Dance Therapy and Depth Psychology

Joan Chodorow Ph.D. is an analyst member of the C. G. Jung Institute of San Fransisco, in private practice. Her early background uncludes dance studies and performing and teaching experience. Her dance therapy training was with Trudi Schoop and Mary Whitehouse. She is a registered dance therapist and former President of the American Dance Therapy Association.

`Joan Chodorow's innovative book affirms and develops dance/movement as a means of contacting and confronting unconscious material.' - Journal of Analytical Psychology`A wonderful book.' - Trudi Schoop`An excellent account of the origins and development of dance/movement as a form of active imagination. The result is outstanding.' - Joseph C. Henderson`[An] excellent book' - British Journal of Medical Psychology`In coupling astute theory with her own practical experience, she has created an integrated and moving work.' - The Friends of Jung Newsletter`Chodorow's clear and refreshingly non-jargonistic description of her work provides a valuable and accessible addition to the growing body of available dance movement therapy literature.' - Changes`The author's discussion is lucid, insightful, informative. ... She is undoubtedly the best qualified to write the unique and informative book.' - Bibliographie Zur Symbolik, Ikonographie Und Mythologie

• Part I. PERSONAL ORIGINS Dance to Dance Therapy Trudi Schoop Mary Starks Whitehouse Dance Therapy to Analysis Part II. DEPTH PSYCHOLOGY AND THE EMOTIONS Introduction to Part II Jung on Body, Psyche, Emotion The Structure of the Unconscious Basic Concepts Darwin and Tomkins Stewart's Affect and Archetype The Primal Self The Realized Self Child Development Active Imagination Part III. THE MOVING SELF The Nature of My Work Movement Themes, Ego and Shadow Movement from the Cultural Unconscious Movement from the Primordial Unconscious Movement from the Ego-Self Axis Closing Thoughts Appendix: The Emotions and the Universal Games