Authentic Movement is a new discipline aiding the creative process in choreography, writing, theatre performance, dance, graphic and expressive arts, deepening spiritual journeys and meditative states, as well as intensifying personal processes in psychotherapy, meditation and conflict resolution.This second volume on Authentic Movement is an engaging and dynamic collection of scholarly essays, personal stories, practical suggestions and resources. It reflects cutting edge work on creative expression, meditative discipline and psychotherapeutic endeavour. Part I comprises five chapters written by the most prominent Authentic Movement practitioners and teachers, which introduce the foundations and principles of Authentic Movement. In Part II, the contributors return to the source of Authentic Movement the psychotherapeutic setting and provide an in-depth examination of aspects of therapeutic relationship and change. Part III traces the development of Authentic Movement as a spiritual practice or as interface with other spiritual practices. Part IV provides an overview of new developments in Authentic Movement, Part V offers inspiring personal accounts and Part VI provides guidelines drawn from practice. These latter chapters sow the seeds for a new understanding and directions for developments of Authentic Movement.This authoritative collection will be indispensable for practitioners of Authentic Movement, students and teachers working in the field of dance therapy, art therapists and psychoanalysts.
Contents: Introduction. Patrizia Pallaro, dance/movement therapist, marriage and family therapist in California and psychologist and psychotherapist in Italy. Part One. The Foundation. 1. From Autism to the Discipline of Authentic Movement. Janet Adler, dance/movement therapist and founding director of the Mary Starks Whitehouse Institute, MA. 2. Inner-Directed Movement in Analysis: Early Beginnings. Joan Chodorow, dance/movement therapist and Jungian analyst. 3. Reflections on Mary Starks Whitehouse. Susan Frieder, dance/movement therapist and clinical psychologist. 4. A Dancing Spirit: Remembering Mary Starks Whitehouse. Edith Sullwold, Jungian therapist, with Mary Ramsay, co-founder of Contemplative Dance. 5. Authentic Movement. Daphne Lowell, Professor of Dance and Movement Studies, Hampshire College, MA. 6. The Road In: Elements of the Study and Practice of Authentic Movement. Tina Stromsted, dance/movement therapist and psychotherapist and Neala Haze, Expressive Arts Therapist and founding director of the Authentic Movement Institute, CA. 7. Witnessing and the Chest of Drawers. Alton Wasson, co-founder of Contemplative Dance and consultant on issues of diversity and holistic education. Part Two. Psychotherapy. 8. Authentic Movement as Active Imagination. Penny Parker Lewis, dance/movement therapist, drama therapist, mental health counsellor and holistic health consultant and practitioner, MA. 9. Moving Towards Complexity: The Myth of Echo and Narcissus. Antonella Adorisio, psychologist and psychotherapist, Italy. 10. On Synchrony: Julie Joslyn Brown, psychoanalyst and art therapist and co-founder of the Training and Research Institute for Self Psychology, NY, and Zoe Avstreih, dance/movement therapist, counsellor and psychoanalyst, and director of the Dance/Movement Therapy Program at Naropa University, CO. 11. Journeying between Will and Surrender. Marcia Plevin, dance/ movement therapist, counsellor, psychologist, dancer and choreographer. 12. Authentic Movement in Clinical Work. Shira Musicant, dance/ movement therapist and marriage and family psychotherapist. 13. Authentic Movement: Clinical and Theoretical Considerations. Shira Musicant. 14. Against the Wall, Her Beating Heart: Working with the Somatic Aspects of Transference, Countertransference and Dissociation. Barbara Holifield, marriage and family psychotherapist, CA. 15. Merging and Differentiating. Wendy Wyman-McGinty, dance/movement therapist, clinical psychologist and Jungian analyst, LA. 16. Somatic Countertransference: The Therapist in Relationship. Patrizia Pallaro. 17. Authentic Movement: A Safe Place for Group Therapy. Anne Hebert Smith, dance/movement therapist, counsellor and teacher of Authentic Movement, CT. 18. The Dancing Body in Psychotherapy: Reflections on Somatic Psychology and Authentic Movement. Tina Stromsted. 19. The Body in Analysis: Authentic Movement and Witnessing in Analytic Practice. Wendy Wyman-McGinty. Part Three. Spirituality. 20. The Discipline of Authentic Movement as Mystical Practice: Evolving Moments in Janet Adler's Life and Work. Tina Stromsted. 21. From Seeing to Knowing. Janet Adler. 22. Achieving Body Permanence. Zoe Avstreih. 23. Calling Spirit Home: How Body Becomes Vessel for Spiritual Animation. Jeanne Castle, dance/movement therapist and psychotherapist. 24. Authentic Movement: A Theoretical Framework Based in Tibetan Buddhist Thought. Carol Fields, student of Organizational Psychology at John F. Kennedy University, CA. Part Four. New Horizons. 25. Authentic Movement as a Form of Dance Ritual. Daphne Lowell. 26. Being Seen, Being Moved: Authentic Movement and Performance. Andrea J. Olsen, Professor of Dance and faculty member in Environmental Studies at Middlebury College, VT. 27. Learning to Love: How Art Therapy and Authentic Movement Transform Being. Suzanne Lovell, coordinator of Psychology/Art Therapy Program at Sonoma State University, CA, and director of the Art Therapy Program at the Centre for the Creative
This book, like Authentic Movement, opens doors to the outside world as well as the inside one.
