Impact of Touch in Dance Movement Psychotherapy

Body–Mind Centering programme director and Dance Movement psychotherapist, Katy Dymoke works with children,adults and all abilities in a reciprocal experiential process. In writing about her practice, Katy seeks tosupport others to examine and grow as practitioners.

• List of figuresPreface and chapter summaryAcknowledgementsAbbreviationsChapter 1. Introduction1.1 Background: Touch a natural language1.2 A 'touch revolution' in a dance–sport called contact improvisation 1.3 The sensory and sexual differentiation of touch, co-operation and responsibility1.4 Touch - a way of 'seeing' or a mutual place of being?1.5 The psychotherapist becomes researcherChapter 2. The personal and professional quests 2.1 The sensory acuity of touch – contemplating a pathway of change2.2 Literature on touch; the absent body - the 'touch or no-touch' debate 2.3 The pro-touch discourse explored and explained2.4 Relational aspects; the subjectivities of 'touching subject' - 'touched object'2.5 Theories of consciousness2.6 The matter of the psyche; or what matter is the psyche? SummaryChapter 3. The research design – defining roles3.1. A qualitative framework and mixed method approach3.2. Defining the selves: The multiple subjectivities 3.3. Data analysis – methods and implementationChapter 4. Embodied Ethics4.1. Earning legitimacy and ethical approval4.2. Towards an embodied ethics; a phenomenological insight4.3. The Research Governance Framework, an intransigent construct4.4. The ethical demise of embodied ethics4.5. The Integrated Research Application System (IRAS)Chapter 5. CASE STUDY SESSION 1: Transcript and data analysis'You child angry heart?'Amanda as participant; managing autonomy.Chapter 6. CASE STUDY SESSION 4: Transcript and data analysisEstablishing a mutual language; beyond good and bad touchTowards introspection, an intrapersonal and transpersonal approachTying in the thread of integrative approaches to Dance Movement PsychotherapyChapter 7. CASE STUDY SESSION 6: Transcript and data analysis Chapter 8. FINDING AN ENDING AND EMERGENT THEORYChapter 9. TOWARDS A THEORY OF RECEPTIVITY; Touching once again upon touchArriving at receptivity – an 'ethic of care' (Etherington 2007: 604). The pre-ontological space and time domain of the bodyAppendix 1. Embodied Ethics continuedPart 1. The co-researcher role and the ethics of inclusive research-seduction or sensitivity, occlusion or collusion; a question of 'capacity'? Part 2. Ethical issues in mixed methodological researchPart 3. Hope at Hand – the ethics of research and the ethics of treatmentSummaryAppendix 2. For Chapter 5, diagrams 1-4 and 5. (i) and (ii)Appendix 3. For Chapter 6. Prehension theory diagram,Appendix 4. For Chapter 8. Client competence, session 1 and 10Appendix 5. Martz and Lindy, The trauma Membrane Concept (2010)Appendix 6. Perceptual-Response Cycle

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