RECENT PUBLICATION!!!
Embodied Intersubjectivity: Vitality Affects and Somatic Relational Rhythms (2025 )
This paper, and the case of Tom, demonstrates how embodiment, movement, and vitality affects are central to self-experience and relational healing. Through tracking intersubjective rhythms, I try to illustrate an expanded way of working within psychoanalysis/psychotherapy —one that acknowledges the body as an active participant in meaning-making. Tom’s journey highlights that deep change often begins in the body before it can be put into words. The paper argues that self-psychology does not require the ‘addition’ of a somatic or body theory, as it already contains an implicit somatic dimension, which, when consciously integrated, can enhance therapeutic attunement and responsiveness.
Additionally, I have authored a number of papers on Dance Movement Therapy, Somatic Psychotherapy and Psychotherapy. Please see the links below:
Affects and Dance Movement Therapy (2006)
Psychodynamic Support for Dance Movement Therapy (2007)
Moving Beyond Embodiment (2013)
Demonize body, demonized feelings: Languaging the Affective Body (2016)
Introduction to Dance Movement Therapy/Psychotherapy: handout (2019)
Something More: The unique features of dance movement therapy/psychotherapy (2020)