ABSTRACT
This part conclusion presents some closing thoughts on the key concepts discussed in the preceding chapters. The part offers the links between psychoanalytic theory and movement analysis. It could be speculated that in each case presented there was a weak internalized object, which had established a sense of helplessness very early on in these patients' lives that interfered with normal childhood dependence. The patients' transformation from stuck patterns of relationships with both object and self to deeper and more fluid patterns of relating in which ambivalent feelings could be borne, have been broadly summed up in both movement and psychoanalytic terms. All the women were successful in shifting their primitive infantile patterns, taking back projections and successfully transforming their internal worlds. The transformations were evident in both their embodied experience through movement and their psychological and emotional states.
