The Routledge International Handbook of Embodied Perspectives in Psychotherapy : Approaches from Dance Movement and Body Psychotherapies (Hardcover)

Introduction: Helen Payne, UK; Sabine Koch, Germany; Jennifer Tantia, USA; and Thomas Fuchs, Germany

Foreword by Don Hanlon Johnson, Ph.D.

Foreword by Vassiliki Karkou

Foreword by Babette Rothchild

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 Dan 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 Psychotherapy and Body Psychotherapy Related to Findings from Embodiment Research - Johannes Michalak, Naomi Lyons, 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

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  - 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 Imus, USA

Body as Voice: Restorative Dance/Movement Psychotherapy with Survivors of Relational Trauma -  Amber Gray, USA

Psychological Re-Sources in Dance Movement Therapy -  Sylvie Ganero, France

Mother-son Transgenerational Transmission of Eating Issues in a Co-treatment Method using the Ways of Seeing Approach  - Alexander Girshon and Ekaterina Karatygina, Russia

Mother-son Transgenerational Transmission of Eating Issues Using a Co-treatment Method - 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 Rodriguez, Spain

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

Embodiment of Space in Relation to the Self and Others in Psychotherapy: Boundlessness, Emptiness, Fulness, and Betweeness  - Rainbow Ho, Hong Kong

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

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 and Meaning in Body Psychotherapy - Halko Weiss and Maci Daye, Germany

Embodied-relational Therapy - Nick Totton

Four Forms of Knowledge in Biosynthesis - David Boadella, Switzerland

The Relational Turn in Body Psychotherapy - Michael Soth, UK

Emotional Regulation in Body Psychotherapy - Ulf Geuter, Germany

The Embodiment of Dreams: Exploring mind/body connecting devices - Michel 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-Shahir, Israel Oppression and embodiment in psychotherapy - Rae Johnson, USA

Oppression and Embodiment in Psychotherapy - Rae Johnson, USA

Micro-movements: 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 Disembodiment: Effects of trauma on body perception and body image - Maurizio Stupiggia, Italy

Research informing body psychotherapy: A spotlight on emotions - Margit Koemeda-Lutz, Switzerland