Dance Movement Psychotherapy MPhil

**This PhD will allow you to pursue research in dance movement psychotherapy.**<br/><br/>For the MPhil/PhD in Dance Movement Psychotherapy, your research should usually combine a written thesis with practice-based elements.<br/><br/>**Supervision**<br/>Youll have a primary supervisor in dance movement psychotherapy, and – depending on the focus of your research – you may have a second supervisor in another relevant department, for example Art, Educational Studies, Psychology, or Sociology.<br/><br/>Youll meet your supervisors regularly for discussion and guidance, and may also present your work in various research student groups and/or forums. To help you settle into the research community at Goldsmiths, youll attend the Goldsmiths Research Methods Training Course. <br/><br/>**Areas of research**<br/>Research supervision is currently available in the following areas:<br/><br/><br/>- Dance movement psychotherapy theory, practice and research<br/><br/><br/>- Cross-cultural issues, intersectionality and diversity practice as research<br/><br/><br/>- Group work, community practice and working with specialist populations<br/><br/><br/>- History and development of the profession in the UK and internationally<br/><br/><br/>- Occupational choice, career development and role change of art therapists and art therapy trainees<br/><br/><br/>- Embodied intersubjectivity and kinaesthetic empathy<br/><br/><br/>- Critical disability studies<br/><br/><br/>- Mental health, dementia, mothers and babies, working with children, forensics<br/><br/><br/>- Eco-feminist, phenomenological, new materialist and post-humanist research methods<br/><br/><br/>- Eco-psychology and the environmental body<br/>