Berlin Gesture Center in cooperation with 
Movement Analysis Scales & Test (BAST) & Body Sculpture Test (KST)
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Workshops I – III Workshop I 30.-31.01.09
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Introduction
In the workshop series, we will present two bodyoriented diagnostic tests:
• the Movement Analysis Scales & Test (BAST ) ©
• the Body Sculpture Test (KST) and Interview ©
These two diagnostic tools complement each other in understanding body experience:
the Movement Analysis Scales & Test registers movement behaviour and specifically,
those movement features which reflect an individual’s body image. In the
Body Sculpture Test, an individual’s body experience is transferred into
a self-plasticized figure. Furthermore, body sculptures can be regarded as “frozen”
body movement. The Movement Analysis Scales & Test and the Body Sculpture
Test and Interview permit to gain insight into a person’s body experience
in a more direct mannerthan verbal diagnostic tools such as questionnaires can
do.
Movement Analysis Scales & Test (BAST)
Movement Analysis Scales & Test (Lausberg 1997) consists of a movement
test and scales for the analysis of movement behavior. The test comprises a
10-minute two-part movement program with movement performance tasks (part I)
and improvisation tasks (part II). In part I, the ability to execute certain
movement qualities is tested by the performance of the movement tasks. In part
2, the improvisations give an impression to the subject’s spontaneous movement
behavior andrepertoire.
The movement behavior is analyzed with operationalizedscales, some of which
are derived from the Laban movement analysis (Laban 1950). For research purposes,
a BAST-template has beendeveloped which enables to apply the scales in combination
with the annotation tool ELAN 
www.latmpi.eu/tools/elan/thirdparty.
Body Sculpture Test and Interview
The Body Sculpture Test is a projective test for therapists to allow
the understanding of patients’ body images, i.e. how they see themselves
regarding the physical aspects of their self-perception. The test was first
used by the Eutonia-pedagogue Gerda Alexander in 1978. She had her students,
eyes shut, form human figures. Therapists have been using this test for diagnostical
purposes as well as a therapeutical instrument ever since and it seems to be
“the only instrument to express the conscious and nonconscious body experience
in an three-dimensional way” (Wadepuhl). With eyes closed, the subject
forms a human figure out of clay. The test is based on the hypothesis that in
absence of any visual control, the non-conscious body experience can be expressed.
Through this freely and spontaneously created work the subject is able to express
his/her sensations, emotions and conflicts without using words. Emotions can
flow through the hands into the material. Results of this process are verbalized
right after the finishing of the sculpture. The Body Sculpture Interview
follows a given guideline in order to facilitate the analysis of qualitativeaspects.
Summary of the workshop program
The workshops series consists of three workshops. In workshop I, we will
give an introduction to BAST and KST and focus on the participants’ self-experience
and exploration of the potential of both tools. In workshop II, the application
of the tests in therapeutical settings and with specific diagnostical groups
is outlined. In workshop III, the application of the test in research
is presented and participants are supervised in the development of their own
research projects. As a preparation for the workshops II and III, participants
should analyze healthy subjects and patients with the two tests. The participants’
own cases will be supervised in the workshops.
For the participation in all three workshops and the BAST / KST analyses of three healthy subjects and three patients, a certificate for the application of both tests in practice and research is given.
A coding-manual and literature on both tests will be provided. Every participant
should bring a laptop to the workshops.
Referees / scientific organization
Hedda Lausberg: Professor of Psychosomatic Medicine, Friedrich-Schiller-Universität
Jena; dance therapist (BVT), specialist in neurology, psychosomatic medicine
and psychotherapy, psychiatry; habilitation in neurology at the Charité
- University hospital Berlin; co-founder of the Berlin Gesture Center www.berlingesturecenter.de;
has received research grants from the German Research Association, the Max Planck
Society, and the Volkswagen-Stiftung. Research focuses are: development of movementanalysis
tools for clinical and research purposes; relation between movement behavior
and mentaldisease. A major research project examined the movement behavior of
patients with eating disorders. As a neuroscientist, her recent studies investigate
the neuropsychology of movement behavior, specifically the relation between
movement and cognitive and emotional processes.
Angela von Arnim: M.D., lecturer of the body psychotherapeutic method
“Functional Relaxation” by M. Fuchs; education in body psychotherapy
at the institute of M. Fuchs and S. Krietsch; earned medical degree at the medical
university of Hannover, specialized in internal medicine and public health management;
in 1998 specialization in psychosomatic medicine and psychotherapy; worked in
the department of psychosomatic medicine and psychotherapy of the Erlangen university
hospital for psychiatry and psychotherapy since 1993, became senior physician
of the department, was trained in psychoanalysis; since 2007 practicing as psychotherapist
and body therapist in Berlin. Her main research topics are body psychotherapy
methods in the treatment of chronic pain, body image assessment, the development
of theoretical models in psychosomatic medicine, and psychoanalytic attachment
research in early development. Member of the DKPM (German Council of Psychosomatic
Medicine), the A.F.E. (Arbeitsgemeinschaft für Funktionelle Entspannung,
Functional Relaxation), and the AIM (Uexküll-Akadamy for IntegratedMedicine).
Leader of the AIM-workgroup “Body Signs”.
Organisatorisches
Flyer
Movement
Analysis Scales & Test (BAST) & Body Sculpture Test (KST), pdf 
Location
Projektron
Gneisenaustraße 2
10961 Berlin, Germany
Public transportation by
Bus: lines 148 and 187
Underground: lines U7 and U6
(Bus / U station: Mehringdamm)
Workshop fees
• each workshop: 250 € (reduced fee: 150 €)
• all three workshops together: 600 € (reduced fee: 360 €)
Dates
Workshop I 30.-31.01.09 9 am – 4 pm
Workshop II 13.-14.03.09 9 am – 4 pm
Workshop III 11.-12.09.09 9 am – 4 pm
Deadline for registration
Workshop I until 15.12.2008
Workshop II until 15.01.2009
Workshop III until 15.07.2009
Maximum capacity
10 participants
Registration
Ms. Erika Kleinen, E-Mail: eri.kleinen@uniklinikum-dresden.de