Abstract
Dance/movement therapy may be conceptualized as an embodied and enactive form of psychotherapy. The embodied enactive approach
looks at individuals as living systems characterized by plasticity and permeability (moment-to-moment adaptations within the self and toward the environment),
autonomy, sense-making, emergence, experience, and striving for balance. Enaction and embodiment emphasize the roles that
body motion and sensorimotor experience play in the formation of concepts and abstract thinking. A theoretical framework and
a perspective on professional practice in dance/movement therapy are herein offered as influenced by interdisciplinary embodied
and enactive approaches deriving from cognitive sciences and phenomenology. The authors assert that dance/movement therapy,
enaction, and embodiment fruitfully contribute to one another.
looks at individuals as living systems characterized by plasticity and permeability (moment-to-moment adaptations within the self and toward the environment),
autonomy, sense-making, emergence, experience, and striving for balance. Enaction and embodiment emphasize the roles that
body motion and sensorimotor experience play in the formation of concepts and abstract thinking. A theoretical framework and
a perspective on professional practice in dance/movement therapy are herein offered as influenced by interdisciplinary embodied
and enactive approaches deriving from cognitive sciences and phenomenology. The authors assert that dance/movement therapy,
enaction, and embodiment fruitfully contribute to one another.
- Content Type Journal Article
- Pages 1-16
- DOI 10.1007/s10465-011-9108-4
- Authors
- Sabine C. Koch, Institute of Psychology, University of Heidelberg, Hauptstr. 47-51, 69117 Heidelberg, Germany
- Diana Fischman, Programa de Entrenamiento en Danza Movimiento Terapia de Buenos Aires–Brecha, Quesada 3468 C 1430 AXB, Buenos Aires, Argentina
- Journal American Journal of Dance Therapy
- Online ISSN 1573-3262
- Print ISSN 0146-3721