Authentic Movement: Essays by Mary Starks Whitehouse, Janet Adler and Joan Chodorow

By: Whitehouse, Mary Starks

Book Overview

Patrizia Pallaro's second volume of essays on Authentic Movement, eight years after her first, is a tour de force. It is indeed "an extraordinary array of papers", as Pallaro puts it, and an immensely rich, moving and highly readable sweep through the landscapes of Authentic Movement, "this form of creative expression, meditative discipline and/or psychotherapeutic endeavour". You don't need to practice Authentic Movement to get a lot out of this...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1853026530
• ISBN13: 9781853026539
• Release Date: May 1999
• Publisher: Jessica Kingsley Publishers, Ltd
• Length: 320 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.2" x 9.2"

Customer Reviews

TTherapy and Awareness through Movement

From back cover: "Authentic Movement, an exploration of the unconscious through movement, was largely defined by the work of Mary Starks Whitehouse, Janet Adler and Joan Chodorow. The basic concepts of Authentic Movement are expressed for the first time in one volume through interviews and conversations with these important figures, and their key papers. They emphasize the importance of movement as a means of communication, particularly unconscious or 'authentic' movement, emerging when the individual has a deep, self-sensing awareness - an attitude of 'inner listening'. Such movement can trigger powerful images, feelings and kinesthetic sensations arising from the depths of our stored childhood memories or connecting our inner selves to the transcendent. This book explores how Authentic Movement differs from other forms of dance and movement therapy, and how it may be experienced."