Using Voice and Movement in Therapy: The Practical Application of Voice Movement Therapy - Softcover

Newham, Paul

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1849852383 ISBN 13: 9781849852388

Publisher: Jessica Kingsley, 1999

Synopsis

Using Voice and Movement in Therapy A practical guide to the way in which physical movement and the expressive use of the voice can facilitate therapy. Paul Newham examines how massage, manipulation and dance, combined with vocal expression, can allevieate certain emotional, psychosomatic and psychological symptoms.

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Review

Both books certainly provide a wealth of interesting concepts, structured theoretical frameworks for considering movement and voicework, detailed descriptions of practical exercises and techniques and clear case studies. Readers need to be aware that Newham uses an eclectic mixture of physiological, psychological, mythological and artististic approaches in his work. Personally, I find this blend of scientific and artistic approaches to be innovative, erudite, stimulating and reassuring. Newham is a sincere and enormously able practitioner who has a unique abiliy to connect deeply linked aspects of personality and voice. Newham's books are of value to therapists already interested in the emotional release aspects of voice work with clients, and those beginning to investigate the whole field of psychotherapeutic literature. They fulfill his own goal "to be both theoretically informative and practically inspiring - there are parts of the voice movement methodology which theorists from other orientations can borrow from, adapt and utilise." -- Bulletin Over the past 15 years, P. Newham has been developing a systematic methodology for using singing and vocalisation as a theraputic modality. Here he examines how massage, manipulation and dance, combined with vocal expression, can alleviate certain emotional, psychomatic and psychological symptoms. He describes therapeutic techniques and exercises which he has found to be effective, illustrating these with case studies. It's the first of a series of three volumes which concern the practical application of voice movement therapy. -- International Theatre Information

About the Author

Paul Newham is a voice and movement therapist and voice therapy trainer. He is the Founding Director of the International Association for Voice Movement Therapy and directs the professional training course in voice movement therapy at the London Voice Centre.

Edition details

• Publisher: Jessica Kingsley
• Publication date: 1999
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1849852383
• ISBN 13: 9781849852388
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 212