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Body, Movement and Dance in Psychotherapy

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.

30/06/2025

Announcing our New Researcher Award winning article!

Free to download

Safe space in dance therapy – a phenomenological inquiry
Meri Erkkilä & Rosemarie Samaritter

A space, where the client feels safe, is necessary for therapeutic process. Its importance seems to be implicitly understood and agreed upon across different schools of psychotherapy. However, what...

26/03/2025

REMINDER

Deadline for completed manuscripts:
12th MAY

Special issue on Body Politics in Dance Movement Psychotherapy and Body Psychotherapy.
Guest editor: Sara 'Zora' Boas

The special issue will explore how embodied psychotherapies can reveal the workings of power in, on, and through the body.

Explore how embodied psychotherapies can reveal the workings of power in, on, and through the body.

19/02/2025

We were saddened to hear of Berit Heir Bunkan's death.

Berit Heir Bunkan had a remarkable career developing Psychomotor Physiotherapy. She was honoured by His Majesty, the King of Norway, in 2005 when he made her a dame of The Royal Norwegian Order of Saint Olav. Berit wrote 23 books. Berit was a member of EABP for several years and she gave many workshops and courses in many European countries. Due to her long and outstanding work within the field of body psychotherapy, both nationally and internationally, she was honored at the EABP congress in Berlin 2018.

In June 2023, Berit was 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...

10/02/2025

Our Spring issue is out now!

The free download this issue discusses DMT with adolescents victims of trauma in Mumbai, India.

A dance movement therapy intervention with adolescent victims of trauma in Mumbai
Cicilia Chettiar &Cristabelle Mascarenhas
Pages 40-55 | Received 25 Apr 2024, Accepted 12 Sep 2024, Published online: 08 Oct 2024
Cite this article

This study assessed the impact of a DMT intervention in reducing aggression, depression, anxiety and increasing levels of self-esteem in adolescents who experienced trauma. Sixty females between th...

31/01/2025

Read for free Professor Helen Payne's article on the development of dance movement psychotherapy as a profession in the UK

This article documents the lived experience of a UK pathfinder of dance movement psychotherapy in the UK. It narrates the history of the beginning of the professional association in the field of da...

09/12/2024

Our free Winter download!

A mover’s practice of transition in authentic movement: an embodied non-dual lived experience
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Christina Bracegirdle

This paper intends to present the personal, lived experiences of embodiment and describe how transition in AM has enlarged my perception of intersubjectivity. We all transition throughout different...

21/10/2024

SPECIAL ISSUE CALL EXTENDED until
12th MAY 2025

Special issue on Body Politics in Dance Movement Psychotherapy and Body Psychotherapy.
Guest editor: Sara 'Zora' Boas

Deadline for completed manuscripts: 12th MAY
Issue planned for Winter 2025.

The special issue will explore how embodied psychotherapies can reveal the workings of power in, on, and through the body.

See the Call for Papers here

Explore how embodied psychotherapies can reveal the workings of power in, on, and through the body.

15/08/2024

Autumn issue out now!

Great articles from all over the world - China, India, South Africa, South Korea and the UK.

Free to download this issue:
Women of colour and somatic movement: an emerging narrative
Fae Wolfe

Throughout the 20th century, somatic and dance-making pioneers have given rise to narratives of body. The dominant voice, however, within somatic literature, has historically emphasised a Eurocentr...

19/06/2024

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...

26/02/2024

Free downloads!

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...

02/02/2024

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.

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