Essentials of Dance Movement Psychotherapy

Helen Payne is an accredited psychotherapist and senior registered dance movement therapist. She is a Professor of psychotherapy at the University of Hertfordshire, facilitates authentic movement groups; has a small private practice; and is clinical manager for Pathways2Wellbeing, a university spin-out delivering healthcare services.

• PrefaceAcknowledgementsForeword by Marianne Eberhard-Kaechele1 Introduction: Experiencing inter-corporality and professional learning HELEN PAYNE, UKPart I: Theory 2 Relational dance movement psychotherapy: A new old idea SISSY LYKOU, UK3 Dynamic equilibrium: Engaging neurophysiological intelligences through dance/movement therapy KALILA HOMANN, USA4 Conscious movement sequencing: The core of the dance/movement therapy experience CHRISTINE CALDWELL, USA 5 A phase model of growth in dance therapy SUSANNE BENDER, GERMANYPart II Research6 Gestalt and dance movement psychotherapy: Moving towards integration through practice and research in adults with eating disorders YEVA FELDMAN, UK7 The use of touch in dance/movement therapy: A phenomenological study ELINA CAUNA AND KRISTINE VENDE-KOTOVA, LATVIA8 A dance informed contribution to nonverbal interpersonal relating in autism spectrum disorders ROSEMARIE SAMARITTER, THE NETHERLANDS9 Movement-based supervision for Korean arts therapies students KYUNG SOON KO, SOUTH KOREA Part III Practice10 Reliable change in outcomes from The BodyMind Approach™ with people who have medically unexplained symptoms/somatic symptom disorder in primary health care HELEN PAYNE, UK11 Overcoming trauma: When verbal language is not enough DITA FEDERMAN AND GALIT ZANA, ISRAEL12 I am here with you: Dance movement therapy and music therapy as a marriage of empathy in the special school setting SARA OWEN, UK13 Holding and adolescent angst: Significant moments within a dance movement psychotherapy group in a mainstream secondary school JULIE JOSEPH AND VICKY KARKOU, UK14 The recovery journey: The place and value of dance movement psychotherapy with clients with alcohol or substance misuse PAM FISHER, UKAppendixAssociationsTraining coursesJournals

"What a moving adventure to read Prof. Helen Payne’s new book! It guides us into dance movement (psycho) therapy as an established, yet evolving, embodied practice. The 14 chapters by both old and new generation dance therapists break new ground in their depth and scope, guided by Marianne Eberhard-Kaechele’s recognition that "a discipline is held together by a shared epistemology, but it must remain flexible, to adapt to changing requirements of patients, health care, society and the individual development of therapists over time".-Marja Cantell, Ph.D., Research Coach, Master of Arts Therapies, Codarts University of the Arts, Rotterdam, the Netherlands."This book covers DMP theory, research and practice with global perspective and is an essential reading for the students, researchers, educators and practitioners in the field of creative arts education and/or therapy/psychotherapy/mental health as well as special and somatic education. Professor Helen Payne with other contributors demonstrates with rich materials in the volume the wisdom and values of our expressive and amazing body/movement which we tend to neglect and separate from our mind. Whatever your background, you will be enlightened by the insightful and cutting edge thinking in each of the chapters."-Tony Y. Zhou, Ph.D., CMA, Founder, Inspirees Institute of Creative Arts Therapy, China.