Karolina Bryl

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About Karolina Bryl

Karolina Bryl, PhD, R-DMT/DMP, CMA, RMST/E, is a Research Associate at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Institute - Integrative Medicine Department. Completed her PhD in Creative Arts Therapies and 3 year postdoctoral fellowship in the Department of Creative Arts Therapies at Drexel University. Member of the Polish Association of DMP (Ethics and Research Committees), ADTA (Global Membership and Research and Practice Committees) and Schizophrenia International Research Society (Ethics Committee). She has lead dance movement psychotherapy and somatic therapies sessions in the psychiatric settings and in private practice, individually and in groups, with children who have suffered neglect and abuse, have the difficulty of adaptation and autistic spectrum and adults with mental disorders, depression and schizophrenia. Since 2013 a research team member at Mind, Movement, Interaction, and Development Research Group at Pace University, International Psychoanalytic Association Lifetime Research Fellow, and 2016-2017 Contemporary Freudian Society fellow. Research interests are:(1) DMT effectiveness in adults with mental illness,(2) nonverbal behavior and the body’s relevance to psychic processes, and (3) neuropsychoanalytic and developmental research.