He worked as a Lieutenant Commander and Assistant Director of the Psychiatric Treatment Center in the US Navy in Portsmouth, VA, from 1952 to 1954. Pierrakos received a Doctor of Medicine from University of the State of New York in 1947, worked as a Junior Staff Psychiatrist at Kings County Psychiatric Hospital in Brooklyn, NY until 1949, where he earned his Ph.D in psychiatry. In 1939, due to World War II, he left Greece for the United States. John Pierrakos was born in a small town, Neon Oitylon, in Greece. Pierrakos was the founder and director of the Institute of Core Energetics (1973-2001), co-founder of the Bioenergetics Institute in New York, NY with Lowen (1955-1970), and co-founder of The Pathwork Center, Phoenicia, NY, in association with his wife, Eva Pierrakos. A student of Wilhelm Reich, he developed bioenergetic analysis, a form of mind-body psychotherapy, with his then-colleague Alexander Lowen (Decem– October 28, 2008). John Pierrakos (Febru– February 1, 2001) was an American physician and psychiatrist. (1947), University of the State of New York
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