Posthuman Possibilities of Dance Movement Psychotherapy

Moving through Ecofeminist and New Materialist Entanglements of Differently Enabled Bodies in Research
1. Auflage 2023
ISBN: 978-1-032-34535-2
Verlag: Routledge

Buch, Englisch, 186 Seiten, Format (B × H): 161 mm x 240 mm, Gewicht: 452 g

Reihe: Routledge Research in Creative Arts and Expressive Therapies

This timely book explores an eco-feminist approach to dance movement psychotherapy, with an emphasis on the posthuman possibilities of differently enabled bodies and fostering social, political and environmental justice.

Using the lenses of posthumanism and new materialism, this book examines the points of convergence among dance movement psychotherapy, eco-psychotherapy and critical disability studies. It maps out the experience of building care, empathy and kinship and explores ecologically informed, embodied practices and research while offering new perspectives on these practices. Structured using thematic ‘interruptions’ between chapters to anchor the reading experience and provide coherence, chapters include case study extracts as examples from the practice, spanning group work and individual therapy with autistic and learning disabled children and young people, as well as with neurotypical adult clients in private practice.

Bringing together practice and research in dance movement psychotherapy along with cutting-edge theoretical perspectives of new materialism and posthumanism, the book will be of great interest to researchers and students of dance therapy, arts therapies, eco-psychotherapy and disability studies. It will also be useful to practitioners and therapists in psychotherapy and well-being services.

Zielgruppe

Postgraduate

Autoren/Hrsg.

Frizell, Caroline

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Psychologie Psychologie / Allgemeines & Theorie Psychologische Theorie, Psychoanalyse
• Sozialwissenschaften Psychologie Psychotherapie / Klinische Psychologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Prologue: Cliff moves 1. Becoming  Interruption 1: Have you come to see her?  2. Creating eco-feminist perspectives through new materialist and posthuman entanglements.  Interruption 2: The guises of blessings  3. Difference as engagement with equality diversity and inclusion: disability (for example) as a marker of difference  Interruption 3: Reigniting the dance.  4. Dance movement psychotherapy (DMP) through the poetry of eco- feminism  Interruption 4: Dream  5. Ecopsychology; an embodied immersion I environmental justice.  Interruption 5: Coming Down to Earth  6. Research as practice: practice-led inquiry.  Interruption 6: In the face of the storm  7. Practising as a craft.  Interruption 7: Jacob  8. Endings  Epilogue: Existential wonderings and wanderings

Über Autor(innen)

Caroline Frizell is Senior Lecturer in Dance Movement Psychotherapy at Goldsmiths, University of London, UK, and an ecologically informed dance movement psychotherapist, supervisor and author.