Reichert Verlag

For the first time, this book presents and discusses the methods and techniques of Integrative Dance Therapy, and illustrates crucial aspects with cases and examples.

The book starts with a historical overview of the development of dance therapy. It positions dance therapy within the context of body-centered approaches and discusses the factors and forces of therapeutic impact. In the second part the author presents selected concepts of dance, each of which focusses specifically on the body, on movement, and on expression. The components of dance are screened for their usefulness for dance-therapeutic work. The book offers numerous examples and thus connects the analysis to actual therapeutic praxis.

The book offers a profound and differentiated explanation and characterization of Integrative Dance Therapy, and sets it apart from other body-centered therapeutic approaches. It elaborates concepts of dance and their methods and techniques, and thus demonstrates the varieties and the multitude of possible approaches and procedures. For all those interested in body-centered therapies, movement therapies and psychotherapy it provides an elaborated view of the instruments and concepts of Integrated Dance Therapy.