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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.

08/10/2025

VACANCY FOR AN EDITORIAL ASSISTANT FOR THE SUCCESSFUL
PEER REVIEWED INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL ‘BODY, MOVEMENT
AND DANCE IN PSYCHOTHERAPY’
We have the above vacancy (4-5 hours per week) with a start date
of 1 December 2025.

If you are interested to read articles before they are published and
are willing to work with Taylor and Francis publishers, authors and
editors, and are willing to commit for a minimum of three years,
please make contact as soon as possible.
For further details and an application form email
[email protected]
Closing date 27 October 2025
Interviews commence week beginning 10 November 2025

06/10/2025

Free to download from our Autumn Issue 2025!

Trauma-informed dance/movement and expressive arts methods for mental health professionals: a pilot study
Aylin Aydınoğlu, Asude Özdemir & Ahmet Tamer Aker

This pilot study examined the impact of a trauma-informed expressive arts-based intervention, incorporating elements from dance/movement therapy (DMT), on secondary traumatic stress, interoceptive ...

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
by
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.

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