ABSTRACT
Embodied psychotherapy practices honour the cultivation of corporeal awareness as an integral part of emotional health. Somatic psychotherapy (or body psychotherapy) and dance/movement therapy (or dance movement psychotherapy) both focus on embodied experience in the psychotherapeutic process, and, although seemingly interchangeable, distinct essential characteristics separate the two. This chapter explains the differences between them in terms of how each discipline attends to embodied experience through the lens of having a body (somatic psychotherapy) and moving one’s body (dance/movement therapy), as well as their independent contributions to the larger field of psychotherapy.
