Using a contemporary synthesis of Jungian and Post-Jungian imaginal perspectives, animate ecological phenomenology, somatics and recent scholarship in dance movement and progressive spiritualities, this unique book discusses how the promotion of a fluid relationship between imagination and movement can bring the mover back into relationship with soul and spirit. This connection with soul and spirit is considered as an essential and powerful resource in mental health. The book provides a rich digest of theory and produces a clear framework for the application of transpersonal theories to Dance Movement Psychotherapy (DMP) practice, writing and research, illustrating the use and value of transpersonal perspectives through detailed case studies.
Providing spiritual, soulful and mythological perspectives on DMP rooted in theory and practice, this book will be essential reading for dance movement psychotherapists, drama psychotherapists, expressive arts therapists, and dance movement psychotherapy students, drama psychotherapy students and arts therapy students.
Table of Content
Foreword by Daria Halprin. 1. Transpersonal Dance Movement Psychotherapy Practice: Sensing, Feeling and Imagining Soul and Spirit with Butterfly. 2. Transpersonal Dance Movement Psychotherapy Writing and Research: Languaging Soul and Spirit with Hawk. 3. Listening to the Animate Earth. 4. Listening to Archetypes. 5. Listening to the Flow of Life. 6. Energizing the Archetypes. 7. Story as Soul Journey. 8. Re-perceiving Dance Movement Psychotherapy from a Transpersonal Perspective.
About the author
Daria Halprin trained since early childhood as a dancer and performance artist and toured internationally in the Dancers’ Workshop Company. She has appeared in several films, most noteably in Antonioni’s Zabriskie Point. She studied with Fritz Perl, the originator of Gestalt Therapy, which led to her interest in psychology. In 1978 she co-founded the Tamalpa Institute, the first training center for movement-based expressive arts therapy, where she developed and codified her approach. She holds a Masters degree in psychology, is a gestalt therapist and a registered expressive arts therapist. She conducts trainings at the Tamalpa Institute, teaches internationally and has a private practice in Marin County, California.
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