Authentic Movement

Authentic Movement, created by Mary Starks Whitehouse and subsequently developed by Janet Adler and Joan Chodorow, approaches dance and movement therapy from a Jungian perspective. The basic concepts of Authentic Movement are expressed for the first time in one volume through interviews and conversations with these important figures, and their key papers. They emphasize the importance of movement as a means of communication, particularly movement which is unconscious or 'authentic', emerging when the individual has a deep, self-sensing awareness an attitude of 'inner listening'. Such movement can trigger powerful images, feelings and memories arising from as early as infancy or childhood.