IADMS New York 2002   [back to the Category]

Psychological Issues in Dance Medicine   [read the french version]

Author :   Ruth Solomon, BA & Al.

Psychological Issues in Dance Medicine

Ruth Solomon, BA
University of California, Santa Cruz
Santa Cruz, California

Linda Hamilton, PhD
Fordham University
New York, New York, USA

Stanley Greben, MD, FRCPC
University of Toronto, Dancer Transition Resource Centre
Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Linda Mainwaring, PhD
University of Toronto
Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Marijeanne Liederbach, MSATC, MSPT
Harkness Center for Dance Injuries, Hospital for Joint Diseases
New York, New York, USA



This 60-minute interactive forum is intended as follow-up to the two-part Special Issue of the Journal of Dance Medicine and Science entitles “Psychological Issues in Dance Medicine” [5(4), 2001, and 6(1), 2002]. Three of the subjects introduced there—career transitions in dance, how dancers deal with pain, and fatigue as a factor in dance injuries—will be reviewed, along with the results of a study published elsewhere [Medical Problems of Performing Artists 16(3), Sept. 2001] on the personalities of student and professional dancers. Primary emphasis will always be on the interface between the psychological and physiological aspects of what dancers, and those who train and treat them do. The five panelists will have 8 minutes each to present their research, followed by 20 minutes of questions and answers. The audience should be particularly well prepared for this interaction, as many of them will no doubt have read the recent publications. In that regard this may well be a first of its kind opportunity for the IADMS membership to respond in the forum format to authors who speak to them through the major periodicals in the field. It will also offer a gauge of interest in the emerging sub-field of dance psychology.