Movement Analysis, method Cary Rick, is a depth psychological oriented Movement Therapy, which enables to experience the connection between body, mind and psyche.

We are embodying through movement. When we move, we act in life and at the same time we relate to each other and to our environment.

Cary Rick, solo performer and actor, born in Chicago, after leaving theatre and working as educational director of a Dancetherapy School in Germany evaluating diverse techniques of Dance Therapy critically, founded first the Association of Dance Therapy/ Movement Analysis, method Cary Rick in Austria, Switzerland and Germany and after in 1994, when he definitively left other theories of dance therapy he founded  the Institute for Movement Analysis in Switzerland. The Institute is recognized internationally as a Training and Research Institute by the American Dance and Movement Therapy Association ADTA.

 

In movement analytic theory, MOVEMENT IS not understood simbolically or as behaviour, but as ACTION in intersubjective experience.

 

Cary Rick wanted first of all aleviate human suffering, improving the capacity of action of the suffering person, investigating the direct interconnection between pathologies, motor skills and relationship and so no longer run the risk of stimulating the compulsive, histrionic part of the theatrical expression of movement.

The motor diagnosis of Movement Analysis refers to everyday movements in their intersubjective context.

Theoretically, Movement Analysis is linked to the investigations of the psicoanalist Daniel N. Stern (The Interpersonal World of the Infant) and the intersubjective theories of the psicoanalists George Atwood and Robert Stolorow (Contexts of Being)

 

When we move, we act and relate to others and our environment.                             

As Movement Analysts we start from the concept, that we usually have the ability to solve our problems. But in case of illness, alternatives of movement contradict each other. Distinct impulses struggle with each other, resistance begins to exist in action, and movement begins to "crystallize." Our ability to act in life is blocked. We can no longer act and solve our problems and we start using compensatory actions instead of doing at the right time what is appropriate and necessary for us.                    

 

During a movement analytic session we get the possibility to feel and get conscious of the specific conflict of EMBODIMENT and the movements/actions which are related to this conflict and so the process of solving it can be initiated.

A movement analytic therapy process helps you to become conscious of your movements and the conected emotions - movements are our actions - and promotes the understanding of your movements/actions in the contexts of your relationships.

 

To become conscious and fully aware of your own movements in intersubjective experience, means, to strenghten our existencial resources, to dissolve our conflicts of embodiment and to improve the relationship with ourselves and with others.

 

General application

•   in psiquiatric clinics and private practice

                - post-traumatic stress disorders PTSD              

                - eating disorders

                - depressive disorders (bipolarity, burnout)                

                - all kinds of psychosomatic illnesses 

                - addictions and others..

• in rehabilitation
• as prevention
• in the artistic field
• in management (coaching)
• in the educational field
• in special education

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