Books and Chapters

Book Publications

2021: The Art and Science of Embodied Research Design

2019: The Routledge International Handbook of Embodied Perspectives in Psychotherapy

Selected Publications for download:

Somatic Intelligence: Toward a New Competency for the Therapist

2025.somatic_intelligence.toward_a_new_competence.pd

Toward a Somatically-informed Paradigm in Research

2019. toward_a_somatically-informed_paradigm_in_research._w.ref.jft.pdf

Is Intuition Embodied?

2014.tantia._is_intuition_embodied.final.pdf

Mindfulness and Dance Therapy for Healing Trauma

Tantia.2013.mindfulness.healing.trauma.ch6.pdf

https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Jennifer_Tantia

Peer Reviewed Articles and Chapters

Tantia, J.F. (2025). Somatic Intelligence: Toward a New Competency for the Therapist. In H. Grassman, M. Stuppigia and S. Porges (Eds). The Science of Embodiment: Trauma, Body and Relationship. 

Tantia, J.F. (2021). Embodied DataIn J. Tantia (Ed.). The Art and Science of Embodied Resarch Design: Concepts, Methods and Cases. Routledge.

Tantia, J.F. (2019). Toward a Somatically-informed Paradigm in Embodied Research. International Body Psychotherapy Journal, 18(2-3). 134-145.

Tantia, J., and Kawano, T. (2018). Moving the data: Embodied approaches for data collection and analysis in dance/movement therapy research. In R. Cruz, C. Berrol, (Eds.) Dance/movement therapists in action: A working guide to research options. (3rd Ed). Springfield, IL: Charles C. Thomas.

Cruz, R. F. & Tantia, J.F. (2016). Reading and evaluating qualitative research. American Journal of Dance Therapy, 38(69). DOI 10.1007/s10465-016-9219-z
http://link.springer.com/ article/10.1007/s10465-016- 9219-z

Tantia, J.F. (2015). The interface between somatic psychotherapy and dance/movement therapy: A critical analysis. Body, Movement and Dance in Psychotherapy, DOI: 10.1080/17432979.2015.1109549

Tantia, J. F. (2015) Guest EditorInternational Body Psychotherapy Journal: Special Research Issue, 14(1).

Tantia, J. F. (2014). Is Intuition Embodied? A phenomenological study of clinical intuition in psychotherapy practice. Body, movement and Dance in Psychotherapy 9(4), pp . 211-223. http://www.tandfonline.com/eprint/  or:   http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.1080/17432979.2014.931888

Tantia, J.F. (2014). Body-focused interviewing: Corporeal experience in phenomenological inquiry. Sage Research Methods Cases. London: United Kingdom.  http://srmo.sagepub.com/view/methods-case-studies-2014/n228.xml

Tantia, J.F. (2013). Mindfulness and Dance/movement Therapy for Treating Trauma, in L. Rappaport, (Ed.), Mindfulness and the Arts Therapies, London: Jessica Kingsley Publications.  

Tantia, J.F. (2012). Authentic Movement and the Autonomic Nervous System: A preliminary investigation. American Journal of Dance Therapy, 34(1), 53-73.

Tantia, J.F. (2012). Do Babies Remember Trauma? Conference Review. APPPAH Newsletter, Winter, 2011/2012, p. 10.

Tantia, J.F. (2011). Viva las VagusThe Neurophysiology of Embodied Intuition, The USA Body Psychotherapy Journal, 10(1), 10-23. http://www.ibpj.org/issues/archive/Vol10No1%20USABP%20Journal%202011.pdf