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Overview
Authentic Movement, created by Mary Starks Whitehouse and subsequently developed by Janet Adler and Joan Chodorow, approaches dance and movement therapy from a Jungian perspective. The basic concepts of Authentic Movement are expressed for the first time in one volume through interviews and conversations with these important figures, and their key papers. They emphasize the importance of movement as a means of communication, particularly movement which is unconscious or 'authentic', emerging when the individual has a deep, self-sensing awareness an attitude of 'inner listening'. Such movement can trigger powerful images, feelings and memories arising from as early as infancy or childhood.Incl. interviews & conversations emph. movement as means of communication; Jung & Dance Therapy, Active Imagination, etc
Synopsis
Authentic Movement, created by Mary Starks Whitehouse and subsequently developed by Janet Adler and Joan Chodorow, approaches dance and movement therapy from a Jungian perspective. The basic concepts of Authentic Movement are expressed for the first time in one volume through interviews and conversations with these important figures, and their key papers. They emphasize the importance of movement as a means of communication, particularly movement which is unconscious or 'authentic', emerging when the individual has a deep, self-sensing awareness an attitude of 'inner listening'. Such movement can trigger powerful images, feelings and memories arising from as early as infancy or childhood.
Booknews
Pallaro (psychology and dance/movement therapy) presents interviews, conversations, and papers by Whitehouse, Adler, and Choderow, key figures who defined authentic movement as a way to explore the unconscious. They emphasize the importance of movement as a means of communication and as an attitude of inner listening. They maintain that such movement can trigger powerful images, feelings and kinesthetic sensations arising from the depths of our stored childhood memories or connecting our inner selves to the transcendent. Distributed by Taylor & Francis. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)