Introduction: Helen Payne, UK; Sabine Koch, Germany; Jennifer Tantia, USA; and Thomas Fuchs, Germany Foreword by Don Hanlon Johnson, Ph.D. Foreword by Vassiliki Karkou Foreword by Babette Rothchild Section One: Overview of Concepts Introduction to Section Essential Dimensions of Being a Body - Maxine Sheets-Johnstone, USA Narrratives in Embodied Therapeutic Practice: Getting the story straight - Shaun Gallagher, USA and Dan Hutto, Australia Towards a Clinical Theory of Embodiment: A model for the conceptualization and treatment of mental illness - Jessica Acolin, USA The Evidence for Basic Assumptions of Dance Movement Psychotherapy and Body Psychotherapy Related to Findings from Embodiment Research - Johannes Michalak, Naomi Lyons, Thomas Heidenreich, Germany Having a Body and Moving your Body: Distinguishing somatic psychotherapy from dance/movement therapy - Jennifer Tantia, USA Section Two: Theory and Practice in Dance Movement Psychotherapy Introduction to Section A Developmental Taxonomy of Interaction Modalities in Dance Movement Therapy - Marianne Eberhard-Kaechele, Germany Witnessing Practice: In the eyes of the beholder - Tina Stromsted, USA Somatic Body Mapping with Women During Life Transitions - Annette Schwalbe, UK and Kenya Gravity in the Development of the (body) self - Diana Cheney, UK Dance Movement Therapy: Building resilience from shared movement experiences - Rosemarie Samaritter, The Netherlands Interrupted rhythms: Dance/movement therapy''s contributions to suicide prevention - Susan Imus, USA Body as Voice: Restorative Dance/Movement Psychotherapy with Survivors of Relational Trauma - Amber Gray, USA Psychological Re-Sources in Dance Movement Therapy - Sylvie Garnero, France Mother-son Transgenerational Transmission of Eating Issues in a Co-treatment Method using the Ways of Seeing Approach - Alexander Girshon and Ekaterina Karatygina, Russia Mother-son Transgenerational Transmission of Eating Issues Using a Co-treatment Method - Suzi Tortora and Jennifer Whitley, USA The BodyMind Approach and People Affected by Medically Unexplained Symptoms /Somatic Symptom Disorder - Helen Payne, UK The Disturbance of the Psychosomatic Balance - Haguit Ehrenfreund, Switzerland Modulating Verbal and Non-Verbal Languages in Dance Movement Psychotherapy: Moving conversations with adult patients in private practice -Teresa Bas, Spain; Diana Fischman, Argentina and Rosa Mª Rodríguez, Spain The Important of the Subtle Movement and Stillness in Japanese Dance Movement Therapy: A comparison with the Japanese traditional performing art of ''Noh'' - Miyuki Kija, Japan Embodiment of Space in Relation to the Self and Others in Psychotherapy: Boundlessness, Emptiness, Fulness, and Betweeness - Rainbow Ho, Hong Kong From the Alps to the Pyramids: Swiss and Egyptian perspectives on dance movement therapy -Iris Bräuninger and Radwa Said Abdelazim Elfeqi Section Three: Theory and Practice in Body Psychotherapy Introduction to Section Relating Through the Body: self, other, and the wider world - Gill Westland, UK Functional Relaxation in Psychosomatic Medicine - Ursula Bartholomew and Ingrid Herholz, Germany The Art of Bottom-Up Processing Mindfulness and Meaning in Body Psychotherapy - Halko Weiss and Maci Daye, Germany Embodied-relational Therapy - Nick Totton Four Forms of Knowledge in Biosynthesis - David Boadella, Switzerland The Relational Turn in Body Psychotherapy - Michael Soth, UK Emotional Regulation in Body Psychotherapy - Ulf Geuter, Germany The Embodiment of Dreams: Exploring mind/body connecting devices - Michel Heller and Gillat Burckhardt-Bartov, France The Therapist''s Body and the Intersubjectivities of the Unconscious -Tom Warnecke, UK Being Moved to Tears: Somatic and motoric aspects of self-disclosure - Asaf Rolef Ben-Shahir, Israel Oppression and embodiment in psychotherapy - Rae Johnson, USA Oppression and Embodiment in Psychotherapy - Rae Johnson, USA Micro-movements: Filling out the movement continuum in clinical practice - Christine Caldwell, USA Safety in Psychotherapy: The body matters - Helma Mair, Ireland Touch and Embodiment: Body-oriented Psychotherapeutic Applications of Clinical Touch - Michael Changaris, USA Traumatic Disembodiment: Effects of trauma on body perception and body image - Maurizio Stupiggia, Italy Research informing body psychotherapy: A spotlight on emotions - Margit Koemeda-Lutz, Switzerland Appendix Index nt of mental illness - Jessica Acolin, USA The Evidence for Basic Assumptions of Dance Movement Psychotherapy and Body Psychotherapy Related to Findings from Embodiment Research - Johannes Michalak, Naomi Lyons, Thomas Heidenreich, Germany Having a Body and Moving your Body: Distinguishing somatic psychotherapy from dance/movement therapy - Jennifer Tantia, USA Section Two: Theory and Practice in Dance Movement Psychotherapy Introduction to Section A Developmental Taxonomy of Interaction Modalities in Dance Movement Therapy - Marianne Eberhard-Kaechele, Germany Witnessing Practice: In the eyes of the beholder - Tina Stromsted, USA Somatic Body Mapping with Women During Life Transitions - Annette Schwalbe, UK and Kenya Gravity in the Development of the (body) self - Diana Cheney, UK Dance Movement Therapy: Building resilience from shared movement experiences - Rosemarie Samaritter, The Netherlands Interrupted rhythms: Dance/movement therapy''s contributions to suicide prevention - Susan Imus, USA Body as Voice: Restorative Dance/Movement Psychotherapy with Survivors of Relational Trauma - Amber Gray, USA Psychological Re-Sources in Dance Movement Therapy - Sylvie Garnero, France Mother-son Transgenerational Transmission of Eating Issues in a Co-treatment Method using the Ways of Seeing Approach - Alexander Girshon and Ekaterina Karatygina, Russia Mother-son Transgenerational Transmission of Eating Issues Using a Co-treatment Method - Suzi Tortora and Jennifer Whitley, USA The BodyMind Approach and People Affected by Medically Unexplained Symptoms /Somatic Symptom Disorder - Helen Payne, UK The Disturbance of the Psychosomatic Balance - Haguit Ehrenfreund, Switzerland Modulating Verbal and Non-Verbal Languages in Dance Movement Psychotherapy: Moving conversations with adult patients in private practice -Teresa Bas, Spain; Diana Fischman, Argentina and Rosa Mª Rodríguez, Spain The Important of the Subtle Movement and Stillness in Japanese Dance Movement Therapy: A comparison with the Japanese traditional performing art of ''Noh'' - Miyuki Kija, Japan Embodiment of Space in Relation to the Self and Others in Psychotherapy: Boundlessness, Emptiness, Fulness, and Betweeness - Rainbow Ho, Hong Kong From the Alps to the Pyramids: Swiss and Egyptian perspectives on dance movement therapy -Iris Bräuninger and Radwa Said Abdelazim Elfeqi Section Three: Theory and Practice in Body Psychotherapy Introduction to Section Relating Through the Body: self, other, and the wider world - Gill Westland, UK Functional Relaxation in Psychosomatic Medicine - Ursula Bartholomew and Ingrid Herholz, Germany The Art of Bottom-Up Processing Mindfulness and Meaning in Body Psychotherapy - Halko Weiss and Maci Daye, Germany Embodied-relational Therapy - Nick Totton Four Forms of Knowledge in Biosynthesis - David Boadella, Switzerland The Relational Turn in Body Psychotherapy - Michael Soth, UK Emotional Regulation in Body Psychotherapy - Ulf Geuter, Germany The Embodiment of Dreams: Exploring mind/body connecting devices - Michel Heller and Gillat Burckhardt-Bartov, France The Therapist''s Body and the Intersubjectivities of the Unconscious -Tom Warnecke, UK Being Moved to Tears: Somatic and motoric aspects of self-disclosure - Asaf Rolef Ben-Shahir, Israel Oppression and embodiment in psychotherapy - Rae Johnson, USA Oppression and Embodiment in Psychotherapy - Rae Johnson, USA Micro-movements: Filling out the movement continuum in clinical practice - Christine Caldwell, USA Safety in Psychotherapy: The body matters - Helma Mair, Ireland Touch and Embodiment: Body-oriented Psychotherapeutic Applications of Clinical Touch - Michael Changaris, USA Traumatic Disembodiment: Effects of trauma on body perception and body image - Maurizio Stupiggia, Italy Research informing body psychotherapy: A spotlight on emotions - Margit Koemeda-Lutz, Switzerland Appendix Index sp; - Diana Cheney, UK Dance Movement Therapy: Building resilience from shared movement experiences - Rosemarie Samaritter, The Netherlands Interrupted rhythms: Dance/movement therapy''s contributions to suicide prevention - Susan Imus, USA Body as Voice: Restorative Dance/Movement Psychotherapy with Survivors of Relational Trauma - Amber Gray, USA Psychological Re-Sources in Dance Movement Therapy - Sylvie Garnero, France Mother-son Transgenerational Transmission of Eating Issues in a Co-treatment Method using the Ways of Seeing Approach - Alexander Girshon and Ekaterina Karatygina, Russia Mother-son Transgenerational Transmiss.