On-going Research

Can psychological trauma be fully healed? A new conceptualization and treatment (art therapy & hyperbaric oxygen treatment) integrating brain, body and mind in child sexual abuse survivors.

Rachel Lev-Wiesel & Shai Efrati (Emili Sagol Center, University of Haifa)

Emotion Regulation through Movement: Unique Sets of Movement Characteristics are Associated with and Enhance Basic Emotions
Tal Shafir, Rachelle P. Tsachor, and Kathleen B. Welch

Multitask Learning for Laban Movement Analysis
Ran Bernstein (Department of Computer Science, Technion I.I.T, Haifa, Israel), Tal Shafir (The Graduate School of Creative Arts Therapies, University of Haifa), Rachelle P. Tsachor (School of Theatre & Music, The University of Illinois at Chicago), Assaf Schuster (Department of Computer Science, Technion I.I.T, Haifa, Israel), Karen Studd (School of Dance, George Mason University)

Traumatic Event: Body-Verbal Narratives Interplay- Towards a Theoretical Model
Rachel Lev- Wiesel, Dita Federman and Galit Zana  (Emili Sagol Center, University of Haifa)

Movement Patterns in Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) & Major Depressive Disorder
Rachel Lev-Wiesel, Dita Federman, Avital Furliger  (Emili Sagol Center, University of Haifa)

Sharing and Narrating Autobiographical Memories in Movement and Art: A Comparison Analysis
Dita Federman, Limor Goldinger  (Emili Sagol Center, University of Haifa)

The Relations between Personality Traits and Movement Patterns (Analyzed by LMA)
Dita Federman, Tal Shafir, Serraro Chen  (Emili Sagol Center, University of Haifa)

Where Body Meets Mind: Exploring Links between Parental Mentalizing and Affect Regulation and their Impact on Parent-Infant Interaction
Rachel Lev-Wiesel, Dita Federman, Shai Danna and Einav Afek  (Emili Sagol Center, University of Haifa)