Dance Movement Therapy

Abstract

Preface Helen Payne, Introduction - Embodiment in Action Helen Payne, Opening doors: Dance movement therapy with people with dementia Ute Kowarzik, Dance movement therapy in the community: Group work with people with enduring mental health difficulties Vicky Karkou, Dancing with demons: Dance movement therapy and complex post traumatic stress disorder Jeanette MacDonald, Dance movement therapy with patients with Parkinson's Disease Jill Bunce, Stretching, tensing and kicking: Aspects of infantile movement in dance movement therapy with children and adolescents in special education Sara Bannerman-Haig, Hidden treasures, hidden voices: An ethnographic study into the use of movement and creativity in psychosocial work with war affected children in Serbia Allison Jane Singer, The body of culture: Transcultural competence in dance movement therapy Sara Boas, Another royal road: Freudian thought applied to authentic movement Kedzie Penfield, Birth moves: Dance movement therapy and holistic birth preparation Monica Steiner-Celebi, Embodiment in dance movement therapy training and practice Bonnie Meekums, The lived experience of students in a dance movement therapy group: Loss, physical contact and the dance movement therapy approach Helen Payne, Dance movement therapy with dance students: 'Special ingredients' in the development of playfulness, self confidence and relationship Jill Hayes, Full circle: From choreography to dance movement therapy and back Rosa Shreeves