Moving Until The End Of Our Days Palliative Care through Dance Movement

This chapter presents some of the advantages that the work of Dance Movement Therapy (DMT) offers when working in palliative care. Via two clinical vignettes the importance of an empathetic kinaesthetic accompaniment unfolds, describing a presence and listening beyond words. The article shows how DM...

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Main Authors: Heidrun Panhofer, Jeanette MacDonald
Format: Article
Language:Spanish
Published: Universidad Complutense de Madrid 2016-05-01
Series:Arteterapia
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Online Access:http://revistas.ucm.es/index.php/ARTE/article/view/51683
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description This chapter presents some of the advantages that the work of Dance Movement Therapy (DMT) offers when working in palliative care. Via two clinical vignettes the importance of an empathetic kinaesthetic accompaniment unfolds, describing a presence and listening beyond words. The article shows how DMT offers a possibility to participate actively and constructively in order to build resilience, working with the body’s memory of the person. Accessing the body allows for contacting earlier memories, rescuing thus precious moments from a full and rich life; moments that were perhaps covered by the suffering and the pain of this last phase
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spelling doaj.art-ef4feeab78c1492bb2b833ca3a5d34082022-12-22T03:42:52ZspaUniversidad Complutense de MadridArteterapia1886-61901988-83092016-05-01100516410.5209/rev_ARTE.2015.v10.5168348983Moving Until The End Of Our Days Palliative Care through Dance MovementHeidrun PanhoferJeanette MacDonaldThis chapter presents some of the advantages that the work of Dance Movement Therapy (DMT) offers when working in palliative care. Via two clinical vignettes the importance of an empathetic kinaesthetic accompaniment unfolds, describing a presence and listening beyond words. The article shows how DMT offers a possibility to participate actively and constructively in order to build resilience, working with the body’s memory of the person. Accessing the body allows for contacting earlier memories, rescuing thus precious moments from a full and rich life; moments that were perhaps covered by the suffering and the pain of this last phasehttp://revistas.ucm.es/index.php/ARTE/article/view/51683Danza Movimiento Terapiaempatía kinestésicamemoria corporalcuidados paliativosresiliencia
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Jeanette MacDonald
Moving Until The End Of Our Days Palliative Care through Dance Movement
Arteterapia
Danza Movimiento Terapia
empatía kinestésica
memoria corporal
cuidados paliativos
resiliencia
title Moving Until The End Of Our Days Palliative Care through Dance Movement
title_full Moving Until The End Of Our Days Palliative Care through Dance Movement
title_fullStr Moving Until The End Of Our Days Palliative Care through Dance Movement
title_full_unstemmed Moving Until The End Of Our Days Palliative Care through Dance Movement
title_short Moving Until The End Of Our Days Palliative Care through Dance Movement
title_sort moving until the end of our days palliative care through dance movement
topic Danza Movimiento Terapia
empatía kinestésica
memoria corporal
cuidados paliativos
resiliencia
url http://revistas.ucm.es/index.php/ARTE/article/view/51683
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