The Impact of Touch in Dance Movement Psychotherapy

Katy Dymoke

Description

This book explores the therapeutic use of touch, focusing on an in-depth case study of work in an NHS setting with a client with learning disabilities, and situating this within a wide theoretical context. This is a unique and influential study illustrating the impact of touch in dance movement psychotherapy and laying the ground for a theory on the use of touch in Dance Movement Psychotherapy (DMP).

The case study illustrates the impact of touch upon the therapeutic relationship with the use of video transcription and descriptive reflexive accounts of the session content. The case analysis sections establish the ground for a paradigm shift, and for emergent theory and methods in support of the use of touch in Dance Movement Psychotherapy and other contexts. The role touch takes is beyond its affect, which expands our understanding of its potency as an intervention. The writing is embedded in many years of practice-led-research in the field of dance and somatic practices, in particular Body-Mind Centering® and Contact Improvisation, in which touching and being touched is met with curiosity as a place of insight and revelation, beyond the bounds of taboo and social diktat.

The study considers the philosophical landscape of both touch and non-touch. This book explores and reflects upon the use of touch, considering the wider context and socially imposed perceptions that would prevent touch from taking place – including philosophical and social discourses. Through telling the story of a client case, the book offers a wealth of thought-provoking content to inspire continued dialogue.

Key strengths of this book are the depth, warmth and perceptiveness of the case history, and the way in which this is successfully linked with theory. Particular attention is paid to embodied cognition and exosystemic theory, the two leading developments of current thinking.

With the ethical, practical and philosophical content, the book will be of interest to psychotherapists, health and social care practitioners, as well as arts in health practitioners and beneficiaries in educational programs and settings.

Primary readership will be among DMP psychotherapists, body psychotherapists, drama therapists, Body Mind Centering® practitioners, arts in health practitioners, people working with clients with learning disabilities and any practitioner and researcher interested in understanding the role touch may play in the psychotherapeutic encounter.

List of figures

Preface and chapter summary

Acknowledgements

Abbreviations

Chapter 1. Introduction

1.1 Background: Touch a natural language

1.2 A 'touch revolution' in a dance–sport called contact improvisation 

1.3 The sensory and sexual differentiation of touch, co-operation and responsibility

1.4 Touch - a way of 'seeing' or a mutual place of being?

1.5 The psychotherapist becomes researcher

Chapter 2. The personal and professional quests 2.1 The sensory acuity of touch – contemplating a pathway of change

2.2 Literature on touch; the absent body - the 'touch or no-touch' debate 

2.3 The pro-touch discourse explored and explained

2.4 Relational aspects; the subjectivities of 'touching subject' - 'touched object'

2.5 Theories of consciousness

2.6 The matter of the psyche; or what matter is the psyche? Summary

Chapter 3. The research design – defining roles

3.1. A qualitative framework and mixed method approach

3.2. Defining the selves: The multiple subjectivities 

3.3. Data analysis – methods and implementation

Chapter 4. Embodied Ethics

4.1. Earning legitimacy and ethical approval

4.2. Towards an embodied ethics; a phenomenological insight

4.3. The Research Governance Framework, an intransigent construct

4.4. The ethical demise of embodied ethics

4.5. The Integrated Research Application System (IRAS)

Chapter 5. CASE STUDY SESSION 1: Transcript and data analysis

'You child angry heart?'

Amanda as participant; managing autonomy.

Chapter 6. CASE STUDY SESSION 4: Transcript and data analysis

Establishing a mutual language; beyond good and bad touch

Towards introspection, an intrapersonal and transpersonal approach

Tying in the thread of integrative approaches to Dance Movement Psychotherapy

Chapter 7. CASE STUDY SESSION 6: Transcript and data analysis



Chapter 8. FINDING AN ENDING AND EMERGENT THEORY

Chapter 9. TOWARDS A THEORY OF RECEPTIVITY; Touching once again upon touch

Arriving at receptivity – an 'ethic of care' (Etherington 2007: 604). 

The pre-ontological space and time domain of the body

Appendix 1. Embodied Ethics continued

Part 1. The co-researcher role and the ethics of inclusive research-seduction or sensitivity, occlusion or collusion; a question of 'capacity'?

Part 2. Ethical issues in mixed methodological research

Part 3. Hope at Hand – the ethics of research and the ethics of treatment

Summary

Appendix 2. For Chapter 5, diagrams 1-4 and 5. (i) and (ii)

Appendix 3. For Chapter 6. Prehension theory diagram,

Appendix 4. For Chapter 8. Client competence, session 1 and 10

Appendix 5. Martz and Lindy, The trauma Membrane Concept (2010)

Appendix 6. Perceptual-Response Cycle 

Sujets

• Social Science
• Performing Arts
• Sociologie, société et politique
• General officer
• Psychotherapy
• Anthropology
• Health
• Dance
• General
• Social
• Culture

Informations

• Publié par: Intellect Books
• Date de parution: 22 octobre 2021
• Nombre de lectures: 0
• EAN13: 9781789384581
• Langue: English
• Poids de l'ouvrage: 9 Mo

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He Impact o Touch in Dance Movement Psychotherapy

He Impact of Touch in Dance Movement Psychotherapy

A Body-Mind ® Centering Approach

Katy Dymoke

e primary research for this book was underTaken in clinical settings in the National Health Service.

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To Liam and Sam

Lîst o Fîgures Preace Acknowledgements Abbrevîatîons

Contents

1. Introductîon The care context Background: Touch a ‘natural language’ A ‘touch revolutîon’ în a dance-sport called Contact Improvîsatîon The sensory and sexual dîferentîatîon o touch: Co-operatîon and responsîbîlîty Touch – a way o ‘seeîng’ or a mutual place o ‘beîng’ The psychotherapîst becomes researcher – methodologîcal acuîty

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2. The Personal and Proessîonal Quests 18 The sensory acuîty o touch – contemplatîng a pathway o change 21 Lîterature on touch: The absent body – the ‘touch or no-touch’ debate 22 The pro-touch dîscourse explored and explaîned 26 Relatîonal aspects: The subjectîvîtîes o ‘touchîng subject’ and ‘touched object’ 31 Theorîes o conscîousness – establîshîng a sae space wîth, by and or touch – the membrane returns 37 The matter o the psyche, or what matter îs the psyche? Meetîng the movîng membrane 43 Summary 46

3. The Research Desîgn – Definîng Roles Context Breakîng new ground

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THE IMPACT OF TOUCH IN DANCE MOVEMENT PSYCHOTHERAPY

A qualîtatîve ramework and mîxed-method approach

Definîng the partîcîpant selves: The multîple subjectîvîtîes

Data analysîs – methods and împlementatîon

4. Embodîed Ethîcs Earnîng legîtîmacy and ethîcal approval – explorîng the gaps, collîsîons and dîvîsîons Towards an embodîed ethîcs wîthîn a dîsembodîed ethîcal ramework The Research Governance Framework: An întransîgent construct The ethîcal demîse o embodîed ethîcs The Integrated Research Applîcatîon System

5. Case Study Sessîon 1: Transcrîpt and Data Analysîs Introductîon to the transcrîpt Sessîon 1: ‘You chîld angry heart?’ Vîdeo transcrîpt and data analysîs Amanda as partîcîpant: Managîng autonomy Therapeutîc împact

6. Case Study Sessîon 4: Transcrîpt and Data Analysîs Introductîon Establîshîng a mutual language: Beyond good and bad touch Towards întrospectîon, an întrapersonal and transpersonal approach Tyîng în the thread o întegratîve approaches to dance movement psychotherapy (DMP): Makîng a case or touch

7. Case Study Sessîon 6: Transcrîpt and Data Analysîs Arrîval: Pre-touch ‘You touch my ’art’

‘No ’urtîng me.’ Touch at the ruptured membrane – explorîng the

(un)conscîous languages o trauma healîng

Touchîng at the ruptured trauma membrane: A summatîve înterpretatîon

‘No talkîng [he]art’

Fîndîng equîlîbrîum through touch and movement întegratîon

Movîng towards an endîng

Therapeutîc understandîng – a mutual end

8. Fîndîng an Endîng and Emergent Theory Sessîon 8: Amanda wants jîgglîng

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Sessîon 10: Acceptîng endîngs

CONTENTS

Fîndîng an endîng wîth the multîple selves: The trellîs o trust

9. Towards a Theory o Receptîvîty: Touchîng Once Agaîn Upon Touch The pre-ontologîcal space and tîme domaîn o the body Arrîvîng at receptîvîty – an ‘ethîc o care’

Appendîx 1:Inclusion and exclusion in research– the înner/outer dîvîde – consîderîng ethîcs, capacîty, autonomy and îndependence Appendîx 2: The touch stages explaîned wîth dîagrams, made reerence to în Chapters 5–7 Appendîx 3:The prehension cycle and process o realization. Appendîx 4: Comparatîve tables o sessîons 1 and 8 îllustratîng încreasîng clîent competence: The cycles o learnîng when sensory-motor responses are brought to non-sensory level o beîng and then to conscîous awareness and reflectîve thînkîng Appendîx 5: Dîagram by the author, ater Martz and Lîndy,The Trauma Membrane Concept(2010) înterpreted as a metaphor or the clînîcal process o touch-based methods and theîr applîcatîon Appendîx 6: The perceptual response cycle.Illustratîon or course study guîdes, courtesy o the School o Body-Mînd Centerîng®. Copyrîght Bonnîe Baînbrîdge Cohen 2001 Bîblîography Index

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