Bodily and therapeutic movement: A phenomenological study of narrative practice
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Bodily and therapeutic movement : A phenomenological study of narrative practice. / Langager, Anna; Roald, Tone.
I: Journal of Phenomenological Psychology, Bind 49, Nr. 1, 2018, s. 43-63.Publikation: Bidrag til tidsskrift › Tidsskriftartikel › Forskning › fagfællebedømt
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TY - JOUR
T1 - Bodily and therapeutic movement
T2 - A phenomenological study of narrative practice
AU - Langager, Anna
AU - Roald, Tone
PY - 2018
Y1 - 2018
N2 - In this article we present a phenomenological single-case study of a client’s experience of her therapist’s bodily movement in the context of narrative therapy. A client was interviewed regarding her experience of selected bodily movements of the therapist based on a video recording of one of her therapeutic sessions. The movements were analyzed through Maxine Sheets-Johnstone’s cardinal structures of movement while the interview was analyzed through a modification of Giorgi’s method for phenomenological psychology. We focused on the relationship between the therapist’s bodily movement and therapeutic movement in the client and arrived at general structures of the client’s experience of being moved by movement. The experience comprises three core constituents: ‘shifts in sense of self’, ‘sense of togetherness’ and ‘feelings of mobility’, and reveals that the therapist’s bodily movements can lead to therapeutic changes compatible with the aim of narrative therapy.
AB - In this article we present a phenomenological single-case study of a client’s experience of her therapist’s bodily movement in the context of narrative therapy. A client was interviewed regarding her experience of selected bodily movements of the therapist based on a video recording of one of her therapeutic sessions. The movements were analyzed through Maxine Sheets-Johnstone’s cardinal structures of movement while the interview was analyzed through a modification of Giorgi’s method for phenomenological psychology. We focused on the relationship between the therapist’s bodily movement and therapeutic movement in the client and arrived at general structures of the client’s experience of being moved by movement. The experience comprises three core constituents: ‘shifts in sense of self’, ‘sense of togetherness’ and ‘feelings of mobility’, and reveals that the therapist’s bodily movements can lead to therapeutic changes compatible with the aim of narrative therapy.
KW - Faculty of Social Sciences
KW - bodily movement
KW - narrative therapy
KW - phenomenology
KW - psychotherapy research
KW - therapeutic change
U2 - 10.1163/15691624-12341336
DO - 10.1163/15691624-12341336
M3 - Journal article
VL - 49
SP - 43
EP - 63
JO - Journal of Phenomenological Psychology
JF - Journal of Phenomenological Psychology
SN - 0047-2662
IS - 1
ER -
ID: 188519285