Integrating Dance/Movement Therapy in Psychotherapy with the Now Elderly Holocaust Survivor

Using Embodied Knowledge to Touch the Soul

Dados Bibliográficos

ID21308255
AutoresEinat Shuper Engelhard (0000-0002-1513-412X), Avital Yael Furlager
Ano2024
Volume60
Fascículo3-4
Páginas282-307
Data de publicação2024-10-01
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessSim
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoContemporary Psychoanalysis (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 0010-7530 • E-ISSN: 2330-9091
EditoraInforma UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/00107530.2025.2564601
OpenAlexW4415122896
IdiomaEN
Referências citadas18

Individuals who survived the Holocaust as infants are now in their senior years. Having carried lifelong wounds—stemming both from exposure to horrors and from the absence of caregivers to meet basic developmental needs—many of these survivors hold early experiences that remain wordless, stored internally without expression or meaning. Dance/movement psychotherapy encourages patients to engage with embodied knowledge through movement, in parallel with verbal processing of experiences in motion. This integration bridges implicit and explicit realms, supporting the development of a more cohesive sense of self and enabling the processing of early traumatic experiences. Through a case study, we will illustrate interventions that combine bodily focus with verbal symbolism as pathways to growth and tranquility in later life

Embodied cognition · Holocaust survivors · Integrative psychotherapy · Soul · The Holocaust · Art Therapy and Mental Health · Diversity and Impact of Dance · Music Therapy and Health