An interview with Janet Adler

Abstract

Janet Adler, Ph.D., ADTR, has been a dance/movement therapist since 1963 when she trained with Marian Chace at St. Elizabeth's Hospital in Washington, D.C. She documented her work with autistic children in the award winning film “Looking For Me,” in 1968. A student of Mary Whitehouse, the first person to describe Authentic Movement, Janet further developed the work and, in 1981 founded and directed the Mary Starks Whitehouse Institute, the first school for Authentic Movement. Since moving to Northern California in 1985, she has been leading training groups in the study and practice of Authentic Movement. In 1988, she created a film about Authentic Movement called “Still Looking,” and completed her doctoral degree in mystical studies in 1992. She currently lectures, offers groups in the United States, Europe, and teaches in the Authentic Movement Institute in the San Francisco Bay Area.