What is it about?
The article relies on previous research that found that mismatches between verbal and nonverbal modalities are a sign of change. Expanding the term to include opposition and clashing in general, and relying on theories of early child development, that discovered that normal development is a series of matches and mismatches between the caretaker and the child, I show how mismatching can be introduced to the area of dance movement therapy, mainly to explain various existing practices and also as an intervention tool in therapy and supervision session.
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Why is it important?
Mismatching as I defined it here, is a common practice among dance movement therapists, although most literature presents only the benefits of matching interventions. This article offers a conceptualization of this common practice, thus enabling the practitioner to better understand it, and feel good about doing this. As one senior therapist told me: "Oh, we have been doing this for years, but you explain us why!"
Perspectives
Dr. Orit Sônia Waisman is a dance movement therapist, a linguist and an artist. She is the head of the Dance Movement Therapy Masters Program at "David Yellin College" in Jerusalem, since 2006. She has extensive experience as a dance movement therapist and as a supervisor with various populations, in private and public settings. She is a Jungian scholar at the "Israel Institute of Jungian Psychology". Her book: "Body, Language and Movement in Conflict Situations" was published by John Benjamins Publishing company in 2010. It reflects an innovative holistic approach to text analysis, integrating verbal and nonverbal signs, concentrating on mismatches as markers of significance.
Dr Orit Sonia Waisman
David Yellin College of Education
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This page is a summary of: Mismatches as milestones in dance movement therapy, Body Movement and Dance in Psychotherapy, August 2014, Taylor & Francis,
DOI: 10.1080/17432979.2014.947324.
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