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  Ed Koffenberger March 29, 2011 at 7:54am

  Amen to wanting to work with shadow rather than splitting it off - this was most pointedly part of the Black Swan "message" to me. I also agree with your distaste for the word "disorder." Smacks of dualistic healthy/unhealthy static state thinking rather than life being a process toward wholeness. I find the wholeness perspective much more positive and hopeful for myself as well as for those with whom I work.
  Just a thought (and maybe a wild one at that), would movement work with people with eating challenges allowing their bodies to experience something pleasurable that does not have any direct connection to food? And allows some control that doesn't involve food? (I am a novice in the area of eating challenges and am wondering how depth/archetypal psychology would understand the dynamic.) Thanks for our continued dialogue. I am learning. :)
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  Ed Koffenberger March 25, 2011 at 7:54pm

  You mention the Black Swan and it has kicked up quite a response here am,ong the dancers I know. They either love it or hate it. With such opposite emotions, I have to think the movie "touched a nerve."
  I was once part of a dance "experience" where all who attended were to choreography some moment of psychic release and then the head dancer wove the different stories together. My cancer was my part and that was woven with a young girl with anorexia and an older woman who was wrestling with age issues. It was all quite powerful and the group found so many human connections regardless of age or gender or personal issue.
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  Ed Koffenberger March 21, 2011 at 12:22pm

  Curiously, I just "wrote" to another Alliance person about how if you don't use the terms unconscious or depth psychology, most people will agree with the way such an entity influences our lives. Yet when you throw in those terms, the response is "Well, I don't know if I agree with that."  :)  CBT is the dominant theory in the US as well. Research $ and licensing is heavily in this area, and then you throw in neuroscience. Your foundation is similar to mine with Rogers, Erikson (Erik), Maslow, Gestalt, and then Narrative Therapy with some expressive therapy approaches "on the side." I've found narrative therapy and Jungian understandings the easiest to connect. Exterior systems with interior systems. I enjoy TA in that it gives a common language and a metaphor that is usable by practitioner and client. In other words, don't ask me what my modality of approach is!! :)

  Please tell me when you are introducing people to dance, it will add a bright spot to the day.

  Ed
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  Bonnie Bright March 21, 2011 at 12:07pm

  Hi Roni; Welcome to the Alliance. So glad you've found us. Asheville Jung Center has been a wonderful friend and promoter of the community and its always nice to find people who know their great work as well. I think you will find this place to be a wonderful space in which to engage and share. I hope you will jump in and comment or share your work however it feels right. Enjoy, and if I can help you navigate in any way, please don't hesitate to ask.
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  Ed Koffenberger March 21, 2011 at 8:15am

  Thanks roni,

  Dance Therapy and Depth Psychology is now on my list. How is your following as you work in this area?
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  Ed Koffenberger March 20, 2011 at 5:31pm

  Welcome roni,

  I am intrigued by your integration of dance and depth psychology. I have watched yoga being used as a depth approach in counseling so it stands to reason that dance would also open up areas of one's psyche unavailable to traditional talk approaches. As a supporter of dance as an art, I have personally found much opened within myself while being an outward observer/inward participant. Glad you have joined the Alliance.

  Also, my sister lives in Somerset so any connection with the UK brings me joy. :)

  Ed