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Abortion And Dance/Movement Therapy: A Mind-Body Approach To Healing, Jacqueline Mcnally
Abortion And Dance/Movement Therapy: A Mind-Body Approach To Healing, Jacqueline Mcnally
Dance/Movement Therapy Theses
Abortion is one of the most common procedures in the United States with roughly a quarter of the female population receiving the procedure before the age of 45. Abortion is often an emotionally significant event that changes the course of someone’s life. For some of those women, negative physical and psychological symptoms can emerge post abortion. Grief, depression, trauma-based disorders, and concealable stigmas may accompany the range of physical changes. Communication is 55% nonverbal, therefore using a body-based modality for expression and healing is crucial. Dance/movement therapy is a body based modality that’s core principle uses the body as a …