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From the Managing Editor International Body Psychotherapy Journal: The Art and Science of Somatic Praxis Jill van der Aa Dear Editor of Somatic Psychotherapy Today, I write this on your birthday although it will be read when you are six months older! I was glad to hear that today you would celebrate with chocolate cake and champagne! So this is a good time to say what a great job you do, pretty much singlehandedly I understand, with the help of your wonderful designer Diana Houghton-Whiting. <strong>SPT</strong> is lively, colourful, modern, committed, encouraging, inspiring, and makes a wonderful contribution to this new and exciting field we are working in and for. By the way, I wonder sometimes how you fit it all in and keep the rest of your life going? We, on the editorial team of the IBPJ, struggle to keep our lives going so we do understand. It is what happens when you become committed to something bigger than yourself – you become obsessed. You live it day and night. By the time this is being read, both the Editor and the Managing Editor will have reached a ripe old age! So I (the Managing Editor) sometimes ask myself, isn’t it time to get some addiction therapy, slow down, find some younger people to take over and retire? It is. But will we? Jacqueline Carleton, with the support of Robyn Burns, kept the USABP Journal going for ten years. These last two years have been a mammoth effort to transition from an in-house Association Journal to a peer reviewed open access Journal, from a two person to a many person effort. I’ll come back to that. But why the obsession? Because we, (as you do), feel we have something valuable to offer, and we would like to make it available to people from complimentary health disciplines, to clients, and to anyone involved with working with people! Healing comes through working with the whole person and that also means working with a combination of bodybased, non-verbal methods as well as traditional verbal ways of bringing things together. For too long the head has ruled – we want the body to be heard and felt. Doctors and psychiatrists, for instance, could do with a good dose of somatic psychology, and it might work a good deal better than some of those sugar-coated pills! Thankfully, through all of our efforts, a great range of contributions is coming into the Journal now, from a diversity of methods, from clinical descriptions to research reports and in-depth book reviews, from senior trainers and writers to students writing their dissertations, from US and European sources. Keep it coming! We love it. And we love the sense of community building. While the Journal goes for in-depth analysis, the <strong>SPT</strong> and the LinkedIn discussion groups set up by Serge Prengel are complimentary with interviews and discussions from which further work is developing. From reaching a small group of three hundred therapists, we are together reaching thousands of people, all over the world, who are not only interested in passively reading about what we are doing but actively participating with us. It’s clear! One of my obsessions is about relating, about being heard, about community – working together in a team. While the load of creating the IBPJ does fall squarely on a small number of people: Editor, Managing Editor, Assistant Editor, Peer Review coordinator, and German Editor, we have been building a wider team. Abstract translators come from about ten different European countries and some are now beginning to translate articles back into their own language, in Greek for instance. Each article is peer reviewed by three reviewers providing mentoring for authors as well as an opportunity for senior members of the field to impart what they have learned. This is an enormous job. Most scientific Journals use an automated system but our process is done manually. To get such a system would cost at least $6,000 and that is money neither of our two Associations, USABP and EABP, have. We are of course looking for a maesenas, or an external publisher, but are wary of letting go of control at this exciting stage. It is OK for the Editor and Managing Editor to reveal their obsessions at this ripe old age, but Jacqueline Carleton, PhD, mentors young graduate students who have been doing a lot of the work, and I wondered what they were getting out of their voluntary commitment to the IBPJ? Somatic Psychotherapy Today | Fall 2014 | Volume 4 Number 2 | page 8
Diane Cai has been with us for two years now developing from peer review coordinator to Associate Editor. This position will add to her professional advancement very directly in the future. Josh joined us recently, and I asked him to describe what he does and what he gets out of it. In conjunction with Diane Cai, I handle the submissions process from initial receipt of articles, through peer reviewing, to revisions and receipt of final drafts. In some way I am the “middleman” between our peer reviewers and the authors who publish in our journal. This has been a great responsibility to have, providing great experience and insight to the inner workings of academic journals. My experience working with the International Body Psychotherapy Journal will be very useful as I continue my training within the doctoral program at the University of Western Ontario in the fall. My ability writing articles is greatly enhanced by knowing what peer reviewers are looking for in publishable material and as I engage in peer reviewing in the future, I will have already been widely exposed to the peer review process. Joshua David Wright The International Body Psychotherapy Journal is a big undertaking and we have been very lucky with the enormous number of people who have contributed to its development so far. As birthdays pass, time marches on and we are constantly on the lookout for younger people to participate and pass the baton onto so if you read this letter and think this is something for you contact us. In the meantime we continue with our obsession. Jill van der Aa, Managing Editor jill.vanderaa@eabp.org CALL FOR PAPERS The International Body Psychotherapy Journal is Seeking Articles for its Special Issue Spring, 2015: Research Guest Editor: Jennifer Frank Tantia, PhD The International Body Psychotherapy Journal is a peer-reviewed, biannual journal that supports, promotes and stimulates the exchange of ideas and research regarding body psychotherapy and all disciplines related to it. Research in Body Psychotherapy is integral to the field’s growth, development, and communication among related fields of psychology. As an emerging paradigm, theories from Body Psychotherapy must be explored and challenged through qualitative and quantitative research in order to solidify its value within the field of psychotherapy. We are seeking research articles from both professionals and students from the somatic psychotherapy field and adjacent fields for this special edition, to amplify the visibility of current studies in the field. Continued on page 91 Somatic Psychotherapy Today | Fall 2014 | Volume 4 Number 2 | page 9
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