Subtitle:
Active imagination, authentic movement, and embodiment in psychotherapy
Place of Publication:
New York, New York
Publisher:
Routledge (an imprint of the Taylor and Francis Group)
Copyright Date:
2026
Publication Date:
2025
ISBN / SBN / ISSN:
9781032885469
Media Type:
Print (Non-Serial)
Media Sub-type:
Book
LoC Call Number:
BF 161 .S775 2026
Accession Number:
116856
Keyword Subject Headings:
Mind and body--Psychotherapeutic aspects
Soul and body--Psychotherapeutic aspects
Authentic movement--Psychotherapeutic applications
Movment and creativity
Movement and meditation
Movement and alchemy
Movement and trauma
Movement and ecopsychology / Eco-somatics
Active imagination (Jungian psychology)
Imagination--Somatic and psychological spects
Feminine psychology
Woodman, Marion (née Marion Jean Boa) 1928-2018
Soul and body--Psychotherapeutic aspects
Authentic movement--Psychotherapeutic applications
Movment and creativity
Movement and meditation
Movement and alchemy
Movement and trauma
Movement and ecopsychology / Eco-somatics
Active imagination (Jungian psychology)
Imagination--Somatic and psychological spects
Feminine psychology
Woodman, Marion (née Marion Jean Boa) 1928-2018
User Notes:
Paperbound; xxiv + 268 pp., including 24 black-and-white and
color illustrations, bibliogrpahic references in chapter endnotes,
a glossary, a list of resrouces, and an index.
The author is an OFJ speaker.
Contents:
Acknowledgments
Credits
Foreword / Joan Chodorow
Part I: Spriit in the body: Beginnings
1. The evolution of soul's body work
2. Healing soul's body: Active imaginiation in movement
Part II: On the journey: Core elements
3. Embodied imagination: From emptiness to form
4. Meeting the shadow: Becoming more whole
5. Witnessing practice: Seeing and being seen
6. Reinhabiting the body
7. Embodied descent: Steps toward transformation
Part III: Movement in practice
8. The moving body in psychotherapy
9. Working with trauma
10. Transforming life: Movement as meditation, medicine,
and artistic expression
11. Teaching active imagination in movement / with Neala Haze
12. Working with Authentic Movement in groups
Part IV: Embracing the body, healing the soul
13. Embodied alchemy: A pathway to the sacred
14. BodySoul Rhythms®: Marion Woodman and the sacred feminine
15. DreamDancing®: Embodied consciousness
16. Earth's body: Resonating with the pulse of life
17. Further reflections and looking forward
Glossary
Resources
Index
