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.