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Subject(s)

• Mind and body therapies [Browse]
• Dance therapy [Browse]
• Movement therapy [Browse]

Editor

• Payne, Helen, 1951- [Browse]
• Koch, Sabine C. [Browse]
• Tanti, Jennifer [Browse]
• Fuchs, Thomas, 1958- [Browse]

Series

Routledge international handbooks. [More in this series]

Summary note

There is a growing interest in embodied approaches to psychotherapy internationally. This volume focuses on the respective focal professions of dance movement psychotherapy (DMP) and body psychotherapy (BP), addressing the psychotherapeutic need for healing throughout the lifespan. Within embodied clinical approaches, the therapist and client collaborate to discover how the body and movement can be used to strengthen positive relational skills, attending to the client's immediate and long-term needs through assessment, formulation, treatment and evaluation. Both DMP and BP are based upon the capacity and authority of the body and non-verbal communication to support and heal patients with diverse conditions, including trauma, unexplained bodily symptoms and other psychological distress, and to develop the clients' emotional and relational capacities by listening to their bodies for integration and wellbeing. In The Routledge International Handbook of Embodied Perspectives in Psychotherapy, world leaders in the field contribute their expertise to showcase contemporary psychotherapeutic practice. They share perspectives from multiple models that have been developed throughout the world, providing information on theoretical advances and clinical practice, as well as discourse on the processes and therapeutic techniques employed individually and in groups. Presented in three parts, the book covers underpinning embodiment concepts, potentials of dance movement psychotherapy and of body psychotherapy, each of which is introduced with a scene-setting piece to allow the reader to easily engage with the content. With a strong focus on cross- and interdisciplinary perspectives, readers will find a wide compilation of embodied approaches to psychotherapy, allowing them to deepen and further their conceptualization and support best practice. This unique handbook will be of particular interest to clinical practitioners in the fields of body psychotherapy and dance movement psychotherapy as well as professionals from psychology, medicine, social work, counselling/psychotherapy and occupational therapy, and to those from related fields who are in search of information on the basic therapeutic principles and practice of body and movement psychotherapies and seeking to further their knowledge and understanding of the discipline. It is also an essential reference for academics and students of embodied psychotherapy, embodied cognitive science and clinical professions.

Bibliographic references

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Source of description

Description based on print version record.

Contents

• Cover; Half Title; Series Page; Title; Copyright; Contents; List of figures; List of tables; List of contributors; Foreword; Foreword; Foreword; Preface; Acknowledgements; List of abbreviations; Introduction to embodied perspectives in psychotherapy; SECTION I Overview of concepts; Introduction; 1 Essential dimensions of being a body; 2 Narratives in embodied therapeutic practice: Getting the story straight; 3 Towards a clinical theory of embodiment: A model for the conceptualization and treatment of mental illness
• 4 The evidence for basic assumptions of dance movement therapy and body psychotherapy related to findings from embodiment research5 Having a body and moving your body: Distinguishing somatic psychotherapy from dance/movement therapy; SECTION II Theory and practice in dance movement psychotherapy; Introduction; 6 A developmental taxonomy of interaction modalities in dance movement therapy; 7 Witnessing practice: In the eyes of the beholder©; 8 Somatic body mapping with women during life transitions; 9 Gravity and the development of the (body) self in dance movement psychotherapy
• 10 Dance movement therapy: Building resilience from shared movement experiences11 Interrupted rhythms: Dance/movement therapy's contributions to suicide prevention; 12 Body as voice: Restorative dance/movement psychotherapy with survivors of relational trauma; 13 Playing through dancing stories; 14 Psychological re-sources in integral dance and dance/movement therapy; 15 Mother-son transgenerational transmission of eating issues in a co-treatment method using the Ways of Seeing approach; 16 The BodyMind Approach and people affected by medically unexplained symptoms/somatic symptom disorder
• 17 The disturbance of the psychosomatic balance18 Modulating verbal and non-verbal languages in dance movement therapy: Moving conversations with neurotic adults in private practice; 19 The importance of subtle movement and stillness in Japanese dance movement therapy: A comparison with the Japanese traditional performing art of 'Noh'; 20 Embodiment of space in relation to the self and others in psychotherapy: Boundlessness, emptiness, fullness, and betweenness; 21 From the Alps to the Pyramids: Swiss and Egyptian perspectives on dance movement therapy
• SECTION III Theory and practice in body psychotherapyIntroduction; 22 Relating through the body: Self, other and the wider world; 23 Functional relaxation in psychosomatic medicine; 24 The art of bottom-up processing: Mindfulness, meaning and self-compassion in body psychotherapy; 25 Embodied-Relational Therapy; 26 Four forms of knowledge in biosynthesis therapy; 27 The relational turn in body psychotherapy; 28 Emotional regulation in body psychotherapy; 29 The embodiment of dreams: Exploring mind/body connecting devices; 30 The therapist's body and the intersubjectivities of the unconscious

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ISBN

• 1-351-65948-0
• 1-351-65947-2
• 1-315-15941-4

OCLC

1055568663

Other standard number

• 10.4324/9781315159416

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