History of Biostructural Analysis
The STRUCTOGRAM® Training System (Biostructural Analysis) was developed by using knowledge obtained from brain research. It has been confirmed by recent findings in anthropological disciplines and systems sciences.
The American brain researcher, Professor Dr. Paul D. MacLean (1913-2007), Director of the Brain Evolution and Behaviour Institute at the National Institute of Mental Health, Bethesda/ Maryland, studied the fundamental evolution/biological principles and mechanisms of action (functional structure) of the brain in the 1970's and 1980's. He discovered that our brain has retained major elements from different periods of evolution in its development. MacLean coined the term of the ‘triune brain’ (the three-part brain) to describe this. His discovery is a major contributor to the understanding of the relationship between the brain structure and the human character or behaviour.
The Munich based anthropologist Rolf W. Schirm, developed a model of the human personality based on empirical studies. This structural model gained its solid scientific underpinning through MacLean's the ‘triune brain concept’. Schirm first met MacLean in the 1970's. The outcome was the Biostructural Analysis as used in the Structogram Training System.
Schirm met Dr. Victor Bataillard, founding member of the Swiss Institute for Business Administration (Schweizerisches Institut für Betriebsökonomie) and former owner of the publishing company ‘Organisator-Verlag’, Zurich, in the 1980's. In collaboration with Schirm, Dr. Bataillard founded the IBSA - Institute for Biostructural Analyses- (Institut für Biostruktur-Analysen AG), Zurich, as an international franchisor of Biostructural Analysis. After Dr. Bataillard's death, Peter Stutz took over the management of the Institute, which is now headquartered in Lucerne, Switzerland.
Later, Juergen Schoemen, in collaboration with an interdisciplinary team of scientists was able to confirm the work of Schirm and expand the scientific foundation of Biostructural Analysis by integrating new discoveries in neuro-science, molecular biology and behavioural genetics. (Schoemen is director of the German Structogram Centre, Speyer/Frankfurt and Chair of the Scientific Advisory Board of IBSA.)
The team of authors Christian Reist, Juergen Schoemen and Peter Stutz then expanded the STRUCTOGRAM® Training System into specialized units focused on self-knowledge, leadership and team-performance. More recently, they developed the unit ‘The Key to Understanding the Customer’ for sales training.
We cannot be all that we want to be. But we can become all that we are capable of becoming.
Dean H. Hamer, Ph.D.
Behaviour geneticist, Director of the Gene Structure and Regulation Unit at the National Cancer Institute (NCI), Bethesda, USA
