TY  - JOUR
PY  - 2016//
TI  - Body awareness and mental health: a body psychotherapy case study
JO  - Body, movement and dance in psychotherapy
A1  - Fujino, H.
SP  - 249
EP  - 262
VL  - 11
IS  - 4
N2  - Dohsa-hou is a Japanese form of body psychotherapy that utilises body movement as a means of enhancing the psychotherapy process. Body awareness has recently been proposed as a potential contributor to therapeutic progress made in the course of body psychotherapy. This paper reports the utilisation of Dohsa-hou with a patient who had a history of outpatient and inpatient treatment for depression-related psychiatric symptoms. At the start of treatment, the patient had difficulty in releasing tension because of the harsh rigidity of her body; further, the patient did not know how to regulate tension. As the Dohsa-hou therapy progressed, the patient became aware of her tenseness and learned to self-regulate her bodily rigidity. Her severe depressive symptoms were alleviated along with the change in her physical rigidity. This study illustrates the process of the treatment and the contribution of body awareness to the therapeutic progress made. © 2016 Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group.<p /> <p>Language: en</p>
LA  - en
SN  - 1743-2979
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/17432979.2016.1150882
ID  - ref1
ER  -