{"title":"When Death Precedes Birth: The Embodied Experiences of Women with a History of Miscarriage or Stillbirth—A Phenomenological Study Using Artistic Inquiry","authors":"Maria Renée Kurz","doi":"10.1007/s10465-020-09340-9","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s10465-020-09340-9","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Miscarriage and stillbirth are more prevalent than socially perceived and have often been discussed in nursing and medicine literature as solely a medical event to be managed, not a death to be mourned. Social silence, ambiguity surrounding the nature of what was lost, and a painful experience of having no right to mourn are common experiences faced by women with a history of miscarriage or stillbirth. While more recent psychiatry and counseling research has uncovered the extent of grief, trauma, and psychosocial impact following miscarriage and stillbirth, very few studies have sought to understand the bodily experience of living with this history. This phenomenological research study sought to understand and describe the embodied experiences of women who have had a miscarriage or stillbirth. A sample of three participants individually engaged in a movement elicitation procedure followed by a semi-structured verbal interview. Artistic inquiry methods (Hervey in Artistic inquiry in dance/movement therapy: Creative alternatives for research, Charles C Thomas, Springfield, IL, 2000) were integrated throughout the data analysis procedure (Moustakas in Phenomenological research methods, Sage Publications, Inc, Thousand Oaks, CA, 1994) to enhance the understanding of each woman’s current, lived-body experience. As a result, five universal themes emerged: Momentum of new life; Stuck in emptiness; Where is my body and where am I?; We go together; and Love does not forget. These themes are supported by the extant literature and the author suggests that the results from this study may be used to inform the integration and practice of dance/movement therapy interventions in miscarriage and stillbirth bereavement counseling and future dance/movement therapy research studies.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":44552,"journal":{"name":"AMERICAN JOURNAL OF DANCE THERAPY","volume":"42 2","pages":"194 - 222"},"PeriodicalIF":0.8,"publicationDate":"2020-11-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1007/s10465-020-09340-9","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"50476034","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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Michelle Wan Lok Chan, Dugan Coburn, Selena Coburn, Angela M. Grayson, Pamela Faith Lerman, Hang Yin Candy Lo, Carmen Marshall, Ebony T. Nichols, Megz Roberts, Paul Sevett, Michelle Quintus, Si Banyan Wang, Amanda Williams, Akiko N. Yokokawa, Melody Gamba
{"title":"ADTA 2019 Plenary Panel-Honoring Multiplicity: An Embodied Keynote Experience ADTA 54th Annual Conference Miami, FL","authors":"Michelle Wan Lok Chan, Dugan Coburn, Selena Coburn, Angela M. Grayson, Pamela Faith Lerman, Hang Yin Candy Lo, Carmen Marshall, Ebony T. Nichols, Megz Roberts, Paul Sevett, Michelle Quintus, Si Banyan Wang, Amanda Williams, Akiko N. Yokokawa, Melody Gamba","doi":"10.1007/s10465-020-09329-4","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s10465-020-09329-4","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":44552,"journal":{"name":"AMERICAN JOURNAL OF DANCE THERAPY","volume":"42 1","pages":"90 - 106"},"PeriodicalIF":0.8,"publicationDate":"2020-05-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1007/s10465-020-09329-4","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"50496814","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Correction to: Past, Present, Future: A Program Development Project Exploring Post Traumatic Slave Syndrome (PTSS) Using Experiential Education and Dance/Movement Therapy Informed Approaches","authors":"Bria Campbell","doi":"10.1007/s10465-020-09330-x","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s10465-020-09330-x","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":44552,"journal":{"name":"AMERICAN JOURNAL OF DANCE THERAPY","volume":"42 1","pages":"145 - 146"},"PeriodicalIF":0.8,"publicationDate":"2020-05-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1007/s10465-020-09330-x","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"50496863","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Correction to: Past, Present, Future: A Program Development Project Exploring Post Traumatic Slave Syndrome (PTSS) Using Experiential Education and Dance/Movement Therapy Informed Approaches","authors":"Bria Campbell","doi":"10.1007/s10465-020-09330-x","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s10465-020-09330-x","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":44552,"journal":{"name":"AMERICAN JOURNAL OF DANCE THERAPY","volume":"42 1","pages":"145 - 146"},"PeriodicalIF":0.8,"publicationDate":"2020-05-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1007/s10465-020-09330-x","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"52290768","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Martha Eddy, Mindful Movement: The Evolution of the Somatic Arts and Conscious Action","authors":"Valerie Blanc","doi":"10.1007/s10465-020-09328-5","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s10465-020-09328-5","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":44552,"journal":{"name":"AMERICAN JOURNAL OF DANCE THERAPY","volume":"42 1","pages":"139 - 142"},"PeriodicalIF":0.8,"publicationDate":"2020-05-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1007/s10465-020-09328-5","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"50472326","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}