Dance Movement Psychotherapy

Helen Payne is an accredited psychotherapist and senior registered dance movement therapist. She is Reader in Counselling and Therapeutic Studies at the University of Hertfordshire, facilitates authentic movement groups and runs a small private practice

Preface Helen Payne, Introduction – Embodiment in Action Helen Payne, Opening doors: Dance movement therapy with people with dementia Ute Kowarzik, Dance movement therapy in the community: Group work with people with enduring mental health difficulties Vicky Karkou, Dancing with demons: Dance movement therapy and complex post traumatic stress disorder Jeanette MacDonald, Dance movement therapy with patients with Parkinson’s Disease Jill Bunce, Stretching, tensing and kicking: Aspects of infantile movement in dance movement therapy with children and adolescents in special education Sara Bannerman-Haig, Hidden treasures, hidden voices: An ethnographic study into the use of movement and creativity in psychosocial work with war affected children in Serbia Allison Jane Singer, The body of culture: Transcultural competence in dance movement therapy Sara Boas, Another royal road: Freudian thought applied to authentic movement Kedzie Penfield, Birth moves: Dance movement therapy and holistic birth preparation Monica Steiner-Celebi, Embodiment in dance movement therapy training and practice Bonnie Meekums, The lived experience of students in a dance movement therapy group: Loss, physical contact and the dance movement therapy approach Helen Payne, Dance movement therapy with dance students: `Special ingredients’ in the development of playfulness, self confidence and relationship Jill Hayes, Full circle: From choreography to dance movement therapy and back Rosa Shreeves