Jennifer Frank Tantia

Independent Researcher · Somatic Psychology

Embodiment is the integration of physical, emotional, and cognitive awareness that offers the most dynamic experience of living. This chapter articulates how conceptual understanding is insufficient in the psychotherapeutic milieu, and introduces the need for Somatic Intelligence as a new competency for psychotherapists when it comes to psychologic...

The concept of embodiment, or the lived experience of the body, has become an important focus of scholarly attention across psychology, sociology, philosophy, and cultural studies. Addressing the inherent challenges of researching the lived experience of the body, this edited volume brings together experienced scholars who conduct and teach embodie...

The concept of embodiment, or the lived experience of the body, has become an important focus of scholarly attention across psychology, sociology, philosophy, and cultural studies. Addressing the inherent challenges of researching the lived experience of the body, this edited volume brings together experienced scholars who conduct and teach embodie...

The Research and Practice Committee of the American Dance Therapy Association (ADTA) has sponsored the research poster session at each annual conference for the past 23 years. The studies represented in the following abstracts were presented at the 2019 Research and Thesis Poster Session of the 53rd Annual ADTA conference in Salt Lake City, Utah an...

This article will offer an overview of the extant literature on embodied research and make a case for the need for somatically informed embodied research. It will describe general ways in which somatic psychotherapy and dance/movement therapy clinical practice can be repurposed to create somatically informed research methods. Finally, it will proje...

The field of Somatics has existed for more than eighty years without the complement of substantial research to accompany it. As it began to evolve into mental health treatment, the experiential orientation of somatic psychotherapy attracted those more interested in the art of the practice than the practice of scientific research that could support...

The Research and Practice Committee of the American Dance Therapy Association (ADTA) has sponsored the research poster session at each annual conference for the past 23 years. The studies represented in the following abstracts were presented at the 2018 Research and Thesis Poster Session of the 53rd Annual ADTA conference in Salt Lake City, Utah an...

There is a growing interest in embodied approaches to psychotherapy internationally. This volume focuses on the respective focal professions of dance movement psychotherapy (DMP) and body psychotherapy (BP), addressing the psychotherapeutic need for healing throughout the lifespan. Within embodied clinical approaches, the therapist and client colla...

The Research and Practice Committee of the American Dance Therapy Association (ADTA) has sponsored the research poster session at each annual conference for the past 21 years. The studies represented in the current abstracts from the 2017 Research and Thesis Poster Session of the 52nd Annual ADTA conference feature a wide range of scholarly works a...

The Research and Practice Committee of the American Dance Therapy Association (ADTA) has sponsored the research poster session at each annual conference for the past 21 years. The studies represented in the current abstracts from the 2016 Research and Thesis Poster Session of the 51st Annual ADTA conference feature a wide range of scholarly works a...

For the dance/movement therapy clinician, reading research to keep up with current knowledge and trends is an important professional development activity that can sometimes seem daunting. Reading research can require a shift of focus, and include technical concepts and language that are different from those of clinical practice. However, profession...

The Research and Practice Committee of the American Dance Therapy Association (ADTA) has sponsored the research poster session at each annual conference for the past 21 years. The studies represented in the current abstracts from the 2016 Research and Thesis Poster Session of the 51st Annual ADTA conference feature a wide range of scholarly works a...

Just as a child’s neurodevelopment becomes more sophisticated with life experience, somatic psychotherapy and dance/movement therapy, now in their eighth decade, are approaching a more intricate stage of growth. As each discipline grows in complexity, conflicts have risen regarding the concept of identity. The recent debate of whether dance/movemen...

Reading research is an important professional development activity that can seem like a lot of extra work! But professional reading can be enjoyable and rewarding when one feels confident interpreting and applying research findings to clinical practice. Even though qualitative research can be as complex and difficult to understand as quantitative,...

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Intuition in psychotherapy practice is often confused with terms such as emotional insight, body language, gut feeling and psychic ability. These terms generalise a common experience, yet do not adequately describe the lived experience of intuitive phenomena. This phenomenological study explored intuition in clinical practice from an embodied persp...

This study inquired into psychotherapists’ embodied experiences of clinical intuition while working with patients. In the course of the study I found that an unconventional form of interviewing was needed to capture the subtle nuances of nonverbal communication that often accompanied participants’ descriptions of a complex phenomenon. Previous stud...

Present awareness through mindfulness creates a foundation for embodiment, an enlivened sense of oneself in the world. Dance/movement Therapy can facilitate the movement from mindfulness to embodiment by animating a client’s images, emotions and memories, leading to improved physical, mental and emotional wellbeing. However, for clients who have ex...

This phenomenological study explored somatic psychotherapists’ embodied experiences of intuition during clinical practice by asking, 1) How, if at all, can intuitive phenomena be explored from an embodied perspective? 2) How do somatic psychotherapists describe intuitive phenomena in the clinical setting? 3) What nonverbal expressions, if any, do s...

This experimental case study seeks to understand the changes in physiological activity during and following an Authentic Movement experience. A CapnoTrainerTM biofeedback instrument was used to measure heart rate, heart rate variability (HRV), capnometry, and measurement of end-tidal Carbon Dioxide (ETCO2) during and following Authentic Movement ac...

Often called a “sixth sense,” “gut feeling” or “other way of knowing,” intuition is phenomenon of the human condition that is frequently acknowledged but seldom explained. The body is said to house unconscious awareness that is not processed in language (S. Aposhyan, 2004; P. Levine, 1997). Body psychotherapists are the chief advocates and teachers...