The body, its politics, posture and poetics

Aldridge, David

doi:10.1016/0197-4556(95)00066-6

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“…In addition, the use of music and theatre to optimize the quality of life of people with dementia has been explored (Vink et al ., 2004). Receptivity to music remains until the late phases of dementia (Aldridge, 1996) and drama can facilitate reminiscence and help people with dementia to express their feelings (Sandel and Johnson, 1987).…”

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Does theatre improve the quality of life of people with dementia?

Dijk

Weert

Dröes

2011

Int. Psychogeriatr.

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Does theatre improve the quality of life of people with dementia?

Dijk

Weert

Dröes

2011

Int. Psychogeriatr.

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“…The body is engaged in the art process at a sensory experience level. Aldridge (1996) claims that expressive art therapy is powerful because it actually emphasizes the lived body as being sensed rather than being only talked about. Based on Merleau-Ponty's (1945) notion of the expressiveness of gestures, Levine (1996) suggests that art is a gesture that transforms the self as well as the world.…”

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Art Therapy, Somatization, and Narcissistic Identification

Lacroix¹,

Peterson²,

Verrier³

2001

Art Therapy

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This article describes how art therapy can benefit patients with somatic complaints and those suffering from functional gastrointestinal disorders such as dyspepsia. Some psychosomatic disorders may be linked to narcissistic identification and/or depressive components. Mushatt (1989) depicts the essence of narcissism as a residue of the earliest symbiotic state, shown when body and external world are one. She points out that such narcissistic phenomena are often seen in psychosomatic patients, who seem to show failure in resolving the separation-individuation process. This specific somatic disorder would be a manifestation of an impasse in object relations, determined by the narcissistic component. This narcissistic character implies the existence of a disordered process of identification. The nonverbal approach and process of art therapy enable a better understanding of body language (somatothymia). This paper demonstrates how art therapy gives external form or voice to emotions and encourages verbal expression.

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“…By considering the visible, audible, and embodied material of music therapy, it is possible to consider and reflect on the meaning of our bodies, individual and social. As Aldridge (1996) noted, “[T]he body has a central role in post-modern society. The relationship with the self is with the body; it is here that we have the interface of internal and external.…”

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Improvisation and meaning

Gilbertson

2013

International Journal of Qualitative Studies on Health and Well

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This article presents and discusses a long-term repeated-immersion research process that explores meaning allocated to an episode of 50 seconds of music improvisation in early neurosurgical rehabilitation by a teenage boy with severe traumatic brain injury and his music therapist. The process began with the original therapy session in August 1994 and extends to the current time of writing in 2013. A diverse selection of qualitative research methods were used during a repeated immersion and engagement with the selected episodes. The multiple methods used in this enquiry include therapeutic narrative analysis and musicological and video analysis during my doctoral research between 2002 and 2004, arts-based research in 2008 using expressive writing, and arts-based research in 2012 based on the creation of a body cast of my right hand as I used it to play the first note of my music improvising in the original therapy episode, which is accompanied by reflective journaling. The casting of my hand was done to explore and reconsider the role of my own body as an embodied and integral, but originally hidden, part of the therapy process. Put together, these investigations explore the potential meanings of the episode of music improvisation in therapy in an innovative and imaginative way. However, this article does not aim at this stage to present a model or theory for neurorehabilitation but offers an example of how a combination of diverse qualitative methods over an extended period of time can be instrumental in gaining innovative and rich insights into initially hidden perspectives on health, well-being, and human relating.

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The body, its politics, posture and poetics

Cited by 8 publications

References 24 publications

Does theatre improve the quality of life of people with dementia?

Does theatre improve the quality of life of people with dementia?

Art Therapy, Somatization, and Narcissistic Identification

Improvisation and meaning

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