{"value"=>"<p> <span class=\"title\">A Self-Exploration of the Importance of Personal Therapy While in Training to be a Dance Therapist</span></p> <p>Personal therapy plays an integral part in the training of dance/movement therapists. It facilitates self-exploration that aids dance therapy trainees to be aware of and resolve intrapersonal difficulties that could inhibit their work as therapists. A question arises: How can therapist lead patients on a journey if they have not traveled a similar road themselves?</p> <p>This thesis focuses on the following: personal therapy and its role in training therapists; content analysis of the author's weekly personal therapy sessions juxtaposed with the author's clinical work in dance therapy; and how personal therapy can aid dance therapy trainees in their clinical work with patients by enhancing their own self-knowledge. The information gathered comes from the author's personal experience while in individual therapy and dance therapy training. The parameters to be analyzed include the author's correlations between issues that arise in her own experience of personal therapy and her clinical work with patients as a dance therapist. The author stresses the importance of being in personal therapy at the same time as training to be a dance therapist and exploring personal patterns of interaction and their relationships to working as a dance therapist.</p>"}