List of figures
Preface and chapter summary
Acknowledgements
Abbreviations
Chapter 1. Introduction
1.1 Background: Touch a natural language
1.2 A “touch revolution” in a dance –sport called contact improvisation
1.3 The sensory and sexual differentiation of touch, co-operation and responsibility
1.4 Touch - a way of ‘seeing’ or a mutual place of being?
1.5 The psychotherapist becomes researcher
Chapter 2. The personal and professional quests 2.1 The sensory acuity of touch – contemplating a pathway of change
2.2 Literature on touch; the absent body - the “touch or no-touch” debate
2.3 The pro-touch discourse explored and explained
2.4 Relational aspects; the subjectivities of ‘touching subject’ - ‘touched object’
2.5 Theories of consciousness
2.6 The matter of the psyche; or what matter is the psyche? Summary
Chapter 3. The research design – defining roles
3.1. A qualitative framework and mixed method approach
3.2. Defining the selves: The multiple subjectivities
3.3. Data analysis – methods and implementation
Chapter 4. Embodied Ethics
4.1. Earning legitimacy and ethical approval
4.2. Towards an embodied ethics; a phenomenological insight
4.3. The Research Governance Framework, an intransigent construct
4.4. The ethical demise of embodied ethics
4.5. The Integrated Research Application System (IRAS)
Chapter 5. CASE STUDY SESSION 1: Transcript and data analysis
“You child angry heart?”
Amanda as participant; managing autonomy.
Chapter 6. CASE STUDY SESSION 4: Transcript and data analysis
Establishing a mutual language; beyond good and bad touch
Towards introspection, an intrapersonal and transpersonal approach
Tying in the thread of integrative approaches to Dance Movement Psychotherapy
Chapter 7. CASE STUDY SESSION 6: Transcript and data analysis
Chapter 8. FINDING AN ENDING AND EMERGENT THEORY
Chapter 9. TOWARDS A THEORY OF RECEPTIVITY; Touching once again upon touch
Arriving at receptivity – an ‘ethic of care’ (Etherington 2007: 604).
The pre-ontological space and time domain of the body
Appendix 1. Embodied Ethics continued
Part 1. The co-researcher role and the ethics of inclusive research-seduction or sensitivity, occlusion or collusion; a question of “capacity”?
Part 2. Ethical issues in mixed methodological research
Part 3. Hope at Hand – the ethics of research and the ethics of treatment
Summary
Appendix 2. For chapter 5, diagrams 1-4 and 5. (i) and (ii)
Appendix 3. For Chapter 6. Prehension theory diagram,
Appendix 4. For Chapter 8. Client competence, session 1 and 10
Appendix 5. Martz and Lindy, The trauma Membrane Concept (2010)
Appendix 6. Perceptual-Response Cycle