Dr. Lily Martin

Education

10/2012 – 03/2016
M.Sc. in Clinical and Health Psychology, Free University of Berlin

10/2009 – 09/2012
B.Sc. in Psychology, Free University of Berlin

Work

02/2017 – 02/2018
Psychological counseling for underage refugees, Diakoniewerk Simeon, Youth Welfare Services/Berlin

Since 03/2016
Research Assistant at the Research Institute for Creative Arts Therapies (RIArT) at Alanus University of Arts and Social Sciences, Alfter/Bonn

Since 05/2015
Freelance lecturer on embodiment and embodied learning. Clients: SBH Nord/Berlin, SRH/Heidelberg, DGVT/Erlangen

Since 04/2015
Soprano in the Choir of the Cultures of the World, Haus der Kulturen der Welt (HKW), Berlin

01/2014 – 12/2014
Communications and public relations at Aktionsbündnis seelische Gesundheit, Berlin

Scholarships

Since 06/2020
Doctoral scholarship from the Stiftung der Deutschen Wirtschaft (SDW)

10/2015 – 02/2016
PROMOS scholarship for an internship at New York Presbyterian Hospital, New York, USA; funded by the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD)

09/2011 – 04/2012
ERASMUS scholarship for studies at Boğaziçi University in Istanbul, Turkey; funded by the European Commission

Memberships

since 2017
German Scientific Society for Creative Arts Therapies (WFKT), founding member and participant in pre-founding processes

Lily Martin works on the interrelationship between psychiatric disorders and body movement as well as on the empirical and experimental substantiation of theories of embodiment and disembodiment (doctoral project “Schizophrenia and the Moving Body”).

At Alanus University, she explores the effects of artistic interventions on health-related outcomes and specific concepts such as aesthetic distancing, goal-directed group processes, and the effect of flow. In addition, she is interested in the development of artistic/arts-based research methods as well as the use of arts-based methods to reduce stigma (see the project “The Pop-Up Institute”).

Schizophrenia and the Moving Body

PhD project at Heidelberg University, supervisors: Prof. Dr. Dr. Thomas Fuchs, Prof. Dr. Joachim Funke (Heidelberg University), Prof. Dr. Niko Troje (York University)

The overall goals of the project are (1) to find empirical evidence/correlates for the theoretical concept of disembodiment, (2) to propose quantitative socio-motor markers of schizophrenic disembodiment and (3) with this to establish tools, which could help to objectively diagnose a motor dimension in schizophrenia, to discriminate the illness from other psychiatric disorders, and ideally to predict it before its onset. Achievement of these goals will eventually support a comprehensive treatment of symptoms.

The Pop-Up Institute

Research project at Alanus University, cooperation: Kerstin Schoch, HKS Ottersberg

The Pop-up Institute, a location-independent and project-based institute,

aims at reducing stigma and promoting empathy towards mental illness by communicating experiences of people affected via artistic media and methods of Creative Arts Therapies. Collaborating with artists, creative arts therapists and people affected by mental illnesses, it systematically collects non-verbal and pre-reflective expe­riences within artistic media (movement or dance, visual art, music) and offers them to an audience in innovative forms of pre­sentations (e.g. exhibi­tion, performance). This creates a (kin)aesthetic experience and provides a sensual, pre-reflective access to phenomena, which elude verbal descrip­tion and comprehension. Creating tangible experiences (how does it sound, smell, feel like to be mentally ill?) can increase empathy and significantly reduce stigma towards the mentally ill (kinaesthetic empathy, resonance).

See https://popupinstitut.com for further information.

• Martin, L., Melchert, T., Knack, M. & Fuchs, T. (2023). Relating movement markers of schizophrenia to self-experience – a mixed-methods study. Frontiers in Psychiatry. (23/14).
• Knack, M., Martin, L., & Fuchs, T. (2022). Fragmented temporality. A phenomenological model of schizophrenia as a disorder of pre-reflective experience. Phänomenologische Forschungen. (22/1). 129-154.
• Martin, L., Stein, K., Kubera, K., Troje, N. & Fuchs, T. (2022). Movement Markers of Schizophrenia – a detailed Analysis of patients gait patterns. Eur Arch Psychiatry Clin Neurosci. doi: 10.1007/s00406-022-01402-y.
• Zapata-Fonseca, L., Martin, L., & Fuchs, T. (2021). Operationalizing Disembodied Interaction: The Perceptual Crossing Experiment in Schizophrenia Research. Phenomenology and Mind, (21), 111-125.
• Fuchs, T., de Haan, S., Ludwig, M. & Martin, L. (Eds.) (2021). Self- and world-experience in schizophrenia: The phenomenological interviews EASE and EAWE. (Vol. 1). Stuttgart: Kohlhammer.
• Koch, S. C., Riege, R. F. F., Tisborn, K., & Biondo, J., Martin L., Beelmann, A. (2019). Effects of dance movement therapy and dance on health-related psychological outcomes. A meta-analysis update. Frontiers in Psychology, 10, 1806.
• Martin, L., Oepen, R., Bauer, K., Nottensteiner, A., Mergheim, K., Gruber, H., & Koch, S. C. (2018). Creative Arts Interventions for Stress Management and Prevention—A Systematic Review. Behavioral Sciences, 8(2), 28.
• Koch, S. C., Martin, L., Tschacher, W., Fuchs, T., Hrsg. (2017). Embodied Aesthetics and Interpersonal Resonance, Special Issue in Behavioral Sciences (Open Access): http://www.mdpi.com/ journal/behavsci/special_issues/interpersonal_resonance.
• Koch, S., Martin, L. (2017). Embodied aesthetics: An identity-forming effective factor of creative arts therapies. In Gruber, H, Sinapius, P., Tüpker, R. (Hrsg.): Scientific foundations of creative arts therapies, Volume 6: Specific and Non-specific Factors in Creative Arts Therapies, 81-106.
• Martin, L., Pohlmann, V., Koch, S. C., & Fuchs, T. (2016). Back into Life: Effects of Embodied Therapies on Patients with Schizophrenia. European Psychotherapy, 13.
• Koch, S.C, Gruber, H., Kortum R., Reichelt, S., Martin, L., Warth, M., Radbruch, L. (2016). Creative arts therapies in palliative care – A review. Hospizzeitschrift, 2016/1.
• Martin, L., Koch, S., Hirjak, D., & Fuchs, T. (2016). Overcoming Disembodiment: The Effect of Movement Therapy on Negative Symptoms in Schizophrenia – A Multicenter Randomized Controlled Trial. Frontiers in Psychology.
• Ramge, A., Martin, L., & Gaebel, W. (2014). Fairmedia – Reporting on people with mental illness: Guidance for female and male journalists as well as female and male editors (Vol. 1). Berlin: German Society for Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, Psychosomatics and Neurology (DGPPN). http://fairmedia.seelischegesundheit.net/images/Bilder/fairmedia_leitfaden_berichterstattung.pdf
• Steinhäuser, T., Martin, L., von Lersner, U., & Auckenthaler, A. (2014). Concepts of “transcultural competence” and their relevance for psychiatric and psychotherapeutic care. Results of an interdisciplinary literature review. PPmP-Psychotherapie· Psychosomatik· Medizinische Psychologie, 64, 345-353.

All articles are available on Researchgate.net.