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Publication History (List)
Dr Marcia B. Leventhal
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An Introduction to Historical Antecedents and Theory Contributing to the Development of a Wholistic Model of Embodied Therapeutic Intervention and Treatment ©2013
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Moving Towards Meaning; The Journey From Creating in Dance to a Healing Paradigm of Dance Movement Therapy ©2012
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The Quantum Healing Dance Matrix; The Dance Therapy Journey into Change and Healing ©1997
Dr Marcia B. Leventhal
Dance Therapy as Treatment of Choice For the Emotionally Disturbed and Learning Disabled Child ©1980
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Publications (Selected and Partial List)
An Introduction to Historical Antecedents and Theory Contributing to the Development of a Wholistic Model of Embodied Therapeutic Intervention and Treatment, 2013. Publication Pending.
Dr Marcia B. Leventhal
The Healing Rhythm of the Dyadic Union: CORD Annual, publication pending. Melbourne, Australia, 2013. DTAA Journal: Moving On.
Dr Marcia B. Leventhal
How I Learned a Basic Dance Therapy Tenant, publication pending 2013. Melbourne, Australia. DTAA Journal: Moving On.
Dr Marcia B. Leventhal
Moving Towards Meaning: The Journey from Creating in Dance to a Healing Paradigm of Dance Movement Therapy. World Congress on Dance Research; The Dance Therapy Congress, International Dance Council, CID. Proceedings, 2012, Athens, Greece.
Dr Marcia B. Leventhal
What is Healing? Lessons Learned fromDance Therapists’ Journeys Through Life/Body Altering Events. American Dance Therapy Conference, Published Proceedings, 2012. (With Eleanora DiPalma and Iris Rikin-Gainer.)
Dr Marcia B. Leventhal
Training the Trainer; Essential Components in the Teaching and Disseminating of Dance Movement Therapy Worldwide. American Dance Therapy Conference, Published Proceedings, 2011.
Dr Marcia B. Leventhal
Transformation and Healing Through Dance Movement Therapy: The Challenge and Imperative of Holding the Vision; American Journal of Dance Therapy. Vol. 30, No 1, June 2008. pp. 4-23, Springer, NYC
Dr Marcia B. Leventhal
The Quantum Healing Dance Matrix; The Dance Therapy Journey into Change and Healing. National Congress of the Hungarian Psychiatric Association: Psychopathology of Expression Section. Published Proceedings, 1998, Budapest, Hungary.
Dr Marcia B. Leventhal
Journey to the Heart of Matter; Transformation and Healing Through Dance Movement. Rainbow Publications, Melbourne, Australia. Publication Pending
Dr Marcia B. Leventhal
Dance Movement Therapy. Encyclopedia of Disability and Rehabilitation, Macmillan, 1994.
Dr Marcia B. Leventhal
Knowing and Beyond: Out of Fragmentation and into Wholeness. Notes on the Dance Event as a Catalyst for Change and Healing, Dance in a Changing World, 1993, JABADAO, Leeds, England.
Dr Marcia B. Leventhal
Moving Towards Health; Stages of Therapeutic Unfolding in Dance Movement, Research in Arts Medicine, A Cappella Books, 1993, Chicago, Ill.
Dr Marcia B. Leventhal
An Interview with Valerie Hunt: American Journal of Dance Therapy, Vol. 14, 1991, American Dance Therapy Association, Columbia, Maryland.
Dr Marcia B. Leventhal
The Dance of Life: Dance and Movement Therapy for the Older Adult: Topics in Geriatrics Rehabilitation, 1989 Vol. 4:4 Aspen Press, Rockville, Md. (co-author J. Schwartz).
Dr Marcia B. Leventhal
The Ancient Healing Art of Dance: Australian Association for Dance Education, Fall 1987, Melbourne, Australia.
Dr Marcia B. Leventhal
The Aesthetics of Healing: Reflections on the Inner Dance: Current Research in Art’s Medicine. (co-author M. Berger). A cappella Books. New Jersey, 1993. (WINNER OF 1991 MED ARTS INTERNATIONALCONFERENCE AS BEST PAPER IN ART AS MEDICINE).
Dr Marcia B. Leventhal
An Interview with Alma Hawkins: American Journal of Dance Therapy, Vol. 7, 1984, American Dance Therapy Association, Columbia, Maryland.
Dr Marcia B. Leventhal
Graduate Research & Studies in Dance Movement Therapy, 1972-1982, Editor, Council of Graduate Dance Movement Therapy Educators, Hahnemann University, Philadelphia, PA. 1983.
Dr Marcia B. Leventhal
Dance Therapy: A Fundamental Treatment Process. Swedish Journal of Anthropology and Dance, Stockholm, Sweden: May, 1983.
Dr Marcia B. Leventhal
Career Preparation for Dancers; (co-author, J. Schwartz) Differentiation of Education vs. Therapy, Children and Youth Dancing DACI, Stockholm, Sweden 1982.
Dr Marcia B. Leventhal
Movement & Growth: dance therapy for the special child. New York, New York University, 1980, (editor & contributor).
Dr Marcia B. Leventhal
Dance Therapy as treatment of choice for the emotionally disturbed and learning disabled child. In Riordan and Fitt, Eds., Dance for the Handicapped. Reston, Va., American Alliance of Health, Physical Education, Recreation and Dance, 1980 (also chosen by the editors to be published in Journal of Physical Education and Recreation, September 1980, 51(7).).
Dr Marcia B. Leventhal
Structure in dance therapy; a model for personality integration, in Rowe, P., and Stodelle, E., Eds., CORD Annual X. New York, Congress on Research in Dance, 1979.
Dr Marcia B. Leventhal
Movement therapy with minimal brain dysfunction children, Focus on Dance vii. Journal of AAHPERD, Spring, 1984, Washington, D.C.
Dr Marcia B. Leventhal
Research in Movement Therapy - adaption, definition, growth. Proceedings, 1973, Lawrence, Kansas; American Dance Therapy Association.
Dr Marcia B. Leventhal
Movement at the Manhattan School, Association for Mentally Ill Children Newsletter, Fall, 1978.
Dr Marcia B. Leventhal
Report of a Research Project in Movement and Dance, The Manhattan School for Seriously Disturbed Children. Distributed in-house, 1970.
Dr Marcia B. Leventhal
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