Body, Movement and Dance in Psychotherapy New Researcher Award
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.
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.
Body, Movement and Dance in Psychotherapy is the only international peer-reviewed journal focusing on the role of the body in its relationship with the mind in psychotherapy. It combines two close but distinctly different fields in inter and intra - disciplinary dialogue, namely dance movement psychotherapy and body psychotherapy.
It publishes high quality research, theory and evidence-based clinical practice that follow the development of a wide range of methodologies, as well as new theoretical insights into the field of dance movement psychotherapy and body psychotherapy.
Winning author 2023: Camilla Day, 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.
You can browse the winning articles below.
The editorial board would like to extend their thanks and appreciation to the adjudicators of the NRA since 2016:
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Dr Einat Shuper Engelhard - University of Haifa, Israel & Kibbutzim College of Education, Israel
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Dr. Rae Johnson - Pacifica Graduate Institute, California, USA
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Professor Vicky Karkou, PhD - Edge Hill University, UK
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Dr. Rubens Kignel - Brazilian Association of Psychotherapy, Brazil
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Sandra Kay Lauffenburger - Australian Somatic Psychotherapy Association, Australia
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Professor Helen Payne - University of Hertfordshire, UK
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Dr. Jennifer Tantia - American Dance Therapy Association, USA
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Dr. Orit Sonia Waisman - David Yellin College, Jerusalem
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Tom Warnecke - Psychotherapist and Consultancy at Integral body and Re-Vision Centre for Integrative Psychosynthesis, UK
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Gill Westland - Cambridge Body Psychotherapy Centre, UK