One man’s experience of accessing and transforming embodied traumatic memory: a dance therapy study

Keywords

dance movement therapy, phenomenology, emotion, embodiment and childhood trauma

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This article is based on a phenomenological study of one man’s experience of accessing feeling and emotion through movement, image and dialogue. The traumatic childhood that was the basis for John’s experience is identified and the phenomenological threads of John’s experience are woven together with reference to dance therapy, embodiment and trauma theory.