Carrying body and soul and embracing the one: Qigong group in a day-care psychiatric department

Abstract

Qigong is an ancient Chinese art of movement, breathing and energy cultivation, which became a focus for medical research in the western world in the last decades. This article presents a module of qigong group in a psychiatric day-care department as the rationale of the group relies on the evidence-based multiple physical and mental benefits of qigong practice. The interface between different qigong elements and psychotherapy is discussed in order to emphasise the beneficial effect of implementation of qigong practice in mental health settings, and the authors suggest that qigong practice should receive more attention from clinicians and body and movement therapists.

Dance Movement Therapy for Clients With a Personality Disorder: A Systematic Review and Thematic Synthesis

“…Agreement between the two reviewers regarding the inclusion and exclusion of articles was good with a Kappa value of 0.60, indicating that the observed agreement was 60% of the way between chance agreement and perfect agreement. Seventeen articles were excluded with the following reasons: two articles (Kluft et al, 1986;Baum, 1991) addressed multiple PD which does not meet the primary diagnostic criteria of PD anymore in the DSM-5 (American Psychiatric Association, 2013), fourteen articles (Ammon, 2003;Netz and Lidor, 2003;Karterud and Urnes, 2004;Mörtl and Von Wietersheim, 2008;Cruz, 2009;Van den Broek et al, 2011;Potik and Schreiber, 2013;Jorba-Galdos, 2014;Benjamin, 2015;Pylvänäinen et al, 2015;Cobbett, 2016;Bellemans et al, 2018;Samuelsson and Rosberg, 2018;Koch et al, 2019b) did not specifically address PD and/or DMT as the main intervention. One article was excluded (Havsteen-Franklin et al, 2019) as it appeared that the study used sources (Manford, 2014;Röhricht, 2015) that were already included in the results from this study.…”