| Description |
1 online resource : illustrations |
| Contents |
Cover -- Half-title -- Title-page -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- List of Figures -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- Abbreviations -- 1. Introduction -- The care context -- Background: Touch a 'natural language' -- A 'touch revolution' in a dance-sport called Contact Improvisation -- The sensory and sexual differentiation of touch: Co-operation and responsibility -- Touch -- a way of 'seeing' or a mutual place of 'being' -- The psychotherapist becomes researcher -- methodological acuity -- 2. The Personal and Professional Quests |
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The sensory acuity of touch -- contemplating a pathway of change -- Literature on touch: The absent body -- the 'touch or no-touch' debate -- The pro-touch discourse explored and explained -- Relational aspects: The subjectivities of 'touching subject' and 'touched object' -- Theories of consciousness -- establishing a safe space with, by and for touch -- the membrane returns -- The matter of the psyche, or what matter is the psyche? Meeting the moving membrane -- Summary -- 3. The Research Design -- Defining Roles -- Context -- Breaking new ground -- A qualitative framework and mixed-method approach |
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Defining the participant selves: The multiple subjectivities -- Data analysis -- methods and implementation -- 4. Embodied Ethics -- Earning legitimacy and ethical approval -- exploring the gaps, collisions and divisions -- Towards an embodied ethics within a disembodied ethical framework -- The Research Governance Framework: An intransigent construct -- The ethical demise of embodied ethics -- The Integrated Research Application System -- 5. Case Study Session 1: Transcript and Data Analysis -- Introduction to the transcript -- Session 1: 'You child angry heart?' Video transcript and data analysis |
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Amanda as participant: Managing autonomy -- Therapeutic impact -- 6. Case Study Session 4: Transcript and Data Analysis -- Introduction -- 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 (DMP): Making a case for touch -- 7. Case Study Session 6: Transcript and Data Analysis -- Arrival: Pre-touch -- 'You touch my 'art' -- 'No 'urting me.' Touch at the ruptured membrane -- exploring the (un)conscious languages of trauma healing |
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Touching at the ruptured trauma membrane: A summative interpretation -- 'No talking [he]art' -- Finding equilibrium through touch and movement integration -- Moving towards an ending -- Therapeutic understanding -- a mutual end -- 8. Finding an Ending and Emergent Theory -- Session 8: Amanda wants jiggling -- Session 10: Accepting endings -- Finding an ending with the multiple selves: The trellis of trust -- 9. Towards a Theory of Receptivity: Touching Once Again Upon Touch -- The pre-ontological space and time domain of the body -- Arriving at receptivity -- an 'ethic of care' |
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Appendix 1: Inclusion and exclusion in research -- the inner/outerdivide -- considering ethics, capacity, autonomy and independence |
| Summary |
A reflexive study of a client case in which touch-based practices were undertaken. Considering the philosophical landscape of both touch and non-touch, it explores and reflects upon the use of touch, and considers the wider context and socially imposed perceptions that would prevent touch from taking place, including social discourses. 5 b/w illus |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed November 3, 2021) |
| Subject |
Dance therapy -- Case studies
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Touch -- Therapeutic use.
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Therapeutic Touch
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Dance therapy.
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Touch -- Therapeutic use.
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PERFORMING ARTS / Dance / General
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| Genre/Form |
Case studies.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781789384581 |
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1789384583 |
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