Table of Contents

List of Figures

List of Tables

List of Contributors

Foreword by Don Hanlon Johnson

Foreword by Vassiliki Karkou

Foreword by Babette Rothchild

Preface

Acknowledgements

List of Abbreviations

Introduction to Embodied Perspectives in Psychotherapy: Helen Payne, UK; Sabine Koch, Germany; Jennifer Tantia, USA; and Thomas Fuchs, Germany

Section One: Overview of Concepts

Introduction to Section

Essential Dimensions of Being a Body - Maxine Sheets-Johnstone, USA

Narrratives in Embodied Therapeutic Practice: Getting the story straight - Shaun Gallagher, USA and Daniel D. Hutto, Australia

Towards a Clinical Theory of Embodiment: A model for the conceptualization and treatment of mental illness - Jessica Acolin, USA

The Evidence for Basic Assumptions of Dance Movement Therapy and Body Psychotherapy Related to Findings from Embodiment Research - Johannes Michalak, Naomi Lyons, and Thomas Heidenreich, Germany

Having a Body and Moving your Body: Distinguishing somatic psychotherapy from dance/movement therapy - Jennifer Tantia, USA

Section Two: Theory and Practice in Dance Movement Psychotherapy

Introduction to Section

A Developmental Taxonomy of Interaction Modalities in Dance Movement Therapy - Marianne Eberhard-Kaechele, Germany

Witnessing Practice: In the eyes of the beholder - Tina Stromsted, USA

Somatic Body Mapping with Women During Life Transitions - Annette Schwalbe, UK and Kenya

Gravity in the Development of the (Body) Self in Dance Movement Psychotherapy - Diana Cheney, UK

Dance Movement Therapy: Building resilience from shared movement experiences - Rosemarie Samaritter, The Netherlands

Interrupted Rhythms: Dance/movement therapy’s contributions to suicide prevention – Susan D. Imus, USA

Body as Voice: Restorative dance/movement psychotherapy with survivors of relational trauma - Amber Gray, USA

Playing Through Dancing Stories - Sylvie Garnero, France

Psychological Re-sources in Integral Dance and Dance/Movement Therapy - Alexander Girshon and Ekaterina Karatygina, Russia

Mother-Son Transgenerational Transmission of Eating Issues in a Co-treatment Method using the Ways of Seeing Approach - Suzi Tortora and Jennifer Whitley, USA

The BodyMind Approach and People Affected by Medically Unexplained Symptoms /Somatic Symptom Disorder - Helen Payne, UK

The Disturbance of the Psychosomatic Balance - Haguit Ehrenfreund, Switzerland

Modulating Verbal and Non-Verbal Languages in Dance Movement Psychotherapy: Moving conversations with adult patients in private practice -Teresa Bas, Spain; Diana Fischman, Argentina; and Rosa Mª Rodríguez, Spain

The Importance of Subtle Movement and Stillness in Japanese Dance Movement Therapy: A comparison with the Japanese traditional performing art of 'Noh' - Miyuki Kaji, Japan

Embodiment of Space in Relation to the Self and Others in Psychotherapy: Boundlessness, emptiness, fullness, and betweenness - Rainbow Ho, Hong Kong

From the Alps to the Pyramids: Swiss and Egyptian perspectives on dance movement therapy -Iris Bräuninger, Switzerland and Radwa Said Abdelazim Elfeqi, Egypt

Section Three: Theory and Practice in Body Psychotherapy

Introduction to Section

Relating Through the Body: Self, other and the wider world - Gill Westland, UK

Functional Relaxation in Psychosomatic Medicine - Ursula Bartholomew and Ingrid Herholz, Germany

The Art of Bottom-Up Processing: Mindfulness, meaning and self-compassion in body psychotherapy - Halko Weiss and Maci Daye, Germany

Embodied-Relational Therapy - Nick Totton, UK

Four Forms of Knowledge in Biosynthesis Therapy - David Boadella, Switzerland

The Relational Turn in Body Psychotherapy - Michael Soth, UK

Emotional Regulation in Body Psychotherapy - Ulfried Geuter, Germany

The Embodiment of Dreams: Exploring mind/body connecting devices - Michel Coster Heller and Gillat Burckhardt-Bartov, France

The Therapist’s Body and the Intersubjectivities of the Unconscious -Tom Warnecke, UK

Being Moved to Tears: Somatic and motoric aspects of self-disclosure - Asaf Rolef Ben-Shahar, Israel

Oppression and Embodiment in Psychotherapy - Rae Johnson, USA

Micromovements: Filling out the movement continuum in clinical practice - Christine Caldwell, USA

Safety in Psychotherapy: The body matters - Helma Mair, Ireland

Touch and Embodiment: Body-oriented psychotherapeutic applications of clinical touch - Michael Changaris, USA

Traumatic Dis-embodiment: Effects of trauma on body perception and body image - Maurizio Stupiggia, Italy

Research Informing Body Psychotherapy Clinical Work: A spotlight on emotions - Margit Koemeda-Lutz, Switzerland

Appendix

Index

About the Author

Helen Payne, PhD, MPhil; UKCP Reg., ADMP-UK Reg., is Professor of Psychotherapy, specializing in dance movement psychotherapy, adverse childhood experiences and medically unexplained symptoms, at the University of Hertfordshire, UK.

Sabine Koch, PhD, MA, BC-DMT, is a psychologist and dance movement therapist. She is director of the Research Institute for Creative Arts Therapies at Alanus University, Germany, and Professor of Dance Movement Therapy of the Master Program at SRH University Heidelberg, Germany.

Jennifer Tantia, PhD, MS, BC-DMT, LCAT, is a somatic psychologist and dance movement psychotherapist, specializing in trauma and medically unexplained symptoms in the US. Dr. Tantia is former chair of the United States Association for Body Psychotherapy research committee and currently serves on the board of the American Dance Therapy Association as chair of Research and Practice.

Thomas Fuchs, PhD, MD, is Karl Jaspers Professor for Philosophical Foundations of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy at the University of Heidelberg and the Psychiatric University Hospital, Germany.

Reviews

"A broader and more international collection of writing on embodiment and psychotherapy is currently unimaginable. This new collection should serve as an authoritative source for embodied psychotherapy practitioners for many years to come. The coverage provided by the thirty-seven chapters that cover dance movement psychotherapy and body psychotherapy practice is unprecedented and offers a truly wide range of opinion and approach. This work may serve to bring these related but different approaches closer and establish greater understanding. Kudos to the editors, this volume is a true achievement!" - Robyn Flaum Cruz, PhD, BC-DMT; Professor, Lesley University PhD Program in Expressive Therapies, USA"The editors of this volume bring together an illustrious group of international leaders in both dance movement psychotherapy and body psychotherapy to share their wisdom on embodied therapeutic practice. Vast in its scope, original in its perspective, and comprehensive in its inclusion of diverse points of view, this book is a treasure trove of practical and theoretical riches. For all who honor the role of the body’s natural intelligence in healing from trauma and attachment inadequacies, this book is an essential resource." - Pat Ogden, PhD; founder of Sensorimotor Psychotherapy Institute and author of Trauma and the Body: A Sensorimotor Approach to Psychotherapy and Sensorimotor Psychotherapy: Interventions for Trauma and Attachment"This book is an important contribution to the growing science of mind-body interaction in psychotherapy. It is unique in its wide range of views of the importance of the body and will be invaluable for those working in psychotherapy and counselling." - Prof. Dr. phil. Claire Schaub-Moore, CPsychol AFBPsS, WiAP, Wiesbaden Germany"As psychotherapies incorporate knowledge of the body, the term embodiment has become a central theme in the understanding and treatment of individuals with mental health challenges. In The Routledge International Handbook of Embodied Perspectives in Psychotherapy: Approaches from Dance Movement and Body Psychotherapies the editors - Helen Payne, Sabine Koch, Jennifer Tantia and Thomas Fuchs - have crafted a timely and important resource for clinician, student, and informed consumer. Although Dance Movement Therapy and Body Psychotherapy sub-disciplines have their own affiliative societies and journals, the central role of the body is shared in both approaches and many therapists integrate features from each sub-discipline in their treatment models. This impressive scholarly volume documents how embodied perspectives have emerged in psychotherapy and are now commonly integrated in treatment models. The volume selects authors from a broad range of theoretical orientations and trainings who share a vision that body-oriented therapies provide an efficient and effective portal to alleviate the burden of mental discomfort, which often accompanies a history of trauma and abuse." - Stephen W. Porges, PhD, Distinguished University Scientist, Indiana University, USA; Professor of Psychiatry, University of North Carolina, USA; author of The Pocket Guide to the Polyvagal Theory: The Transformative Power of Feeling Safe

"A broader and more international collection of writing on embodiment and psychotherapy is currently unimaginable. This new collection should serve as an authoritative source for embodied psychotherapy practitioners for many years to come. The coverage provided by the thirty-seven chapters that cover dance movement psychotherapy and body psychotherapy practice is unprecedented and offers a truly wide range of opinion and approach. This work may serve to bring these related but different approaches closer and establish greater understanding. Kudos to the editors, this volume is a true achievement!"
- Robyn Flaum Cruz, PhD, BC-DMT; Professor, Lesley University PhD Program in Expressive Therapies, USA"The editors of this volume bring together an illustrious group of international leaders in both dance movement psychotherapy and body psychotherapy to share their wisdom on embodied therapeutic practice. Vast in its scope, original in its perspective, and comprehensive in its inclusion of diverse points of view, this book is a treasure trove of practical and theoretical riches. For all who honor the role of the body’s natural intelligence in healing from trauma and attachment inadequacies, this book is an essential resource."
- Pat Ogden, PhD; founder of Sensorimotor Psychotherapy Institute and author of Trauma and the Body: A Sensorimotor Approach to Psychotherapy and Sensorimotor Psychotherapy: Interventions for Trauma and Attachment"This book is an important contribution to the growing science of mind-body interaction in psychotherapy. It is unique in its wide range of views of the importance of the body and will be invaluable for those working in psychotherapy and counselling."
- Prof. Dr. phil. Claire Schaub-Moore, CPsychol AFBPsS, WiAP, Wiesbaden Germany"As psychotherapies incorporate knowledge of the body, the term embodiment has become a central theme in the understanding and treatment of individuals with mental health challenges. In The Routledge International Handbook of Embodied Perspectives in Psychotherapy: Approaches from Dance Movement and Body Psychotherapies the editors - Helen Payne, Sabine Koch, Jennifer Tantia and Thomas Fuchs - have crafted a timely and important resource for clinician, student, and informed consumer. Although Dance Movement Therapy and Body Psychotherapy sub-disciplines have their own affiliative societies and journals, the central role of the body is shared in both approaches and many therapists integrate features from each sub-discipline in their treatment models. This impressive scholarly volume documents how embodied perspectives have emerged in psychotherapy and are now commonly integrated in treatment models. The volume selects authors from a broad range of theoretical orientations and trainings who share a vision that body-oriented therapies provide an efficient and effective portal to alleviate the burden of mental discomfort, which often accompanies a history of trauma and abuse."
- Stephen W. Porges, PhD, Distinguished University Scientist, Indiana University, USA; Professor of Psychiatry, University of North Carolina, USA; author of The Pocket Guide to the Polyvagal Theory: The Transformative Power of Feeling Safe"What strikes me most about reading this excellent book, apart from a feeling of excitement, is all the different ways of describing embodiment and practicing embodied therapies it contains. Like the proverbial blind men and the elephant, there is a sense the authors are discussing different parts of the same hidden thing, or the same part in different ways. Taken as a whole, it brings the elephant—a wondrous beast indeed—more fully into view."
-Adam Bambury, International Body Psychotherapy Journal