{"value"=>"<p> <span class=\"title\">Dance Therapy: Integration with Psychoanalysis</span></p> <p>This thesis is a presentation of dance/movement therapy in its unique aspects as psychotherapeutic modality, as well as in its similarities and differences vis-à-vis psychoanalytic verbal psychotherapy. It involves an overview of dance therapy including a brief history, goals and its why's and how's. Following are two comparative and integrative discussions about dance therapy and verbal psychotherapy. The first is about the methods and tools utilized in both modalities: the use of verbal and non-verbal expression, and the use of empathy/intuition, as well as added tools specific to dance therapy: the use of touch, sounds, space. The second concerns the differences and similarities in the therapeutic processes involved in “dance therapeutic” and psychotherapeutic treatment, i.e., therapeutic alliance. Transference/countertransference and insight.</p> <p>Within this paper, the author attempts to illustrate that by using primarily body/movement - a natural and universal phenomenon - as a foundation for communication, without ignoring the verbal sphere, dance therapy may enlarge the traditional verbal psychotherapeutic approach. Dance therapy is presented as being inclusive, by providing an in-depth psychotherapeutic intervention involving verbal populations of patients, and by subsequently extending it to non-verbal populations. The author attempts also to show the holistic approach of dance therapy in that it provides the opportunity to explore the three most fundamental ways of expressing oneself: movement, imagery and verbalization, and allows the client to experience him/herself as a total being - body/mind - in the expression of his/her emotions.</p>"}