The Meaning of Movement

Janet Kestenberg Amighi, PhD, MSS, MLSP, has a doctorate in anthropology and graduate degrees in social work and social policy. She serves as President of Child Development Research. She authored The Zoroastrians of Iran and numerous journal articles. The daughter of Judith Kestenberg, she has co-taught the KMP at the Laban/Bartenieff Institute for Movement Studies, Drexel University, and Allameh Tabataba’i University in Iran. Susan Loman, MA, BC-DMT, NCC, Professor Emerita and former Director of the MA Program in Dance/Movement Therapy and Counseling, Antioch University New England, is a board-certified member of the American Dance Therapy Association and a National Certified Counselor.She also served as co-editor of the American Journal of Dance Therapy. K. Mark Sossin, PhD, Professor of Psychology at Pace University, is a clinical psychologist, researcher, and psychoanalyst with particular interests in infancy, psychotherapeutic methods, psychopathology, autism, family systems, trauma and its transmission, and movement/nonverbal behavior. He directs the Laboratory of Mind, Movement, Interaction, and Development.

Preface. Section I: The Kestenberg Movement Profile Explained. Introduction. 1. Tension Flow Rhythms 2. Tension Flow Attributes 3. Precursors of Effort (Commonly Referred to as Pre-Efforts) 4. Efforts 5. Bipolar Shape Flow 6. Unipolar Shape Flow 7. Shape Flow Design 8. Shaping in Directions 9. Shaping in Planes Section II: Clinical and Research Applications. 10. Clinical Contributions Employing the Kestenberg Movement Profile (KMP) 11. KMP of Joey and Dance/Movement Therapy (DMT) Clinical Applications 12. Musings on Theoretical and Research Contributions of the KMP Within the Context of Nonverbal Studies. Section III: Interpreting the KMP 13. Reviewing the Body Attitude and Interpreting Movement Patterns through KMP Diagrams