Body Memory, Metaphor and Movement

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Sabine C. Koch | University of Heidelberg

Thomas Fuchs | University of Heidelberg

Michela Summa | University of Heidelberg

Cornelia Müller | European University Viadrina, Frankfurt (Oder)

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Body Memory, Metaphor and Movement is an interdisciplinary volume with contributions from philosophers, cognitive scientists, and movement therapists. Part one provides the phenomenologically grounded definition of body memory with its different typologies. Part two follows the aim to integrate phenomenology, conceptual metaphor theory, and embodiment approaches from the cognitive sciences for the development of appropriate empirical methods to address body memory. Part three inquires into the forms and effects of therapeutic work with body memory, based on the integration of theory, empirical findings, and clinical applications. It focuses on trauma treatment and the healing power of movement. The book also contributes to metaphor theory, application and research, and therefore addresses metaphor researchers and linguists interested in the embodied grounds of metaphor. Thus, it is of particular interest for researchers from the cognitive sciences, social sciences, and humanities as well as clinical practitioners.

[Advances in Consciousness Research, 84] 2012. vii, 468 pp.

Publishing status: Available

https://doi.org/10.1075/aicr.84

Table of Contents

Introduction | pp. 1–6

Part I. Contributions from phenomenology

Chapter 1. The phenomenology of body memory

Thomas Fuchs | pp. 9–22

Chapter 2. Body memory and the genesis of meaning

Michela Summa | pp. 23–41

Chapter 3. Kinesthetic memory: Further critical reflections and constructive analyses

Maxine Sheets-Johnstone | pp. 43–72

Chapter 4. Comment on Thomas Fuchs: The time of the explicating process

Eugene T. Gendlin | pp. 73–81

Chapter 5. Enduring: A phenomenological investigation

Elizabeth A. Behnke | pp. 83–103

Chapter 6. Body memory and dance

Mónica E. Alarcón Dávila | pp. 105–112

Part II. Contributions from cognitive sciences

Chapter 7. Implicit body memory

Petra Jansen | pp. 115–120

Chapter 8. Embodied concepts

Christina Bermeitinger and Markus Kiefer | pp. 121–140

Chapter 9. Cognitive perspectives on embodiment

Christina Jung and Peggy Sparenberg | pp. 141–154

Chapter 10. Dynamic embodiment and its functional role: A body feedback perspective

Caterina Suitner, Sabine C. Koch, Katharina Bachmeier and Anne Maass | pp. 155–170

Chapter 11. Testing Fuchs’ taxonomy of body memory: A content analysis of interview data

Sabine C. Koch | pp. 171–186

Chapter 12. Metaphorical instruction and body memory

Claudia Böger | pp. 187–199

Chapter 13. Body memory and the emergence of metaphor in movement and speech: An interdisciplinary case study

Astrid Kolter, Silva H. Ladewig, Michela Summa, Cornelia Müller, Sabine C. Koch and Thomas Fuchs | pp. 201–226

Chapter 14. Moved by God: Performance and memory in the Western Himalayas

William Sax and Karin Polit | pp. 227–242

Chapter 15. The memory of the cell

Ralf P. Meyer | pp. 243–251

Part III. Contributions from embodied therapies

Chapter 16. Sensation, movement, and emotion: Explicit procedures for implicit memories

Christine Caldwell | pp. 255–265

Chapter 17. Memory, metaphor, and mirroring in movement therapy with trauma patients

Marianne Eberhard-Kaechele | pp. 267–287

Chapter 18. Body memory as a part of the body image

Päivi Pylvänäinen | pp. 289–306

Chapter 19. The embodied word

Heidrun Panhofer, Helen Payne, Timothy Parke and Bonnie Meekums | pp. 307–325

Chapter 20. Emotorics: Development and body memory

Yona Shahar-Levy | pp. 327–340

Chapter 21. The emergence of body memory in Authentic Movement

Ilka Konopatsch and Helen Payne | pp. 341–352

Chapter 22. Nakedness, hunger, hooks and hearts: Embodied memories and movement psychological processes in dance therapy and movement pedagogy

Helle Winther | pp. 353–367

Chapter 23. Dance/movement therapy with traumatized dissociative patients

Sabine C. Koch and Steve Harvey | pp. 369–385

Chapter 24. Focusing, felt sensing and body memory

Elmar Kruithoff | pp. 387–392

Chapter 25. Mindfulness, embodiment, and depression

Johannes Michalak, Jan M. Burg and Thomas Heidenreich | pp. 393–413

Part IV. Conclusions

Chapter 26. Body memory: An integration

Michela Summa, Sabine C. Koch, Thomas Fuchs and Cornelia Müller | pp. 417–444

Authors notes | pp. 445–452

Addresses for correspondence | pp. 453–457

Index | pp. 459–468

“Overall, this book provides a welcome expansion on the implications of implicit memory for our view of the individual. It also constitutes a much needed attempt at connecting basic cognitive science and applied clinical work.”

Julio Santiago, University of Granada, in Metaphor and Symbol Vol. 29:1 (2014), pp. 62-65

“[T]his volume is an invaluable contribution to the literature on body memory.”

Pilar Mompeán Guillamón, University of Castilla La Mancha, in Metaphor and the Social World Vol. 4:2 (2014), pp. 293-298

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