ABSTRACT
The chapter presents a Dance Movement Therapy (DMT) model aiming to alleviate depression. The model is based on the author’s clinical experience and doctoral research and focuses on improving embodiment and body image. The four essential factors in the DMT group processes are the modulation of stress level, safety, interaction, and dialogue. DMT techniques evoke creative responding in the interactional moment, enabling access to and ways to modulate the implicit and explicit patterns of responding, that systemically constitute the individual’s ways of relating with the environment and the self. DMT facilitates learning of more flexible ways of relating, thus alleviating depression.
