The expressive body in life, art, and therapy : working with movement, metaphor, and meaning

"Drawing on her extensive experience in expressive arts therapy, Daria Halprin presents a unique approach to healing through movement and art. She describes the body as the container of one's entire life experience and movement as a language that expresses and reveals our deepest struggles and creative potentials. Interweaving artistic and psychological processes, she offers a philosophy and methodology that invites the reader to consider the transformational capacity of the arts. In this essential resource for anyone interested in the integration of psychotherapy and the arts, Halprin also presents case studies and a selection of exercises that she has evolved over her career and practised at the Tamalpa Institute for over twenty-five years."--Back cover Drawing on her extensive experience in expressive arts therapy, Daria Halprin presents a unique approach to healing through movement and art. She describes the body as the container of one's entire life experience and movement as a language which expresses and reveals our deepest struggles and creative potentials. Interweaving artistic and psychological processes, she offers a philosophy and methodology which invites the reader to consider the transformational capacity of the arts. In this essential resource for anyone interested in the integration of psychotherapy and the arts, Halprin also p In this work, Daria Halprin, presents a comprehensive approach to healing through movement and art that has been practised at the Tampala Institute in California for over 20 years The foundation of this approach to movement-based expressive arts therapy is a view of the body and its primary language, movement. Daria Haprin ; Foreword By Jack S. Weller. Includes Bibliographical References And Index.