Foreword to Trauma Book

Hot off the presses, a new and ground-breaking book by Rebekka Dietrich-Hartwell and Anne Margrethe Melsom called Dance/Movement Therapy for Trauma Survivors: Theoretical, Clinical, and Cultural Perspectives. This text offers a broad survey of the role that movement and body work can play in the healing of trauma, across settings, contexts, and patient populations. Integrating neuroscience and important attention to equity in the face of racial marginalization, this book is certain to become a classic in the field.

Dr. Haen was delighted to provide the foreword for this book, in which he considers how far the field of psychotherapy has come in understanding the need for wholistic, multidimensional approaches to trauma treatment…and how far we still have to go. If you are a clinical professional who would like to expand your understanding of working somatically with trauma, you will likely find practical skills and inspiration in this comprehensive new book!