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- Title
The Efficacy of Dance/Movement Therapy as Revealed through the Qualitative Lens of Somatic Inkblot Series (SIS-II).
- Authors
Dasgupta, Manisha
- Abstract
Synergies of meaningful movements form the basic elements of individuals unique way of relating with others in the environment.. Mind-body-connectivity serves as one of the chief pillars of dance/movement therapy, which relies on the search for ones authentic movements, to bring about gradual somatic transformations and consequent psychic modifications. The study involved the use of dance/movement as a therapeutic tool on a clinical case having emotional problems to verify its efficacy. The Somatic Inkblot Series-II (SIS-II) was used as a measure to determine any significant change(s) through the projective mode following a pretest and posttest design paradigm, where eight sessions of dance movement therapy (DMT) were carried about with distinct focus on different body movements following the Limon technique. Both quantitative as well as qualitative analyses were done to unfurl the efficacy of the therapeutic intervention, if any, on the client's personality profile and profile of mood states. DMT was found to have a substantial qualitative effect in molding the personality profile along with mood state as revealed through qualitative improvement in the nature of responses on the SIS-II. The case manifested specific trend of "inner growth in personality make-up in the post-test sessions. This effect was also found to persist even after the therapeutic sessions had been withdrawn (for at least a period of two weeks). Implications of dance/movement therapy in the clinical arena have also been discussed.
- Subjects
DANCE therapy; SOMATIC Inkblot Series; MIND &; body; QUALITATIVE research; THERAPEUTICS; MOOD (Psychology); PSYCHOLOGY
- Publication
SIS Journal of Projective Psychology & Mental Health, 2013, Vol 20, Issue 2, p110
- ISSN
0971-6610
- Publication type
Article