Authentic movement : moving the body, moving the self, being moved : a collection of essays, volume two

Part 1 - The foundation. From autism to the discipline of authentic movement - Janet Adler. Inner-directed movement in analysis: early beginnings - Joan Chodorow. Reflections on Mary Starks Whitehouse - Susan Frieder. A dancing spirit: remembering Mary Starks Whitehouse - Edith Sullwold with Mary Ramsay. Authentic movement - Daphne Lowell. The road in: elements of the study and practice of authentic movement - Tina Stromsted and Neala Haze. Witnessing and the chest of drawers - Alton Wasson. Part 2 - Psychotherapy. Authentic movement as active imagination - Penny Parker Lewis. Moving towards complexity: the myth of Echo and Narcissus - Antonella Adorisio. On synchrony - Julie Joslyn Brown and Zoe Avstreih. Journeying between will and surrender in authentic movement: a personal and clinical perspective - Marcia Plevin. Authentic movement in clinical work - Shira Musicant. Authentic movement: clinical and theoretical considerations - Shira Musicant. Against the wall, her beating heart: working with the somatic aspects of transference, countertransference and dissociation - Barbara Holifield. Merging and differentiating - Wendy Wyman-McGinty. Somatic counter transference: the therapist in relationship - Patrizia Pallaro. Authentic movement: a safe place for group therapy - Anne Hebert Smith. The dancing body in psychotherapy: reflections on somatic psychotherapy and authentic movement / Tina Stromsted. The body in analysis: authentic movement and witnessing in analytic practice / Wendy Wyman-McGinty. Part 3 - Spirituality. The discipline of authentic movement as mystical practice: evolving moments in Janet Adler's life and work - Tina Stromsted. From seeing to knowing - Janet Adler. Achieving body permanence: authentic movement and the paradox of healing - Zoe Avstreih. Calling spirit home: how body becomes vessel for spiritual animation - Jeanne Castle. Authentic movement: a theoretical framework based in Tibetan Buddhist thought - Carol Fields. Part 4 - New Horizons. Authentic movement as a form of dance ritual - Daphne Lowell. Being seen, being moved: authentic movement and performance -Andrea J. Olsen. Learning to love: how art therapy and authentic movement transform being - Suzanne Lovell. Moving toward health: authentic movement and breast cancer - Sandy Dibbell-Hope. The discovery of deep ecology through the body: a practice in authentic movement - Cassielle Alaya Bull. Oracles: authentic movement and the I Ching - Susan Bauer. Authentic movement: from embryonic curl to creative thrust - Ariane Goodwin. The pleasure of the text: embodying classical theatrical language through the practice of authentic movement - Judith Koltai. The movement of all things: authentic movement and quantum physics - Marcia Plevin. Moving the outer rim in: authentic movement and nonviolence - Lisa Tsetse. Part 5 - Personal stories. Shadow and other - Sandy Dibbell-Hope. Dances left in time and space: passing on lineage with grace - Heidi Ehrenreich. Unlocking, unblocking the temple door - Wendy Goulston. There is an angel - Soraya Jorge. The seeker and the seer - Bill McCully. Tracing the brace - Margareta Neuberger. Riding the wave's edge - Jan Sandman. Moving and seeing: manhood come tumbling down - Sox Sperry. Stirred to action - David Mars. Questions: teaching the discipline / Janet Adler. Guidelines in practice: authentic movement in a leaderless group / Leaderless Berkley Collective 1995. Authentic movement: guidelines for a Providence Shared Lead Group / Lynn Garland.

'This second volume on Authentic Movement--a new discipline aiding the creative process in choreography, writing, theatre performance, dance, graphic and expressive arts, as well as spirituality--is an engaging and dynamic collection of scholarly essays, personal stories, practical suggestions and resources. It reflects cutting edge work on creative expression, meditative discipline and psychotherapeutic endeavour.'

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