About Susan Scarth

Susan has gained the following qualifications: Masters in Creative Arts Therapies - MCAT, Senior Registered Dance Movement Psychotherapist - SrDMP, Certified Movement Analyst - CMA

I completed my professional training as a dance movement therapist at the Laban Centre London with a thesis on DMP group work in a womenʼs refuge in 1992. Prior to training in DMP I worked in social services, NHS psychiatric services and the voluntary sector. I have experience of working with children and adults across a range of these services.

My particular interest is in trauma and how DMP might promote mental health and well being in people who experience PTSD. To this end I have undertaken further training in Sensorimotor Psychotherapy and believe that movement analysis is an additional tool for addressing deep seated physiological responses to trauma.

I am a lecturer at Queen Margaret University, Edinburgh on the MSc DMP programme and a visiting lecturer on similar DMP programmes in Europe, including Ukraine, Sardinia, Latvia and Poland. I offer specialist skills in supervision and movement observation and analysis.

Publications

1992 Dance Movement Therapy Groupwork with Women Survivors of Domestic Abuse. Masters Thesis for the completion of the Masters (MCAT) programme with Hahneman/Laban Centre for Movement and Dance.

1995 Supervision on the Move, article in Association for Dance Movement Therapy UK quarterly Newsletter. ISSN 0267-7598

2001 Rudolpho: Dance Movement Therapy and the power of the non-verbal. e-motion ADMT UK Quarterly publication

2009 Book Review of The Embodied Mind by Katya Bloom (2006) in Body, Movement and Dance in Psychotherapy Journal, Taylor & Francis.

2009 Moore, C. & Stammermann (Eds.) Traumazentrierte. Tanz- und Bewegungspsychotherapie Trauma (Trauma theory: Dance and Movement Psychotherapy). Scarth, S. 'Integrating the effects of a traumatic upbringing during transition from boyhood to manhood'. Schattauer:Stuttgart, Germany.