Soul's Body

Active Imagination, Authentic Movement, and Embodiment in Psychotherapy
1. Auflage 2025
ISBN: 978-1-032-88547-6
Verlag: Routledge

Buch, Englisch, 292 Seiten, Format (B × H): 161 mm x 240 mm, Gewicht: 608 g

Dr. Tina Stromsted introduces her Soul’s Body® approach in this extraordinary volume, engaging the body–psyche connection in psychotherapeutic work. Through compelling case studies, the author illustrates multidisciplinary concepts, therapeutic techniques, trauma-informed practices, and essential teaching guidelines for body–psyche–spirit healing.

Stromsted’s method expands Authentic Movement, rooted in Jung’s Active Imagination approach, into a range of creative somatic practices within depth psychotherapy. Soul’s Body® cultivates deeper self-awareness through bodily expression, dreamwork, creative imagination, empathic relationship, community engagement, and our connection with nature. This collection illuminates elements in the embodied healing process that can benefit professionals in the healing arts—Jungian analysts, clinicians, somatic psychotherapists, dancers, bodyworkers, artists, students, spiritual practitioners, and creative arts therapists. With over 45 years of clinical experience and decades of collaborations with pioneering clinicians Joan Chodorow, Marion Woodman, Janet Adler, and Stanley Keleman, Stromsted guides readers on an engaging journey toward conscious embodiment.

This book is an essential resource for anyone interested in Jungian depth work, embodied spirituality, and cultivating a vital, meaningful life.

Zielgruppe

Professional Practice & Development and Professional Reference

Autoren/Hrsg.

Stromsted, Tina

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Psychologie Psychotherapie / Klinische Psychologie
• Sozialwissenschaften Psychologie Psychologie / Allgemeines & Theorie Psychologische Theorie, Psychoanalyse Psychoanalyse (C.G. Jung)

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction Part 1: Spirit in the Body: Beginnings 1. The Evolution of Soul’s Body Work 2. Healing Soul’s Body: Active Imagination in Movement Part 2: On the Journey: Core Elements 3. Embodied Imagination: From Emptiness to Form 4. Meeting the Shadow: Becoming More Whole 5. Witnessing Practice: Seeing and Being Seen 6. Reinhabiting the Body 7. Embodied Descent: Steps Toward Transformation Part 3: Movement in Practice 8. The Moving Body in Psychotherapy 9. Working with Trauma: Awakening Psyche and Soma 10. Transforming Life: Movement as Meditation, Medicine, and Artistic Expression 11. Teaching Active Imagination in Movement with Neala Haze 12. Working with Authentic Movement in Groups Part 4: Embracing the Body, Healing the Soul 13. Embodied Alchemy: A Pathway to the Sacred 14. BodySoul Rhythms®: Marion Woodman and the Sacred Feminine 15. DreamDancing®: Embodied Consciousness 16. Earth’s Body: Resonating with the Pulse of Life 17. Further Reflections and Looking Forward Glossary Resources

Über Autor(innen)

Tina Stromsted, PhD, LMFT, LPCC, BC-DMT, RSME/T, SEP, is a Jungian analyst, dance/movement and somatic psychotherapist, public speaker, and author. Director of Soul’s Body® Center and cofounder of the Authentic Movement Institute, she teaches at the C. G. Jung Institute of San Francisco, Jung Platform, the Marion Woodman Foundation, and internationally. She has a private practice in San Francisco.