Dr Caroline Frizell
Staff details
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.
Publications and research outputs
Book
Frizell, Caroline. 2023. 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
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
Book Section
Frizell, Caroline. 2023. The cat, the foal and other meetings that make a difference: posthuman research that re-animates our responsiveness to knowing and becoming. In: Caroline Frizell and Marina Rova, eds. Creative Bodies in Therapy, Performance and Community: Research and Practice that Brings us Home. Abingdon: Routledge, pp. 50-59. ISBN 9781032119809
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
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
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
Frizell, Caroline. 2020. Reclaiming our innate vitality: bringing embodied narratives to life through Dance Movement Psychotherapy. In: Amanda Williamson and Barbara Sellers-Young, eds. Spiritual Herstories: Call of the soul in dance research. Bristol, UK: Intellect, pp. 207-220. ISBN 9781789380828
Frizell, Caroline. 2017. Entering the world: dance movement psychotherapy and the complexity of beginnings with learning disabled clients. In: Geoffery Unkovich; Céline Buttee and Jacqueline Butler, eds. Dance Movement Psychotherapy with People with Learning Disabilities: Out of the Shadows, into the Light. Abingdon: Routledge, pp. 9-21. ISBN 9781138963313
Article
Frizell, Caroline. 2023. Bodies, landscapes, and the air that we breathe. Kritika Kultura(40), pp. 71-85. ISSN 2094-6937
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
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
Frizell, Caroline. 2018. Dancing Differently. Journal of the West Country Association for Counselling, 2, pp. 17-19.
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
Shearman, Sarah and Frizell, Caroline. 2017. Careers in art therapy: 'The ability to listen is crucial'. The Guardian,
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),
Frizell, Caroline. 2016. Decoding the Body's message. Therapy Today, 27(3), p. 42. ISSN 1748-7846
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.
Frizell, Caroline. 2014. Body sense and Trauma. Therapy Today, 25(7), p. 45. ISSN 1748-7846
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.
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
Frizell, Caroline. 2013. Whole-earth Healing. Therapy Today, 24(4), pp. 44-45. ISSN 1748-7846
Frizell, Caroline. 2013. A Journey of Becoming. E-motion the journal for the Association for Dance Movement Psychotherapy, XXIII(2), pp. 11-12.
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
Frizell, Caroline. 2012. Call of the wild. Therapy Today, 23(6), p. 46. ISSN 1748-7846
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.
Conference or Workshop Item
Frizell, Caroline. 2020. 'Dance as a Vital ~Art: in therapy and in life'. In: Irish Association of Creative Arts Therapists (IACAT). Online, Ireland 10 October 2020.
Frizell, Caroline. 2019. 'Ecopsychology: working towards health and wellbeing in a world in which all matter matters'. In: International Festival of Mental Health and Wellbeing. Royal Society of Arts, London, United Kingdom 22 - 29 September 2019.
Frizell, Caroline. 2019. 'A new-materialist approach to dance movement psychotherapy’'. In: Cultural, Intercultural and Transnational Dialogues in Dance and Spirituality. Centre for Embodiment and Bio-Somatic Dance Movement Therapy, United Kingdom 30 August - 1 September 2019.
Frizell, Caroline. 2019. '‘Respect for Other: touching and being touched’ Key note presentation at “Space for Art Therapies” 2019: 4th International Conference in Expressive Art Therapies'. In: “Space for Art Therapies” 2019: 4th International Conference in Expressive Art Therapies. Prague, Czech Republic 28-29 June 2019.
Frizell, Caroline. 2019. 'A truth mandala through embodied practice'. In: “Space for Art Therapies” 2019 : 4th International Conference in Expressive Art Therapies. Prague, Czech Republic 28-29 June 2019.
Frizell, Caroline. 2016. 'Coming to our senses'. In: Eco-Psychotherapy: Healing and the Natural World. London Wetlands Centre, United Kingdom 18 March 2017.
Frizell, Caroline. 2016. 'Social Dreaming Matrix'. In: Social Dreaming Matrix. Goldsmiths, University of London, United Kingdom 13 - 16 April 2016.
Frizell, Caroline. 2012. 'Is anybody Listening? An experiential workshop'. In: Is any body listening?. Goldsmiths, University of London, United Kingdom 18 May 2012.
Film/Video
Frizell, Caroline. 2017. Coming to our Senses.
Professional Activity
Frizell, Caroline. 2019. External Examiner.
Frizell, Caroline. 2012. Member of editorial board for the journal Dance, Movement and Spiritualities.
Report
Frizell, Caroline and Woodger, David. 2019. A Journey of Change: From Social Isolation to Inclusion. Project Report. Goldsmiths, University of London.
Thesis
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
Further profile content
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.
Research projects
Posthuman Possibilities of Dance Movement Psychotherapy
This book will be available in 2023
