It is the only scholarly journal wholly dedicated to the growing fields of body (somatic) psychotherapy and dance movement therapy.
Body, Movement and Dance in Psychotherapy is an international, peer-reviewed journal exploring the relationship between body and mind and focusing on the significance of the body and movement in the therapeutic setting. The body is increasingly being recognized as a vehicle for expression, insight and change. The journal encourages broad and in-depth discussion of issues relating to research activ
ities, theory, clinical practice, professional development and personal reflections. Body Psychotherapy and Dance Movement Therapy as these areas relate to the following:
Children and adolescents; Families; Couples; Touch; Trauma; Assessment, Observation and evaluation; Research; Body image and identity; Training and supervision; The limits and opportunities of the body; The sacred and the body; Psychosomatics; Mind-body interrelationship; The Arts.
Summer issue free download!
An exploration of the relationship between the arts, awareness of nature and dance movement psychotherapy
Jill Bunce & Christina Gougouli
The aim of this article is to underline the importance of metaphors, imagination, and symbolism, and our connection to the natural environment through dance movement psychotherapy. In today’s socie...
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The role and value of pleasure in dance/movement therapy experience: beyond the limits of science
Frederic Lowen
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/17432979.2023.2270014
Body psychotherapy training at university level – piloting a novel integrated master’s programme
Frank Röhricht, H. Ozden Bademci, Amara Eckert, Herbert Grassmann, Biljana Jokić, Nina Papadopoulos, Ulrich Sollmann & Maurizio Stupiggia
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/17432979.2023.2260445
Over the course of the last decade a growing number of clinical trials have been conducted to evaluate and demonstrate the efficacy and clinical utility of body psychotherapy for various mental hea...
New Researcher Award 2024 Call for Papers!
Calling all students!
Submission deadline for the 2024 Award is 29th March 2024
Body, Movement and Dance in Psychotherapy awards a New Researcher Prize each year. The winning entry will receive one year's free online subscription post qualification to the journal, £150 worth of Routledge book vouchers and a 30% reduction on Routledge books following publication of the prize winning article.
We look forward to receiving student research papers in the fields of dance movement psychotherapy, body psychotherapy, somatic psychology and related fields to submit a paper. Articles should be maximum 6000 words including abstract, references, tables and figures.
For more information, please contact the journal directly [email protected].
Explore the article collection: Body, Movement and Dance in Psychotherapy New Researcher Award. Published in Body, Movement and Dance in Psychotherapy.
We have 3 great articles FREE to download from our recent Ecopsychotherapy and dance movement psychotherapy special issue!
Nature connectedness and the Discipline of Authentic Movement
Helen Payne
https://doi.org/10.1080/17432979.2023.2205921
Cry: the vitalising intelligence in our sounding
Roz Carroll
https://doi.org/10.1080/17432979.2023.2242457
Precarity, affect, and the moving body
Amanda Light
https://doi.org/10.1080/17432979.2023.2251043
https://www.tandfonline.com/toc/tbmd20/current
Ecopsychotherapy, environmental movement and the imperative of embodied practice with the earth in mind. Volume 18, Issue 4 of Body, Movement and Dance in Psychotherapy
Congratulations to Camilla Day, our New Researcher Award winner 2023!
Access the winning article for free!
Raving as healing: an autoethnographic study into how raving can inform the use of dance movement psychotherapy in clinical work with substance abusers in recovery
Body, Movement and Dance in Psychotherapy, Volume 18, 2023 - Issue 3
The topic of raving has not yet been addressed in dance/movement psychotherapy (DMP) literature, despite being a meaningful activity shown to facilitate personal transformation. Whilst studies on r...
Published in Body, Movement and Dance in Psychotherapy: An International Journal for Theory, Research and Practice (Vol. 18, No. 4, 2023)
Announcing our Ecopsychotherapy Special Issue!
Ecopsychotherapy, environmental movement and the imperative of embodied practice with the earth in mind,
Guest edited by Dr Caroline Frizell
Including articles by Roz Carrol, Helen Payne, Amanda Light, Becca Parkinson, Geoffery Unkovich and Céline Butté
Download the editorial for free now:
Embodied practice and research with the earth in mind
Published in Body, Movement and Dance in Psychotherapy: An International Journal for Theory, Research and Practice (Vol. 18, No. 4, 2023)
New! Michel Heller is interviewed by Helen Payne on body psychotherapy and research
Michel Heller is a psychologist and psychotherapist based in Lausanne, Switzerland. In Geneva, he studied developmental psychology with Jean Piaget’s team, a...
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Diversity and culture as psychophysiological phenomena and states of being
Tom Warnecke
This article aims to explore psychophysiological phenomena and dynamics associated with diversity and culture in the therapeutic relationship. Clients/patients experiences of feeling culturally met...
Autumn issue free download!
Reflections on Veronica Sherborne and the practical application of the Sherborne Developmental Movement
Zillah Harford
This personal reflection explores the life and work of Veronica Sherborne. It follows her journey from a student of physical education and dance at Bedford College in the 1940s to senior lecturer i...
Autumn issue 2023 out now!
https://www.tandfonline.com/toc/tbmd20/current
Articles on 'Raving as healing for substance abusers', psychomotor therapy for children, 'open studio in dance movement therapy', dance movement therapy for depression and Reflections on Veronica Sherborne,
Volume 18, Issue 3 of Body, Movement and Dance in Psychotherapy
The editors of the International Journal of Body, Movement and Dance in Psychotherapy are delighted to announce our latest video interview!
Berit Heir Bunkan is interviewed by Courtenay Young
Born in 1929, and still actively teaching and treating patients, Berit Heir Bunkan has had a remarkable career. She started with doing clinical work in unive...
Download our most recent OpenAccess article for free!
Nature connectedness and the Discipline of Authentic Movement
Helen Payne
This article follows a path linking the discipline of authentic movement with Nature connectedness. This deep empathic practice seeks to change empathy from the interpersonal solely to an interspec...
Summer issue 2023 is now online!
A proposal for emotional intelligence development through dance movement therapy
Andrea Ortuño-Ibarra & Rosa-María Rodríguez-Jiménez
Dance movement therapy with children who have undergone sexual trauma
Einat Shuper Engelhard
Stirring up health: polyvagal theory and the dance of mismatch in multi-generational trauma healing
Dee Wagner & Orit Sônia Waisman
The importance of psychological flow in a creative, embodied and enactive psychological therapy approach
(Arts for the Blues)
Ailsa Parsons, Linda Dubrow-Marshall, Richard Turner, Scott Thurston, Jennifer Starkey, Joanna Omylinska-Thurston & Vicky Karkou
Volume 18, Issue 2 of Body, Movement and Dance in Psychotherapy
Special issue:
Ecopsychotherapy, environmental movement and the imperative of embodied practice with the earth in mind
Submission deadline extended until 12th May
Please do let us know if you are intending to submit an article!
Guest editor: Dr. Caroline Frizell, Goldsmiths University of London
https://think.taylorandfrancis.com/special_issues/body-movement-dance-psychotherapy/
We are delighted to announce our new video interview!
Dr. Judyth Weaver is interviewed by journal Associate Editor, Dr. Nancy Eichhorn.
Dr. Judyth Weaver is the creator and founding chair of the Santa Barbara Graduate Institute Ph.D. Program in Somatic Psychology. She taught at the California...
Spring issue FREE Download!
Holistic movement activities with refugee families: the importance of attachment processes
Louise Gottlob Baumgarten, Maise Johansen & Helle Winther
This article focuses on how holistic movement activities can support essential attachment processes and touching, loving and joyful moments between children and parents in refugee families. The res...
Don't miss the new interview!
Dr. Halko Weiss Halko Weiss, co-founder of the Hakomi Institute, is interviewed by journal co-editor, Tom Warnecke.
In this 40 minute interview, Halko Weiss, co-founder of the Hakomi Institute, is interviewed by journal co-editor, Tom Warnecke.The video is introduced by Pr...
FREE ARTICLE from the WINTER issue
Dynamic countertransference
by Dimitrios Zachos & Sara Idzig
This article suggests a new concept, namely Dynamic Countertransference, which focuses on therapist’s movement qualities/Laban’s Efforts as a countertransferential response to client unconscious ma...
New Call for Papers for a Special Issue on
Ecopsychotherapy, environmental movement and the imperative of embodied practice with the earth in mind
Guest editor: Dr. Caroline Frizell, Goldsmiths University of London
https://think.taylorandfrancis.com/special_issues/body-movement-dance-psychotherapy/
Submission deadline 31st March 2023
This special issue will celebrate research and practice that brings moving bodies to the foreground and combines this with a commitment to environmental justice.
This special issue will celebrate research and practice that is therapeutically-informed and brings environmental justice to the foreground through the material.
New Researcher Award article submission deadline, 30th December 2022
https://www.tandfonline.com/journals/tbmd20/collections/best-paper-prize-body-movement-dance
We continue to welcome research articles from New Researchers. Our next deadline is Friday 30th December 2022. It provides a wonderful opportunity for a student or recent graduate to publish their dissertation, which must be written up as a journal article. Articles must be no more than 6000 words including references, abstracts, tables, appendices etc. They must also follow the standard journal format, see Instructions for Authors webpage for detailed instructions.
The winning entry will receive one year's free online subscription post qualification to the journal, £150 worth of Routledge book vouchers and a 30% reduction on Routledge books following publication of the prize winning article.
The Editorial Board of Body, Movement and Dance in Psychotherapy (BMDP) encourages new researchers in the fields of dance movement psychotherapy, body psychotherapy, somatic psychology and related fields to submit a paper.
Explore the article collection: Body, Movement and Dance in Psychotherapy New Researcher Award. Published in Body, Movement and Dance in Psychotherapy.
The EADMT conference this weekend in Potsdam promises to be a marvellous event! We are delighted to support the conference and have made articles written by conference presenters free to download until the end of September. Go to the journal website to browse and download the articles.
Volume 17, Issue 3 of Body, Movement and Dance in Psychotherapy
We are pleased to announce that we have a new Youtube channel dedicated to sharing a series of interviews with esteemed professional members, pioneers and 'elders' in the fields of dance movement psychotherapy, body psychotherapy and somatic psychology.
In this 30 minute interview, Sharon Chailklin is interviewed by old friend and long time collaborator Hilda Wengrower. The video is introduced by Professor Helen Payne, Editor-in-Chief of the International Journal of Body, Movement and Dance in Psychotherapy.
In this 30 minute interview, Sharon Chailklin is interviewed by old friend and long time collaborator Hilda Wengrower. The video is introduced by Professor H...
Autumn issue is out now!
https://www.tandfonline.com/toc/tbmd20/current
Our New Researcher Award winning article is in this issue and available to download for free
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/17432979.2021.1982770
Congratulations to our New Researcher Award 2022 winners,
Clara Marcela Castro Jaramillo &Heidrun Panhofer for their article
Dance movement therapy techniques to promote kinaesthetic empathy for couples: ‘I have to dance seriously with you’
Download it here!
https://doi.org/10.1080/17432979.2021.1982770
Did you see the three articles free to download in our Summer Issue?
https://www.tandfonline.com/toc/tbmd20/current
History and the psychoanalytic foundations of the Kestenberg Movement Profile
by Janka Kormos
Somatic interventions therapists use when treating women presenting with sexual assault trauma involving tonic immobility
Janine Stirling & Katrina Andrews
Dance movement therapy for depressed clients: Profiles of the level and changes in depression
Kaisa Kella, Katriina Hyvönen, Päivi Pylvänäinen & Joona Muotka
Volume 17, Issue 2 of Body, Movement and Dance in Psychotherapy
Still free to download!
Tosha Lanette Jorden's article, which features in our Special Issue on Power, Privilege and Difference in Embodied Psychotherapies
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/17432979.2021.1896579
This theoretical paper examines historical traumas and the impact they have on the mental health fields when working within similarities and across difference. This paper also examines racist ideol...
Special issue on Power, privilege and difference in embodied psychotherapies
edited by Dr. Rae Johnson
Is available now
(2022). Spring special issue: power, privilege, and difference in embodied psychotherapies. Body, Movement and Dance in Psychotherapy: Vol. 17, Power, privilege and difference in embodied psychotherapies, pp. 1-3.
David Boadella Obituary
by Tom Warnecke
Free to download
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/17432979.2022.2032643
(2022). David Boadella 1931–2021 “Etwas geht immer weiter” (something will always go on and on). Body, Movement and Dance in Psychotherapy. Ahead of Print.
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