Publications and Talks

Publications

Black, J; Reynoso, J; Bernstein, B; Cushman, D; Dabbous, R; Dodd, Z; Geal, R; Meeuwsen, S; Pang, B; Rivera, M; Samai-Moskovich, S; Scanlon, P; Shapiro, L; Thomas, B; Thompson, S; Tocatly, K; Tuber, S & Wittmann, K. (2025). What does it mean to psychoanalyse sport? Reflections from the field. Cogent Social Sciences, 11, pp. 1-21.

Wittmann, K. (2025). Connection through separation: negotiating boundaries in dance movement psychotherapy with psychosis. In: Frizell, C. & Rova, M. Practice Research through Creative Bodies: Perspectives on Embodied Enquiry. Routledge.

Wittmann, K. (2024). The woman is perfected: a psychoanalytic reading of systemic abuse in women's artistic gymnastics. Psychoanalysis, Culture and Society, 29, pp. 240-255.

Talks

Feb 2026 - AHRC M4C Research Festival, Birmingham, "(Dis)ordered Eating: Gymnastics, Hysteria and other Deadly Mysteries"

Jan 2026 - Intersections Conference, Royal Central School for Speech and Drama

Nov 2025 - Book Launch: Practice Research through Creative Bodies, Chapter Presentation, Goldsmiths University of London

Nov 2025 - IV Congreso International AIE Escuela Universitaria de Artes Madrid, "remembering through form: working with materialities in the choreographic process"

Oct 2025 - Performativity(ies) of Memory(ies)Interdisciplinary Conference, Polytech Institute of Viana do Castelo Portugal, "remembering through form"

June 2025 - Cultural Memory, Museums and the Senses Workshop Coventry University: panel "Sensory spaces: Bodies / Traces / Materiality of Memory"

May 2025 - A Thin Line Roundtable Discussion on Abuse in Youth Sport (video presentation)

March 2025 - Cultural Memory Seminar Coventry University: "remembering through form: working with materialities in the choreographic process"

Feb 2025 Practice research symposium: feminisms, bodies, messiness

Oct 2024 Midlands4Cities Doctoral Training Partnership Research Festival, Birmingham: "Imperfection of the perfect body. A psychoanalytic exploration of the female gymnast's body"

June 2024 (Inter)disciplinary Bodies Conference, Brunel University London: "Imperfection of the perfect body. A psychoanalytic exploration of the female gymnast's body"

Sept 2022 European Association of Dance Movement Therapy Conference, Berlin: "Working with a fragmented body in a fragmenting world. An individual digital & in-person dance movement psychotherapy case study with psychosis and complex trauma in the community"