France Schott-Billmann

Primitive Expression and Dance Therapy (eBook, PDF)

When dancing heals
Übersetzer: Holden, Terence

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

Drawing on the author's vast experience in the field of dance therapy, this book provides a rigorous and comprehensive account of primitive expression in dance therapy focussing on the use of rhythm, and drawing on traditions of popular culture throughout the world such as rock, rap and hip-hop dancing.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 210
• Erscheinungstermin: 5. Dezember 2014
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781317619161
• Artikelnr.: 42009195

Autorenporträt

France Schott-Billmann, PhD, is a Psychoanalyst, Dance Therapist and Dance Researcher. She was Program Leader within the Performing Arts section of the Arts Therapy Program at University Paris 5 Descartes in Paris for 20 years until 2011, where she now teaches dance therapy to masters students. She worked with adolescent psychotic patients in the CEREP psychiatric hospital in Paris for 15 years. At present she works at Bellan Hospital in Paris with patients suffering from Parkinson's disease. She teaches in various training programs in Europe and leads workshops all around the globe.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
PART ONE: OUR LINK TO THE WORLD
Chapter 1 Human-World Unity
A Plural Body
Dance and Neuroscience
Brain plasticity
The Memory of the Body
Rhythmic Patterns as Substitute Behaviours
Chapter 2 The link between Animal and Man: Ethology
Mirroring, Imitation and Simulacra
Non-Verbal Language
Playing
Rituals
Chapter 3 Humanization of Homo
The Origin of Humanity According to Paleontology
The Culture, a Second World
PART TWO: TRADITIONAL DANCE THERAPY
Chapter 4 Dances of Trance
The Trance of Possession
Therapeutic Possession
Dances of Possession
Enthusiasm
Chapter 5 Shamanism
Universality and the Persistence of Shamanism
An invisible World
The Shaman
A Shaman's Therapeutic Tools
The Shamanic Cure
PART THREE: THE HUMANIZING PROCESS
Chapter 6 The Universe of Fusion and its Dangers
The Permeable Body
Primary Narcissism
The Body Image
Psychosis
Autism
Chapter 7 Between Two
Intermediary Space
Transitional Creativity
Repetition in Rhythm Dance Therapy
Duplicating
Chapter 8 Gestural Symmetry Coupling with the Other
Symmetry in Rites, Games and Dances
The Dynamic Sources of Gestural Symmetry
The Corporeal Foundations of Gestural Symmetry
Gestural Symmetry in Dance
Restoring the Link
Application in the Treatment of Psychotic and Autistic Patients
The Therapeutic Treasure of Oral Cultures: Bilateralism
Chapter 9 Bilateralism as Structuring Dialogue
The pair Call-Reply
The Calling Power of Archetypes
The Pairing of Opposites
Chapter 10 Symbolization
Descending to the Underworld
The Liberating Rhythm
The Separation from the Animal Kingdom
Fort-Da 'Dance'
The Paternal function
PART FOUR: THERAPEUTIC PROCESS
Chapter 11 The healing process
The Creation of meaning
Symbolic reorganization
Pacifying, Mastering and Structuring
Sublimation
Primitive Aesthetics
Chapter 12 Rhythm Dance Therapy
Popular Dances for Therapeutic Mediation
Rhythm Dance Therapy using Primitive Expression
Therapeutic Tools in Primitive Expression
Ethics
Chapter 13 New fields in the Application of Dance Therapy
The Social Field and Dancing for Peace
Clinical Applications: Neurological Disorders
Conclusion
BIBLIOGRAPHY
INDEX