relational forum in Israel. In the last couple of years she has focused on the theme of aging. Her chapter "Is there hope for change at my age" was published in 2017 as a chapter in the book "Group Analysis in the Land of Milk and Honey" – A collection of papers written by members of the Israeli Institute of Group Analysis. Bracha Hadar conducts 3 groups in her private clinic. One of the groups consists of aging. Participants. Her credo is: "It is never too late to become the person you were born to be".
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