Tanztherapie

Short Description

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.

Biographical Note

Elke Willke, Dr. phil, Dipl. Psych., Dipl. Sportl., Lehrtherapeutin und Supervisorin EAG/FPI und Ausbilderin/Supervisorin DGT, Jahrgang 1944, Studium von Sport und Tanz an der Deutschen Sporthochschule Köln, Studium der Psychologie in Tübingen, tanztherapeutische Ausbildung in den USA bei Joan Smallwood, Trudi Schoop u.a., Ausbildung in Gestalttherapie am Gestalt Institut/San Francisco. Abschluss in Integrativer Therapie und Lehrtrainerausbildung am Fritz Perls Institut (EAG/FPI), Mitbegründerin der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Tanztherapie (DGT), langjähriger Vorstand/Geschäftsführung. Kassenärztliche Praxis in Pulheim.