- Removing the threat of exclusion in schools: creating inclusive educational environments Frizell, Caroline and Woodger, David. 2019. Removing the threat of exclusion in schools: creating inclusive educational environments. Youth and Policy, pp. 1-8. ISSN 0262-9798
- Dancing Differently Frizell, Caroline. 2018. Dancing Differently. Journal of the West Country Association for Counselling, 2, pp. 17-19.
- Book Review. Working Across Modalities in the Arts Therapies: Creative Collaborations. Edited by Tasha Colbert and Cornelia Bent Frizell, Caroline. 2018. Book Review. Working Across Modalities in the Arts Therapies: Creative Collaborations. Edited by Tasha Colbert and Cornelia Bent. ATOL: Art Therapy Online, 9(1), ISSN 2044-7221
- Careers in art therapy: 'The ability to listen is crucial' Shearman, Sarah and Frizell, Caroline. 2017. Careers in art therapy: 'The ability to listen is crucial'. The Guardian,
- Book review: Other than Mother: Choosing childlessness with Global Consequences Frizell, Caroline. 2017. Book review: Other than Mother: Choosing childlessness with Global Consequences. Transformations: The Journal for Psychotherapists and Counsellors for Social Responsibility, 2017(Summer),
- Decoding the Body's message Frizell, Caroline. 2016. Decoding the Body's message. Therapy Today, 27(3), p. 42. ISSN 1748-7846
- Hope for the Future: a review of the Goldsmiths DMP MA Final Year Students’ End of Year Showcase June 2014 Frizell, Caroline. 2014. Hope for the Future: a review of the Goldsmiths DMP MA Final Year Students’ End of Year Showcase June 2014. E-motion: the Journal for the Association for Dance Movement Psychotherapy, XXIV(2), p. 24.
- Body sense and Trauma Frizell, Caroline. 2014. Body sense and Trauma. Therapy Today, 25(7), p. 45. ISSN 1748-7846
- 'Work-life' Counsellors for Social Responsibility : Summer 2014; pp. 27-30 Frizell, Caroline. 2014. 'Work-life' Counsellors for Social Responsibility : Summer 2014; pp. 27-30. Transformations: The Journal for Psychotherapists and Counsellors for Social Responsibility, 2014(Summer), pp. 27-30.
- Discovering the Language of the Ecological Body Frizell, Caroline. 2014. Discovering the Language of the Ecological Body. Self & Society: an International Journal for Humanistic Psychology, 41(4), pp. 15-21. ISSN 0306-0497
- Whole-earth Healing Frizell, Caroline. 2013. Whole-earth Healing. Therapy Today, 24(4), pp. 44-45. ISSN 1748-7846
- A Journey of Becoming Frizell, Caroline. 2013. A Journey of Becoming. E-motion the journal for the Association for Dance Movement Psychotherapy, XXIII(2), pp. 11-12.
- Embodiment and the Supervisory Task Frizell, Caroline. 2012. Embodiment and the Supervisory Task. Body, Movement and Dance in Psychotherapy: An International Journal for Theory, Research and Practice, 7(4), pp. 293-304. ISSN 1743-2979
- Call of the wild Frizell, Caroline. 2012. Call of the wild. Therapy Today, 23(6), p. 46. ISSN 1748-7846
- The Dance Beneath the Words: listening, attuning and shaping to embodied expression towards meaningful dialogue Frizell, Caroline. 2012. The Dance Beneath the Words: listening, attuning and shaping to embodied expression towards meaningful dialogue. Transformations: The Journal for Psychotherapists and Counsellors for Social Responsibility, 2012(Summer), pp. 17-18.
Dr Caroline Frizell
Dance Movement Psychotherapy, ecopsychology, new materialism, posthuman subjectivity, critical disability studies.
Staff details
Position
Admissions Tutor MA Dance Movement Psychotherapy
Department
Social, Therapeutic and Community Studies
c.frizell (@gold.ac.uk)
Dr Caroline Frizell is a research active senior lecturer in Dance Movement Psychotherapy (DMP) at Goldsmiths, where she has worked since since 2007. She served as Programme Convenor for the MA DMP from 2010-2019 and is now Admissions Tutor. Caroline is a UKCP therapist and supervisor, with a diploma in supervision from the Society of Analytical Psychology (SAP). Caroline's PhD by publication addressed the intersections of DMP, ecopsychotherapy and critical disability studies. For over two decades, Caroline has been an active member of ADMP UK and is currently on the UKCP accreditation committee. She previously served as editor for the quarterly journal, as a member of the Professional Development Committee, the UKCP working group and the Education and Training Committee. Caroline is also on the editorial and advisory board of the journal ‘Dance Movement and Spiritualities’ and Goldsmiths’ representative for the European Consortium for Arts Therapies Education (ECArTE).
Academic qualifications
- PhD
- Diploma in Supervision: Society of Analytical Psychology
- MA in Dance Movement Psychotherapy
- UKCP Registered Dance Movement Psychotherapist
Research interests
Caroline has engaged with new materialist, posthuman lenses to develop a thematic focus on posthuman subjectivity. Her research inquiries explore the concept of posthuman subjectivity as it manifests in transdisciplinary practices of dance as a participatory process, ecopsychology as a practice that locates the human subject within a wider ecology and, critical disability studies as a portal to non-binary practice. These diffractive intersections unveil power-laden, discourses that have subordinated matters of the body, privileging particular bodies over others. The creation of assemblages that explore the body as process, the environmentally contextualised human subject and the (dis)abled body, problematises notions of the human subject and reaches towards posthuman subjectivity. Caroline's practice-led inquiry employs diffractive analysis in challenging binary discourses, towards considering matters that have been made to matter less, hold the potential for redefining the ways in which identities are organised and subjectivities conceived and performed. Caroline's practice-led research moves transversally across disciplines and genres, troubling the privileging of knowledge as it manifests in the material properties of dance, text, photography and film and with an emphasis on transdisciplinarity. In moving towards the posthuman dancing subject, Caroline considers the transdisciplinary potential of diffracting across dance movement psychotherapy (DMP), ecopsychotherapy and critical disability studies, embedding the notion of the posthuman subject into practice in a way that is emancipatory and decolonising.
Featured publications
2020:
Learning disability imagined differently: an evaluation of interviews with parents about discovering that their child has Down’s Syndrome
This article presents a research project using Interpretive Phenomenological Analysis to evaluate interviews with parents of children with Down's syndrome.
2020:
Reclaiming our innate vitality: bringing embodied narratives to life through Dance Movement Psychotherapy.
This is a chapter in and anthology of feminist research by A. Williamson and B. Sellers-Young, (eds.) entiltled Spiritual Herstories: Call of the soul in dance research. Bristol, Intellect, pp. 207-22
2019:
Removing the threat of exclusion in schools: creating inclusive educational environments
In this article, Caroline Frizell and David Woodger explore the impact of a school with a 'no permanent exclusions' policy on young people with social, emotional and behavioural support needs.
2023:
Creative Bodies in Therapy Performance and Community: Research and Practice that brings us home
This co-edited book champions several diverse and innovative research and practrice with the creative body as a catalyst for change in therapy, education and community.
Publications and research outputs
Book
- Posthuman Possibilities of Dance Movement Psychotherapy: Moving through Eco-feminist and New Materialist Entanglements of Differently Enabled Bodies in Research Frizell, Caroline. 2024. Posthuman Possibilities of Dance Movement Psychotherapy: Moving through Eco-feminist and New Materialist Entanglements of Differently Enabled Bodies in Research. Abingdon: Routledge. ISBN 9781032345352
Edited Book
- Creative Bodies in Therapy, Performance and Community: Research and Practice that Brings us Home Frizell, Caroline and Rova, Marina, eds. 2022. Creative Bodies in Therapy, Performance and Community: Research and Practice that Brings us Home. Abingdon: Routledge. ISBN 9781032119809
Edited Journal
- Embodied practice and research with the earth in mind Frizell, Caroline, ed. 2023. Embodied practice and research with the earth in mind, Body Movement and Dance in Psychotherapy, 18(4). 1743-2979
Book Section
- Coming home to a posthuman body Frizell, Caroline. 2023. Coming home to a posthuman body. In: Linda Aspey; Catherine Jackson and Diane Parker, eds. Holding the Hope: reviving psychological & spiritual agency in the face of climate change. Monmouth: PCCS Books, pp. 76-85. ISBN 9781915220271
- Arriving, becoming and arriving again Frizell, Caroline and Rova, Marina. 2023. Arriving, becoming and arriving again. In: Caroline Frizell and Marina Rova, eds. Creative Bodies in Therapy, Performance and Community: Research and Practice that Brings us Home. Abingdon: Routledge, pp. 1-11. ISBN 9781032119809
- The matriarch and the mollusc and all things in between Frizell, Caroline. 2023. The matriarch and the mollusc and all things in between. In: Caroline Frizell and Marina Rova, eds. Creative Bodies in Therapy, Performance and Community: Research and Practice that Brings us Home. London: Routledge, pp. 180-189. ISBN 9781032119809
Article
- Being a therapist in a time of climate breakdown Frizell, Caroline. 2025. Being a therapist in a time of climate breakdown. Body, Movement and Dance in Psychotherapy: An International Journal for Theory, Research and Practice, ISSN 1743-2979
- Bodies, landscapes, and the air that we breathe Frizell, Caroline. 2023. Bodies, landscapes, and the air that we breathe. Kritika Kultura(40), pp. 71-85. ISSN 2094-6937
- Learning disability imagined differently: an evaluation of interviews with parents about discovering that their child has Down’s Syndrome Frizell, Caroline. 2021. Learning disability imagined differently: an evaluation of interviews with parents about discovering that their child has Down’s Syndrome. Disability & Society, 36(10), pp. 1574-1593. ISSN 0968-7599
Conference or Workshop Item
- Can we walk a little slower? Ethics as a portal to hope, humility and playfulness in a precarious world. Frizell, Caroline and Rova, Marina. 2025. 'Can we walk a little slower? Ethics as a portal to hope, humility and playfulness in a precarious world.'. In: 8th European Congress of Qualitative Inquiry: Hope, Humility and Playfulness in a Precarious World. University of Edinburgh, United Kingdom 7 - 10 January 2025.
- Large Group as critical pedagogy in Higher Education: professional arts therapies training through experiential embodied learning Frizell, Caroline and Law, Agnes. 2024. 'Large Group as critical pedagogy in Higher Education: professional arts therapies training through experiential embodied learning'. In: ECARTE 17h European Arts Therapies Conference. Ghent University, Belgium 11 -14 September.
- Bringing the researcher into the room: New materialist entanglements of the research team when analysing 26 interviews exploring the emotional wellbeing of parents of learning-disabled children and young people Frizell, Caroline; Taylor, Mark; Diener, Juliet and Weston, Nicola. 2024. 'Bringing the researcher into the room: New materialist entanglements of the research team when analysing 26 interviews exploring the emotional wellbeing of parents of learning-disabled children and young people'. In: UKCP Conference. Online, United Kingdom 7 - 8 June 2024.
Film/Video
- Coming to our Senses Frizell, Caroline. 2017. Coming to our Senses.
Professional Activity
- Associate Editor for the Peer Reviewed Journal Body Movemement and Dance in Psychotherapy Frizell, Caroline. 2024. Associate Editor for the Peer Reviewed Journal Body Movemement and Dance in Psychotherapy.
- External Examiner Frizell, Caroline. 2019. External Examiner.
- Member of editorial board for the journal Dance, Movement and Spiritualities Frizell, Caroline. 2012. Member of editorial board for the journal Dance, Movement and Spiritualities.
Report
- A Journey of Change: From Social Isolation to Inclusion Frizell, Caroline and Woodger, David. 2019. A Journey of Change: From Social Isolation to Inclusion. Project Report. Goldsmiths, University of London.
Thesis
- Towards posthuman dancing subjects: a critical commentary assemblage that interrupts five published works through the lens of practice-led, new materialist research Frizell, Caroline. 2021. Towards posthuman dancing subjects: a critical commentary assemblage that interrupts five published works through the lens of practice-led, new materialist research. Doctoral thesis, Goldsmiths, University of London
Research projects
Posthuman Possibilities of Dance Movement Psychotherapy
This book will be available in 2023
