Dr. Tina Stromsted introduces her Soul’s Body® approach in this extraordinary volume, engaging the body–psyche connection in psychotherapeutic work. Through compelling case studies, the author illustrates multidisciplinary concepts, therapeutic techniques, trauma-informed practices, and essential teaching guidelines for body–psyche–spirit healing. Stromsted’s method expands Authentic Movement, rooted in Jung’s Active Imagination approach, into a range of creative somatic practices within depth psychotherapy. Soul’s Body® cultivates deeper self-awareness through bodily expression, dreamwork, creative imagination, empathic relationship, community engagement, and our connection with nature. This collection illuminates elements in the embodied healing process that can benefit professionals in the healing arts―Jungian analysts, clinicians, somatic psychotherapists, dancers, bodyworkers, artists, students, spiritual practitioners, and creative arts therapists. With over 45 years of clinical experience and decades of collaborations with pioneering clinicians Joan Chodorow, Marion Woodman, Janet Adler, and Stanley Keleman, Stromsted guides readers on an engaging journey toward conscious embodiment. This book is an essential resource for anyone interested in Jungian depth work, embodied spirituality, and cultivating a vital, meaningful life. 'I have known and appreciated Tina Stromsted for many years and shared the podium with her in several major conferences, bringing together my own work on trauma’s defenses with her work on Authentic Movement. Here, she has collected important papers and presentations together with new material in the fine book you now hold in your hands. Her work has always been important to the field and is especially relevant now because we have finally come to understand that all trauma is an injury to the capacity to feel, and that early, unremembered trauma is encoded in the body where it remains inaccessible to rational or interpretive methods of psychotherapy. Learning how to work with the body on behalf of frozen or unconscious feelings is therefore crucial to the healing of early trauma, and Tina’s enlightening book explores many such methods and provides vivid case examples of her remarkable integrative healing approach. I highly recommend this book!' Donald Kalsched , PhD, Jungian analyst and author of Trauma and the Soul 'Over the years, Tina Stromsted, a pioneer in studies of somatic psychotherapy and scholar in Jungian theory, and I, in interpersonal neurobiology, have engaged in a mutually enriching interdisciplinary dialogue. We both share a common interest in the central themes of this remarkable book―the fundamental relationships between mind and body, the critical role of emotional processes, and the development of the unconscious mind. Other areas include trauma, metaphors, spontaneous gestures, and images, all essential processes of the right brain―the neurobiological locus of Jung’s anima, and the source of the feminine component of the personality. This remarkable book, the capstone of her prolific career, contains a treasure trove of fascinating case material and clinical wisdom. It is essential reading for anyone working with the deeper bodily-based strata of the human psyche.' Allan Schore , PhD, Neuroscientist and neuropsychoanalyst, author of The Right Brain and the Origin of Human Nature 'Soul’s Body is vital resource, blending Active Imagination, movement, and embodied practices with Jungian thought in ways that are profoundly applicable to our modern world. Whether you are a clinician, a health practitioner, a student, or someone seeking personal healing, you will find this book to be a wise and compassionate guide. Tina’s gentle yet penetrating curiosity invites you to join her exploration as she guides us in a living dance through a process of embodied consciousness―connecting us more deeply to ourselves, one another, and the Earth itself. I know of no one better to bring you this profoundly integrative healing work.' Joan Chodorow , PhD, Jungian analyst, author of Dance Therapy & Depth Psychology: The Moving Imagination 'You don’t have to be a dancer to explore the emotions, memories, and dreams trapped in the cells of your body. Soul’s Body invites the reader to tap into the story of your body through natural movement. Tina Stromsted has been a practitioner and teacher of Authentic Movement for decades, and this book charts her journey as well as the evolution of her integrative therapeutic approach. Through examples from her clinical practice with individuals and cross-cultural groups Tina demonstrates how following the imagination as it moves through the body heals the split between body and psyche. Soul’s Body is a masterpiece―a gift to us all, extensive in its scholarship and practical in its use.' Maureen Murdock , PhD, psychotherapist and author of The Heroine’s Journey , and Mythmaking: Self-Discovery and the Timeless Art of Memoir 'You