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| Titel: |
What therapeutic hope for a subjective mind in an objectified body? |
| Auteur: |
Soth, Michael |
| Verschenen in: |
Body, movement and dance in psychotherapy |
| Paginering: | Jaargang 1 (2006) nr. 1 pagina's 43-56 |
| Jaar: |
2006-03-01 |
| Inhoud: |
This is an article based on a presentation given at the United Kingdom Council of Psychotherapy (UKCP) conference 2004. Our modern attempt to re-include the body in psychotherapy brings with it the inevitable danger that we import the culturally dominant objectifying construction of the body into a field which may represent one of the last bastions of subjectivity, authenticity, and intimacy in an increasingly virtual world. The paper addresses the question how embodied subjectivity can be found within a relational matrix pervaded by disembodiment and self-objectification. The ubiquitous objectification of the body in our culture and in the field of psychotherapy is illustrated in the paper. It is described as a manifestation of an underlying experience of dis-embodiment. Two ways of re-including the body in psychotherapy are then distinguished: one based on a “third-person” “medical model” stance and the other on a “first-and-second-person” “intersubjective-relational” model. By formulating these two contradictory and complementary ways of using the body in terms of the therapist's implicit relational stance, attention is drawn to what is considered an underlying paradox inherent in all types of psychotherapy. I am hoping that practitioners from across the approaches will be able to recognize and relate to both sides of the dilemma, and through this to both ways of re-including the body in psychotherapy. As the medical model stance was the prevalent default position of what we may therefore call traditional body psychotherapy, and the relational one has become available only in the last decade, a case illustration is used to trace some of my own development as a therapist through the shadow aspects and pitfalls of an exclusive reliance on the first towards an integration of the two and to an appreciation of their necessarily conflicted co-existence in the paradoxical core of the therapeutic position. |
| Uitgever: |
Taylor & Francis |
| Bronbestand: |
Elektronische Wetenschappelijke Tijdschriften |
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