Chodorow, Joan, 1937-

Joan Chodorow (born May 29, 1937) is an American dance/movement therapist, Jungian psychoanalyst, international teacher, scholar and author. Chodorow is a Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) in psychology, a licensed marriage and family therapist (LMFT), and an American Dance Therapy Association board-certified dance/movement therapist (BC-DMT). As a leading pioneer of Active imagination in movement (also known as Authentic Movement or Movement in Depth), she published widely. Her books include Dance therapy and depth psychology: the moving imagination and Jung on Active Imagination. A selection of her articles appear in Authentic movement: essays by Mary Starks Whitehouse, Janet Adler and Joan Chodorow edited by Patrizia Pallaro. Her work has been translated into 20 languages, including Bulgarian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, French, German, Hebrew, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Mandarin, Polish, Russian, and Spanish. She was the co-developer of the Archetypal Affect System, with her late husband, Jungian psychoanalyst Dr. Louis H. Stewart, and his brother, child psychiatrist Dr. Charles T. Stewart. In 1999, Chodorow was selected to present the Marian Chace Foundation Lecture for the American Dance Therapy Association (ADTA). In 2009, she received the American Dance Therapy Association Lifetime Achievement Award.