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Press/PublicationsChapters• Serlin, I. A., Goldov, N., & Hansen, E. (2017). Dance/Movement Therapy and Breast Cancer Care: A Wellbeing Approach. In Karkou, V., Oliver, S. and Lycouris, S. (Eds.), The Oxford Handbook of Dance and Wellbeing. Oxford, England: Oxford Press. • Serlin, Ilene A. and Hansen, Erika (2015). Stanley Krippner: Advocate for Healing Trauma. In Jeannine A. Davis & Daniel B. Pitchford (Eds.), Stanley Krippner: A Life of Dreams, Myths, and Visions, Colorado Springs, CO: University Professors Press. • Criswell, E. and Serlin, I. (2015). Humanistic Psychology, Mind-Body Medicine and Whole Person Health Care. In K. Schneider, S.F. Pierson, & J. F. T. Bugental (Eds.), The Handbook of Humanistic Theory, Research and Practice, 653-666. Los Angeles, CA: Sage. • Serlin, I. A. (2014). Kinaesthetic Imagining. In B.E. Thompson & R.A. Neimeyer (Eds.), Grief and the Expressive Therapies: Practices for Creating meaning, 116-119. New York: Routledge. • Bella, K. A. and Serlin, I. A. (2013). Expressive and Creative Arts Therapies. In Harris L. Friedman & Glenn Hartclius (Eds.), The Wiley-Blackwell Handbook of Transpersonal Psychology. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd. • Serlin, I. A. (2012). Literary expressions of trauma. In C. Figley (Ed.), Encyclopedia of trauma: An interdisciplinary guide, 352-354. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications • Serlin, I. A. (2012). The courage to move. In S. Schwartz, V. Marcow Speiser, P. Speiser, & M. Kossak (Eds.), The arts and social change: The Lesley University experience in Israel, 117-125. Zur Yigal, Israel: Porat Books. • Serlin, I. (2010). Dance/Movement Therapy. In The Corsini Encyclopedia of Psychology, (Fourth Edition, pp. 459-460). Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons. • Berger, M. R., Serlin, I. A., & Siderits, M. A. (2007). Dancing Women's Freedom: The Story of Isadora Duncan. In E. Gavin, A. Clamar, M.A. Siderits (Eds.), Women of vision: Their psychology, circumstances, and success. New York, NY: Springer Publishing Company. • Serlin, I. A. (2007). The arts therapies: whole person integrative approaches to healthcare. Theory and practice of arts therapies. In I. Serlin (Ed.), Whole person healthcare: The arts and Health (vol. 3, pp 107-120). Westpost, CT: Praeger Publishers. • Serlin, I. A. (2007). Dance and religion. In Encyclopedia of Religion. Farmington Hills, MI: Gale Publishing. • Serlin, I. A. (2007). Action stories. In S. Krippner, M. Bova, L. Gray (Eds.), Healing stories: The use of narrative in counseling and psychotherapy, 325-336. Charlottesville, VA : Puente Publications. • Serlin, I. A. (2006). Expressive therapies. In M.S. Micozzi (Eds). Complementary and integrative medicine in cancer care and prevention, 81-94. New York, NY: Springer Publishing Company. • Serlin, I. A. (2006). Psychological effects of the virtual media coverage of the Iraq war: A postmodern humanistic perspective. In P.R. Kimmel, C. E. Stout (Eds.). Collateral damage: How the U.S. war on terrorism is harming American mental health, 153-171. Westport, CT: Praeger Publishers. • Serlin, I. A. (2005). Dancing stories. In G.Yancy & S. Hadley (Eds.). Narrative identities psychologists engage in self-construction, 245-260. London, England: Jessica Kingsley Publications. • Serlin, I. A. and Cannon, J. T. (2004). A humanistic approach to the psychology of trauma. In D. Knafo (Ed). Living with terror, working with trauma: A clinician's handbook. Lanham, MD: Jason Aronson. • Serlin, I. A. (2004). Religious and spiritual issues in couples therapy. In M. Harway (Ed) Handbook of couples therapy. Manhattan, NY: John Wiley & Sons. • Serlin, I. A. (2004). Spiritual diversity and clinical practice. In J.L. Chin (Ed) The psychology of prejudice and discrimination, Volume 4: Disability, religion, physique, and other traits, 27-44. Westport, CT: Praeger Perspectives. • Serlin, I. A. & Criswell, E. (2001). Humanistic psychology and women: A critical-historical perspective. In K. Schneider, J. Bugental, J. Pierson (Eds.). Handbook of Humanistic Psychology: Leading Edges of Theory, Research, and Practice. New York, NY: Sage Publications. • Serlin, I. A. & Shane, P., (1999). Laura Perls and Gestalt therapy: her life and values. In Moss, D. (Ed.), Humanistic and Transpersonal Psychology: A Historial and Biographical Sourcebook, 375-384. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press. • Serlin, I. (1998). The dialogue of movement: An interview/conversation with Ilene Serlin and E. Mark Stern. In K. Hays, (Ed.), Integrating exercise, sports, movement and mind: Therapeutic unity, 47-52. NY: Haworth Press. • Serlin, I. A. (1994). The Anne Sexton complex. In The Psychology of Existence: an Integrative Clinical Perspective, R. May, K. Schneider (Eds.). New York, NY: Harper & Row. • Serlin, I. (1990). Movement composition and the choreography of a verbal psychotherapy session. In A. Robbins, D.R. Johnson, P. Rodgers, I. Serlin, & A. Shields, The Psychoaesthetic Experience: An Approach to Depth-Oriented Treatment, 45-57. New York, NY: Human Sciences Press. • Serlin, I. (1986). Toward an erotic spirituality. In J. Marvin Spiegelman, Abraham Jacobson (Eds.). A Modern Jew in Search of a Soul, 231-244. Tempe, AZ: New Falcon Publications. ![]() Articles• Serlin, Ilene (2017). Working with Trauma in China: KinAesthetic Imagining. American Psychological Association Div. 56 Trauma Psychology Newsletter, 12, (2). • Serlin, Ilene (2017). Healing Intergenerational Trauma with Dance Movement Therapy. American Psychological Association Div. 56 Trauma Psychology Newsletter, 12, (1). • Kurter, F., Bicer, E., Aysoy, E. & Serlin, I. (2016). Life, death and transformation: Keep moving. Journal of Applied Arts & Health, 7 (1), 107-116. • Serlin, Ilene A. (2015). The Journey of the Wild Child. [Review of the book The Conditions of Love by Dale Kushner]. Journal of Transpersonal Psychology, 47 (2), 296-299. • Serlin, Ilene A. (2015). Dance, creative arts, and somatic therapies in the healing of trauma. [Review of the book The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma by Bessel A. van der Kolk]. PsycCRITIQUES, 60 (24). • Serlin, Ilene A. (2014). A therapist's response to Alan Waterman. American Psychologist, January, 2014 • Serlin, Ilene A. (2013). Its Time Has Come: Trauma and Rhythms of Recovery. [Review of the book Rhythms of Recovery: Trauma, Nature, and the Body by Leslie E. Korn]. PsycCRITIQUES, 58 (38). • Serlin, I. A. (2013). Does Zero Dark Thirty Promote the Use of Enhanced Interrogation Techniques? [Review of the movie Zero Dark Thirty]. PsycCRITIQUES, 58 (26). • Serlin, I. (2013). Maxine Sheets-Johnstone: The Primacy of Movement – Expanded Second Edition (Advances in Consciousness Research). [Review of the book by Maxine Sheets-Johnstone, 2013]. American Journal of Dance Therapy, 10. • Serlin, I. (2012, February 3). Remembering humanistic psychology in the age of brain research, digital age, and revival of attachment theory. Zur Institute newsletter. • Serlin, I. (2012, June 21). Sex, boundary violations, and psychiatry legends. [Review of the film A Dangerous Method]. San Francisco Psychologist, Spring, 2012. • Serlin, I. (2011, December 2). Elders & occupiers: 20th & 21st century movements meet. Careerwell recorded interviews with industry experts for professional development. • Serlin, I. (2011, October 7). Marriage guide for the quarter-life crisis [Review of the book Committed: A skeptic makes peace with marriage by Elizabeth Gilbert]. Marin County Psychological Association. • Serlin, I. (2011). Marriage guide for the quarter-life crisis [Review of the book Committed: A Skeptic Makes Peace With Marriage by Elizabeth Gilbert]. PsycCRITIQUES, 56 (28). • Serlin, I., & Hill, H. (Eds.) (2011, November). Psychotherapy and the Arts. An online newsletter of Div. 32 of APA. • Serlin, I. (2011). The history and future of humanistic psychology. Journal of Humanistic Psychology, 51, (4), 1-4. DOI: 10.1177/0022167811412600 • Serlin, I., & Kessler, C. (2011, Summer). Wellness fair: A kick-off partnership. Marin County Psychological Association: MCPA Newsletter, 8-9. • Serlin, I. (2010). Sisterhood: Bonds and transference [Review of the book You were always mom's favorite! Sisters in conversation throughout their lives by Deborah Tannen]. PsycCRITIQUES, 55, (28). • Serlin, I. (2010). Trauma and the arts [Review of the book Trauma, tragedy, therapy: The arts and human suffering]. PsycCRITIQUES, 55, (21). • Serlin, I. (2010, April). The first international conference on existential psychology Nanjing, China, April 2, 2010. Psychology Today. • Serlin, I. A. (2010). Working with trauma in Israel. The California Psychologist, September-October 2010, 12-15. • Serlin, I. A. (2009). A tribute to Rollo May and the arts. Journal of Humanistic Psychology, 49, (4), 486-489. doi: 10.1177/0022167809341747 • Serlin, I. A. (2009). Complementary and alternative therapy for psychologists. [Review of the book Complementary and alternative therapies research by Tiffany Field]. PsycCRITIQUES, 54, (30). • Serlin, I. (2009). How can mind/body medicine help cope with depression? [Review of the book Unstuck: Your guide to the seven-stage journey out of depression by J.S. Gordon]. PsycCRITIQUES, 54, (15). • Schneider, K. J., Galvin, J. & Serlin, I. (2009). Rollo May on existential psychotherapy. Journal of Humanistic Psychology, 49, (4), 419-434. • Serlin, I. A. (2009). Working with trauma in Israel: Lessons for America. National Psychologist, 18, (3), 12-15. • Serlin, I. A. (2008). How can the creative arts therapies be used for social action.[Review of the book Art therapy and social action by F.F. Kaplan]. PsycCRITIQUES, 53, (9). • Serlin, I. A. (2008, March). On PTSD [Letter to the editor]. American Psychological Association Monitor. • Serlin, I. A. (2008). Posttraumatic growth: Whole person approaches to working with trauma. The California Psychologist: Politics of Social Change, 31-32. • Serlin, I. A. (2008). Treating war trauma in Israel lessons for the United States. American Psychological Association Div. 56 Trauma Psychology Newsletter, 3, (3), 10-15. • Serlin, I. (2007). Arts therapies and trauma: An emerging field [Review of the book Expressive and creative arts methods for trauma survivors by Lois Carey]. PsycCRITIQUES, 52, (33). • Serlin, I. (2007). The embodied self: The new bridge between psychoanalysis and the moving body [Review of the book The Embodied Self: Movement and Psychoanalysis by Katya Bloom]. PsycCRITIQUES 52, (33). • Serlin, I. (2007). Whole person health care: Medicine of the person [Review of the book Medicine of the person: faith, science and values in health care provision by J. Cox, A.V. Campbell, & B. Fulford]. PsycCRITIQUES, 52, (39). • Serlin, I. A. (2006). Brokeback Mountain: A gay and a universal love story [Review of the motion picture Brokeback Mountain]. PsycCRITIQUES 51, (11). • Serlin, I. A. (2006, March 15). Dance/movement therapy: A new mind/body therapy [Review of the book An introduction to medical dance/movement therapy: Health care in motion]. PsycCRITIQUES, 51, (11). • Serlin, I. A. (2006). The use of the arts to work with trauma in Israel. The San Francisco Psychologist, September, 8-9. • Serlin, I. A. (2005). To dance is to love [Review of the motion picture Shall we dance?]. PsycCRITIQUES, 50, (20). • Serlin, I. A. (2005). Somatic psychology: Its relevance for psychology and psychotherapy [Review of the book Somatic psychology: body, mind and meaning]. PsycCRITIQUES, 50, (21). • Serlin, I. A. (2005). Express yourself! American Psychological Association: Monitor on Psychology, 36, (2). • Serlin, I. A. (2005, March 2). Energy psychology: An emerging form of integrative psychology [Review of the book CD-ROM energy psychology interactive]. PsycCRITIQUES, 50, (9). • Serlin, I. A. (2005). Year of the whole person. Psychotherapy Bulletin, 40 (1). • Serlin, I. A. (2002). Managed education. The California Psychologist, March/April, 26-27. • Serlin, I. A. (2002). Psychologists working with trauma: A humanistic approach. APA Monitor on Psychology, 33, (8). • Serlin, I. A. (2001). Wandering god: A study in nomadic spirituality. [Review of the book by Morris Berman]. Journal of Transpersonal Psychology, 33, (1), 72-74. • Serlin, I. A., Classen, C., Frances, B. & Angell, K. (2000). Symposium: support groups for women with breast cancer. The Arts in Psychotherapy, 27, (2), 123-138. laura-perls-and-gestalt-therapy.pdf• Serlin, I. A., (1996). Body as text: a psychological and cultural reading. The Arts in Psychotherapy, 23, (2), 141-148. • Serlin, I. A. (1996). Interview with Anna Halprin. American Journal of Dance Therapy, 18, (2), 115-126. • Serlin, I. (1996). Kinesthetic imagining. Journal of Humanistic Psychology, 36, (2), 25-33. • Serlin, I. A., (1996). The power of the whole: Exploring new ways to heal. Healthwise, Sutter-CHS Newsletter, 10, (3). • Serlin, I. A. (1995). Rollo may: a tribute. Tikkun, p. 6 January-February. • Serlin, I. (1994). Remembering Rollo May: An interview with Irving Yalom. The Humanistic Psychologist, 22, (3), 269-274. • Serlin, I. (1993). Root images of healing in dance therapy. American Journal of Dance Therapy, 15, (2), 65-76. • Serlin, I.A. (). Book review of K. Schneider, Horror and the Holy: Wisdom Teachings of the Monster Tale. 1993, Illinois: Open Court. • Serlin, I.A. (). Art Medicine: dance movement therapy for women with breast cancer. Consciousness Abstracts, p. 153. • Serlin, I. () In memory of Aniela Jaffe. Journal of Transpersonal Psychology. • Serlin, I. (1993, May/June). Jew-Bu. Common Boundary. 17-21. • Serlin, I.A. (1993, Jan/Feb). Book review of J. Beebe, Integrity in Depth. 1992, Texas A & M Press, in Association of Humanistic Psychology, p. 19. • Serlin, I. A. (1992, Summer). Tribute to Laura Perls. Journal of Humanistic Psychology, 32, (3), 57-66. • Serlin, I.A. (1992). A peace-making film. San Francisco Psychologist, 7-8. • Serlin, I. (1992). A dance therapist travels in Russia. American Journal of Dance Therapy, 14, (1), 5-10. • Serlin, I. (1990, Fall). Ju-Bu. Buddhist Peace Fellowship Newsletter. 36-37. • Serlin, I. (1989, Fall). The awakening: The lion's roar. Association for Transpersonal Psychology, 3-6. • Serlin, I. (1989). The last temptation of Christ. [Review of the motion picture The last temptation of Christ]. San Francisco Jung Institute Library Journal, 8 (3). • Serlin, I. (1989). A psycho-spiritual-body therapy approach to residential treatment of Catholic religious. The Journal of TransPersonal Psychology, 21, (2), 177-193. • Serlin, I. (1982). Research approaches to movement and personality. [Review of the book by Martha Davis (Ed), Arno Press, 1972.]. American Journal of Dance Therapy, 5, 70-72. • Serlin, I. Div 32 presidential talk: The history and future of humanistic psychology. • Serlin, L. (1977, Winter/Spring). Portrait of Karen: A Gestalt-Phenomenological Approach to Movement Therapy. Journal of Contemporary Psychotherapy, 8, (2), 145-153. • Serlin, I. (September, ND). To get rid of tension, anxiety and relax yourself... dance therapy. Vogue Magazine. ![]() Public Videos• The Importance of the Body and Women in Humanistic Psycholoogy. Dr. Serlin interviews Dr. Eleanor Criswell in San Rafael, CA, September 25, 2017 • KinAesthetic Imagining. A TED-style talk given by Dr. Serlin to the Society for Humanistic Psychology, San Francisco State University. March 19, 2016 • Dance Therapy and Trauma. Dr. Serlin interviews an Israeli war widow about her experience with dance therapy for healing trauma. Published on December 29, 2015 • Interview with Tom Greening. Dr. Serlin interviews Tom Greening at the APA conference in Toronto, Canada. August 8, 2015. • Post traumatic stress disorder in Israel. Dr. Serlin interviews Dr. Danny Brom, Director of Israel Center for the Treatment of Psychotrauma, Herzog Hospital, Jerusalem. May, 2015 • Creativity, Resilience, and Healing Trauma. Dr. Serlin interviews Dr. Eleanor Pardess at SELAH Israel Crisis Management Center, Tel-Aviv, Israel. May 18, 2015 • Creative Arts Therapy Approaches to Trauma. Dr. Serlin discusses the use of creative arts therapies for healing trauma. Published December 29, 2015 • Poetic Movement. Dr. Serlin discusses movement therapy at the Poetics of Aging conference in San Francisco, CA. November 17, 2011 • Welcome from Ilene A. Serlin. Dr. Serlin welcomes you to her practice and gives a little information about herself. Published December 21, 2015. • Movement Choir. Dr. Serlin co-leads the movement choir at the opening session of the 2014 American Psychological Association Convention in Washington, DC. August 7, 2014. • How to Live Well. Dr. Serlin interviews Ingrid Kepler May in Berkeley, CA. February 8, 2014. ![]() Other Authors• Eva Bojner Horwitz (2013). Whole person healthcare: volume 3, The arts and health. In Body, Movement and Dance in Psychotherapy: An International Journal for Theory, Research and Practice, 8:3, 201-206. • AgeSong Institute (2012). Finding Meaning in a Chaotic World through Dance. In AgeSong Today: AgeSong Institute & Bay Area Elder Communities Online Journal, November 20, 2012. • Israeli clinical psychologist presents innovative approaches of compassion-focused support of caregivers. (2011). In American Psychological Association Annual Convention. Tel Aviv: Israel. • Israeli psychologist presents new approach for caregivers. (2011, September 9). Cleveland Jewish News. • Jaleh. (2011, Feb. 2). The benefits of dance therapy: An interview with psychologist Ilene Serlin. Message posted to http://voices.yahoo.com/the-benefits-dance-therapy-7630518.html?cat=5 • Leichman, A. K. (2011, September, 12). Teaching caregivers how to overcome second-hand trauma. Israel21c Innovation News Service. • McInerney, R.G. (2011). A transcontinental journey brings transcendental understanding. Janus Head, 12, (1), 314-319. • Psychotherapy and the Arts, November 2011. • Shafir, T. (2011). Reflections on Dr. Ilene Serlin's post conference. Keeping in Touch: the United States Association for Body Psychotherapy, 42. • Harvey, R. (2009). Review of Whole Person Healthcare, Volumes 1, 2, & 3 (2007). Psychotherapy Theory, Research, Practice, Training, 46, (2). 272-273. • Gordon, S. (2008). Book review: Whole Person Healthcare Vol I-III. The Humanistic Psychologist, 36, 357-373. DOI: 10. 1080/08873260802560844 • Montesinos, L. (2008). Building the future, revisiting the origin is a truly integrative approach to health: A review of Whole Person Healthcare by Ilene Serlin. PsycCritiques, 53, (23). • Race for the Cure. (2003, September 8). San Francisco Chronicle, A, p. 15. • Resnick, S., Warmoth, A., & Serlin, I. A., (2001). The contributions of humanistic psychology to positive psychology. Journal of Humanistic Psychology. Vol. 41 No. 1, Winter. 73-101. • Hulley, S. (1999, June). Creativity in Marin psychologists: Role of psychology and the arts in medical settings: Interview with Ilene Serlin, Ph.D.. Marin County Psychological Association Newsletter. • Stern, E. M. (1998). The dialogue of movement: An interview/conversation with Ilene Serlin and E. Mark Stern. Psychotherapy Patient, 10 (3/4). • Ganahl, J. (1995, October 31). Breast cancer patients learn to love themselves again. 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In this article, Dr. Serlin and a group of students demonstrate the use of a new method of group work in dance movement therapy using the existential/depth approach. ![]() The benefits of this approach are seen in how it illuminates group process and the way in which it helped participants understand and cope with a subsequent earthquake in Turkey. Read Life, death and transformation: Keep moving Dr. Serlin reviews the new book by Bessel A. van der Kolk, The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma ![]() Eva Bojner Horowitz reviews Whole Person Healthcare, Volume 3 edited by Dr. Serlin, in Body, Movement and Dance in Psychotherapy: An International Journal for Theory, Research and Practice. ![]() Dr. Serlin contributed a chapter to the newly released book Grief and the Expressive Arts. ![]() Dr. Serlin is a contributor to the recently published fourth edition of the Corsini Encyclopedia of Psychology. ![]() Dr. Serlin hosts a blog at Psychology Today online. ![]() Dr. Serlin contributed a chapter to the book Existential Psychology East-West. ![]() Read a review of the book Dr. Serlin contributed a chapter to the book Healing Stories. ![]() Read a review of the book Dr. Serlin has reviewed the book Art Therapy and Social Action by Frances F. Kaplan. ![]() Dr. Serlin is featured in the September-October 2008 California Psychologist issue on "Politics of Social Change". ![]() Read her article: Posttraumatic Growth: Whole Person Approaches to Working with Trauma Dr. Serlin is a contributor to the compilation "Women of Vision" published by Springer. ![]() Read her chapter: Dancing Women's Freedom: The Story of Isadora Duncan Dr. Serlin has a chapter in the book Narrative Identities. ![]() Read her chapter: Dancing Stories Dr. Serlin is guest editor of the November-December 2007 California Psychologist issue on "Psychology and the Arts". ![]() Read her article: The Arts Therapies: Whole Person Integrative Approaches to Healthcare ![]() Read Psychological Effects of the Virtual Media Coverage of the Iraq War, Dr. Serlin's chapter in the book Collateral Damage ![]() Read The Anne Sexton complex, Dr. Serlin's contribution to the book The Psychology of Existence: an Integrative Clinical Perspective ![]() Read Humanistic psychology and women: A critical-historical perspective, Dr. Serlin's contribution to the book Handbook of Humanistic Psychology ![]() Read Root Images of Healing in Dance Therapy, an article by Dr. Serlin in American Journal of Dance Therapy |
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