Essentials of Dance Movement Psychotherapy

Preface

Acknowledgements

Foreword by Marianne Eberhard-Kaechele

1 Introduction: Experiencing inter-corporality and professional learning HELEN PAYNE, UK

Part I: Theory

2 Relational dance movement psychotherapy: A new old idea SISSY LYKOU, UK

3 Dynamic equilibrium: Engaging neurophysiological intelligences through dance/movement therapy KALILA HOMANN, USA

4 Conscious movement sequencing: The core of the dance/movement therapy experience CHRISTINE CALDWELL, USA

5 A phase model of growth in dance therapy SUSANNE BENDER, GERMANY

Part II Research

6 Gestalt and dance movement psychotherapy: Moving towards integration through practice and research in adults with eating disorders YEVA FELDMAN, UK

7 The use of touch in dance/movement therapy: A phenomenological study ELINA CAUNA AND KRISTINE VENDE-KOTOVA, LATVIA

8 A dance informed contribution to nonverbal interpersonal relating in autism spectrum disorders ROSEMARIE SAMARITTER, THE NETHERLANDS

9 Movement-based supervision for Korean arts therapies students KYUNG SOON KO, SOUTH KOREA

Part III Practice

10 Reliable change in outcomes from The BodyMind Approach (TM) with people who have medically unexplained symptoms/somatic symptom disorder in primary health care HELEN PAYNE, UK

11 Overcoming trauma: When verbal language is not enough DITA FEDERMAN AND GALIT ZANA, ISRAEL

12 I am here with you: Dance movement therapy and music therapy as a marriage of empathy in the special school setting SARA OWEN, UK

13 Holding and adolescent angst: Significant moments within a dance movement

psychotherapy group in a mainstream secondary school JULIE JOSEPH AND VICKY KARKOU, UK

14 The recovery journey: The place and value of dance movement psychotherapy with clients with alcohol or substance misuse PAM FISHER, UK

Appendix

Associations

Training courses

Journals