Dance/movement therapy may be conceptualized as an embodied and enactive form of
psychotherapy. The embodied enactive approach looks at individuals as living systems …

There is a growing body of research indicating that bodily sensation and behavior strongly
influences one's emotional reaction toward certain situations or objects. On this background, …

This edited volume results from an interdisciplinary collaboration of phenomenologists,
cognitive linguists, and psychologists working at the interface of embodiment research. The …

The body is a particular kind of object. It is the only “thing” that we can perceive from the
inside as well as from the outside. For this reason, it is intricately related to the problem of …

This article provides an approach to central specific active factors effective in the arts therapies
that (a) can be distinguished from therapeutic factors present in other medical treatments …

Objective: Negative symptoms of patients with Schizophrenia are resistant to medical
treatment or conventional group therapy. Understanding schizophrenia as a form of …

Background: Dance is an embodied activity and, when applied therapeutically, can have
several specific and unspecific health benefits. In this meta-analysis, we evaluated the …

This study investigated the specific effects of a dance intervention on the decrease of
depression and the increase of vitality and positive affect in 31 psychiatric patients with main or …

… Correspondence concerning this paper should be addressed to Sabine C. Koch, Department
of Psychology, University of Heidelberg, Hauptstrasse 47-51, 69117 Heidelberg, Germany; …

Empirical studies in the creative arts therapies (CATs; ie, art therapy, dance/movement
therapy, drama therapy, music therapy, psychodrama, and poetry/bibliotherapy) have grown …