Rosemarie Samaritter

Codarts Rotterdam · Arts Therapies

“Being moved” has been proposed to be one of the beneficial working factors in dance movement therapy (Samaritter & Payne, 2016; Koch & Fuchs 2014; Koch, 2020). However, up to date, there is relatively little literature on how this active factor is addressed through interventions used in DMT (Van Geest, Samaritter, van Hooren, 2021; Tsachor & Shafi...

This paper discussion focuses on the contribution of the arts to knowledge. Central to the arts in research is the use of an aesthetic epistemic using the sensorial and kinaesthetic ways of knowing, which give information about the experiential aspects of human life, that are not expressible in other forms of communication (BARONE & EISNER, 2012; C...

Dance Movement Therapy (DMT) is an established treatment in mental health care for clients with a personality disorder (PD). Literature on DMT and personality disorder shows that self-regulation, interpersonal relationships, and cognition are key objectives to focus on during the clinical application of DMT for PD. To date, no systematic descriptio...

Ergebnisse von Studien weisen darauf hin, dass bewegungsbasierte Beobachtung eine wichtige Ergänzung zu bestehenden diagnostischen Instrumenten in der Grundschule darstellen (Gehrs, 2015). Kinder offenbaren ihre Persönlichkeit in Bewegungen, was Grund zu der Annahme gibt, dass schüchterne und sozial ängstliche Kinder durch beobachtbaren nonverbalen...

Background: People with a personality disorder (PD) suffer from enduring inflexible patterns in cognitions and emotions, leading to significant subjective distress, affecting both self and interpersonal functioning. In clinical practice, Dance Movement Therapy (DMT) is provided to clients with a PD, and although research continuously confirms the v...

Dynamic body feedback is used in dance movement therapy (DMT), with the aim to facilitate emotional expression and a change of emotional state through movement and dance for individuals with psychosocial or psychiatric complaints. It has been demonstrated that moving in a specific way can evoke and regulate related emotions. The current study aimed...

Abstract: The beneficial role of creative arts therapies, such as dance movement therapy (DMT), in the field of somatic and psychosocial wellbeing is increasingly recognized. A complication in the development of evidence-based recommendations for DMT for various somatic and psychosocial problems is that DMT studies often lack a clear description an...

“The original field of aesthetics is not art but reality” (Buck-Morss, 1992). In recent years arts therapies (ATs) have invested heavily to show their effectiveness through research in the clinical field and have developed training standards for the ATs curricula to educate students towards practice-based researchers (Smeijsters, 2009). In their st...

Kinderen en adolescenten met ASS ervaren vaak problemen in de non-verbale afstemming met anderen, hetgeen de ontwikkeling van het interpersoonlijke contact ernstig kan belemmeren. De interventie Shared Movement Approach (SMA) is een ontwikkelingsgerichte danstherapeutische behandelinterventie en is ontwikkeld als behandelaanbod in de ambulante GGZ...

Dit boek is het eerste Nederlandstalige overzicht van zowel de theoretische grondslagen als de methodische werkwijzen van danstherapie. De auteurs geven op professionele en persoonlijke wijze inzicht in het vak en beschrijven vanuit de praktijk diverse toepassingen van danstherapie in Nederland en Vlaanderen. Binnen de danstherapie sluit je als th...

Dit hoofdstuk presenteer een visie op danstherapie die gestoeld is op aspecten van dans, die als centrale werkfactoren van danstherapie in aanmerking komen.

Danstherapie bestaat in Nederland sinds de vroege jaren tachtig van de twintigste eeuw. Dit hoofdstuk geeft een overzicht over de ontwikkeling van het vakgebied in Nederland.

Het hoofdstuk geeft een overzicht van danstherapeutische interventies en danstherapeutische werkfactoren die van belang zijn in de behandeling van kinderen en jongeren met autisme. De Shared Movement Approach is een danstherapeutisch interventie die zich specifiek richt op de bevordering van de non-verbale afstemming bij deelnemers met autisme.

“The original field of aesthetics is not art but reality” (Buck-Morss, 1992). In recent years arts therapies (ATs) have invested heavily to show their effectiveness through research in the clinical field and have developed training standards for the ATs curricula to educate students towards practice-based researchers (Smeijsters, 2009). In their st...

The paper will draw on materials from arts therapies literature and comments from experts’ panels to discuss some specific characteristics of the arts therapies and to investigate the role of aesthetic engagement for resilience and mental well-being. The arts increasingly find their way as interventions in mental health domains. However, exploratio...

Chapter content: Autism is a developmental disorder with a cluster of markers in i) diminished ability to communicate, ii) reduced social functioning, and iii) preference for stereotype routines, which in conjunction lead to social-emotional withdrawal. Social relating and empathetic understanding have been considered an outcome of social cognition...

Background: Dance movement therapy (DMT) is a psychotherapeutic intervention that is used with participants with ASD in various settings. Regular clinical outcome monitoring in an outpatient setting in the Netherlands had shown positive effects on social attunement capacities in young people with ASD. However, a systematic study of the development...

This paper will present a movement-informed perspective to social attunement in Autism Spectrum Disorders (ASD). BACKGROUND: Dance movement therapy (DMT) is a psychotherapeutic intervention that is used with participants with ASD in various settings. Regular clinical outcome monitoring in an outpatient setting in the Netherlands had shown positive...

In dit artikel: • een scoping review over ervaringen van patiënten met danstherapie; • een onderbouwing voor het belang van lichaamsgerichte en psychologische uitkomsten van danstherapie; • een reflectie op verder onder-zoek naar de ervaringen van patiënten met danstherapeu­ tische interventies. Inleiding De afgelopen jaren heeft zich in de Nederla...

The politics of health care urge arts therapists to deliver evidence for the effectiveness of their interventions. The Dutch professional association has started to focus on the arts therapists’ specific contribution to clinical guidelines and effectiveness research. On one hand, the question is how to describe and implement highly complex interven...

PhD thesis in poster format.

This paper will present an art-based frame of reference to psychotherapeutic intervention. Structures form clinical Dance Movement Therapy (DMT) will serve as an example to investigate the specific contributions of kinaesthetically informed interactions to (experiential) psychotherapy. In DMT the working alliance between patient and therapist is in...

18th Herbstakademie THE CIRCULARITY OF MIND AND BODY MARCH 26th – 28th, 2015 in Heidelberg, Germany

This keynote addresses the relevance of dance movement therapy to promote resilience as lived practice throughout the lifespan. Building resilience is often described as one of the core themes in DMT. Luthar et al (2000) describe resilience as dynamic process of adaptation to serious threat or adversity. For the clinical contexts of DMT, therapist...

Early interpersonal experiences have been the focus of philosophy and developmental psychology for decades. Concepts of self and self-other relatedness seem to have an onset in early interaction patterns during dyadic relating. Phenomenologists consider the embodied, that is the intercorporeal dialogue, as the basis for self-other relating. Develop...

This text focuses on the specific structure of metaphors in terms of movement processes. The processing of symbolic movement material through structures derived from dance as an art form is investigated. Metaphors that support nonverbal attunement between patient and therapist, and how the use of metaphors and creative processes help establish the...

n de ambulante ggz hebben wij positieve ervaringen opgedaan met de combinatie van client-centered therapie (CC T) en dans- en bewegingstherapie (DBT) in de behandeling van persoonlijkheidsstoornissen. In de ontwikkelingsgerichte danstherapeutische interventie richt de therapeut(e) zich actief op de non-verbale afstemming met de cliënt. Doel is daar...

Kinaesthetic partnering as a model for mutual attunement in autisme spectrum disorders.

A new conceptualisation of intersubjectivity in terms of mutual kinetic attunement.

Scenes uit een danstherapie.

Summary In this article the author investigates some questions concerning the development of form in dance therapy. She starts with how form is developed in dance. Hence, she focuses upon the therapeutic significance of some aspects of form development. Finally, the focus is on the process of form development in therapy. This is illustrated by some...

This article presents some notions that are basic to creative dance and movement therapy. Both dance and movement are subdivided into personal and codified patterns. Examples from practice are given as illustrations. Subsequently an outline is given of the development of movement processes as encountered in the therapeutic practice. The ideas prese...