The Invisible Body – Conflicts of Embodiment in Movement Analytic Therapy, method Cary Rick
When we move, we embody. Our invisible body is moving us; it is the idea of our self, as a result of our relationships that we were living since infancy. To move means to act in life and to ensure our existence. In Movement Analytic Theory we diagnose the kinesthetic, the formal, the functional and the gender embodiment that manifests as a particular movement-sindrome: the senso-motoric, the fisio-motoric, the action-motoric and the psycho-motoric movement-sindrome. Illness in Movement Analyses diagnose, is seen as an unusual way of applying available personal motoric resources. The ability to solve interactive conflicts is an inherent part of human nature that requires specific resources. Sick people unconsciously suppress these resources and compensate their conflicts through other resources.
In a Movement Analytic session the client/ patient has the possibility to perceive suppressed and available movement ressources, getting in contact with his invisible body through movement and inter-subjectivity and by feeling the conflict, to begin to integrate movements that were not available. Cary Rick, the founder of Movement Analysis says: ‘We are referring to an invisible body that is only manifest in subjective experience connected intimately to the sense of self. Development and maturation, socialization and interaction, illness and re-convalescence, aging and dying perpetually expose the personal conception of one’s body to change. This very changeability however promotes an ever greater self-understanding, a lightened understanding of others and of the inter-active potential of the act of movement.
