Primitive Expression and Dance Therapy: When dancing heals

Contents

• Introduction
• PART ONE: OUR LINK TO THE WORLD
• Chapter 1 Human-World Unity
• A Plural Body
• Dance and Neuroscience
• Brain plasticity
• The Memory of the Body
• Rhythmic Patterns as Substitute Behaviours
• Chapter 2 The link between Animal and Man: Ethology
• Mirroring, Imitation and Simulacra
• Non-Verbal Language
• Playing
• Rituals
• Chapter 3 Humanization of Homo
• The Origin of Humanity According to Paleontology
• The Culture, a Second World
• PART TWO: TRADITIONAL DANCE THERAPY
• Chapter 4 Dances of Trance
• The Trance of Possession
• Therapeutic Possession
• Dances of Possession
• Enthusiasm
• Chapter 5 Shamanism
• Universality and the Persistence of Shamanism
• An invisible World
• The Shaman
• A Shaman's Therapeutic Tools
• The Shamanic Cure
• PART THREE: THE HUMANIZING PROCESS
• Chapter 6 The Universe of Fusion and its Dangers
• The Permeable Body
• Primary Narcissism
• The Body Image
• Psychosis
• Autism
• Chapter 7 Between Two
• Intermediary Space
• Transitional Creativity
• Repetition in Rhythm Dance Therapy
• Duplicating
• Chapter 8 Gestural Symmetry Coupling with the Other
• Symmetry in Rites, Games and Dances
• The Dynamic Sources of Gestural Symmetry
• The Corporeal Foundations of Gestural Symmetry
• Gestural Symmetry in Dance
• Restoring the Link
• Application in the Treatment of Psychotic and Autistic Patients
• The Therapeutic Treasure of Oral Cultures: Bilateralism
• Chapter 9 Bilateralism as Structuring Dialogue
• The pair Call-Reply
• The Calling Power of Archetypes
• The Pairing of Opposites
• Chapter 10 Symbolization
• Descending to the Underworld
• The Liberating Rhythm
• The Separation from the Animal Kingdom
• Fort-Da 'Dance'
• The Paternal function
• PART FOUR: THERAPEUTIC PROCESS
• Chapter 11 The healing process
• The Creation of meaning
• Symbolic reorganization
• Pacifying, Mastering and Structuring
• Sublimation
• Primitive Aesthetics
• Chapter 12 Rhythm Dance Therapy
• Popular Dances for Therapeutic Mediation
• Rhythm Dance Therapy using Primitive Expression
• Therapeutic Tools in Primitive Expression
• Ethics
• Chapter 13 New fields in the Application of Dance Therapy
• The Social Field and Dancing for Peace
• Clinical Applications: Neurological Disorders
• Conclusion
• BIBLIOGRAPHY
• INDEX