Mary starks white house biography of m&ct
Mary starks white house biography of m&ct
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Authentic Movement
A form of expressive movement therapy
Authentic Movement (AM) is a form of expressive movement therapy which grew out of an inner-directed approach to movement developed by Mary Starks Whitehouse.
It was described as unpremeditated, genuine, or "authentic." Whitehouse called her work "Movement-in-depth."[1] Janet Adler developed this approach into a practice involving a mover and a witness.[2][3][4]
History
Whitehouse (1911 – 1979) was a student of famed Martha Graham and Mary Wigman, who became a professional dancer and subsequent teacher.
Informed by her interest in and experience with Jungian psychology, particularly active imagination, projection, and polarities, Whitehouse integrated her study of dance and Jung into a new embodied inquiry, "an approach, an orientation" toward allowing "the unconscious to express itself in movement."[5]
Joan Chodorow (Jungian Analyst) and Janet Adler (Dance Movem