Dance/movement as active imagination : origins, theory, practice

A dissertation submitted to the Union Graduate School in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in Psychology, June 14, 1988.

Origins: through dance to dance therapy. Theory: depth psychology. Practice: dance/movement as active imagination. Summary and conclusions

'...I've described my own individual, unique experience. I've also compared it with the work of other dance therapists. Throughout I have sought to show how dance/movement has become of value to psychotherapy, particularly as one of the forms of Jung's technique of active imagination. My own transition from dancer to dance therapist and Jungian analyst illusgtrates this continuity from dance to psychotherapy. I have provided a theoretical grounding for dance/movement in Jung's analytical psychology....' --Summary and conclusions

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