Submitted in accordance with the requirements for the Degree of Masters in the subject of Psychology, Faculty of Arts at the University of Zululand, 2007. / This study identifies a new paradigm for working with body, mind and spirit that facilitates psychotherapeutic processes. It uses both the verbal and non¬verbal components of human experience. It transforms life's challenges into an empowering, transformational and healing process, allowing opportunities for unfolding our true potential. Philophonetics is a modality of counselling, psychotherapy and coaching. It is a phenomenological approach to human experiences that facilitate the client in a process of active exploration, self discovery and empowerment to become more conscious in their own knowing and way of being in the world. It accepts awareness through the living body as a way of knowing through sensation, movement and gesture, visualization of internal dynamics and the resonance of sound therapy. The skills learnt in the sessions can be practiced and integrated by the client and used for self-management and self-care between sessions and after therapy is completed. The present study has shown how effective philophonetics can be and it is evident that this modality cuts across cultures. The findings of the present study are in keeping with international literature which confirms that philophonetics unlike other therapeutic modalities, it does not rely heavily on the verbal mode but employs about 80% of the nonverbal phase.

Notre démarche vise à éclairer notre intuition de recherche principale : l'introduction des techniques corps-esprit, en l'occurrence le qigong 氣功ou « travail du souffle », dans le champ de la recherche médicale, ouvre à des enjeux psychopathologiques majeurs.L'auteur, d'un double cursus, psychanalyse et Qigong, soutient que le retour à la perception soutenu par le développement des gestes d'attention, appuyé sur la respiration, nous place en amont de l'action motrice et constitue potentiellement un moyen d'action sur les processus compulsifs.L'enjeu scientifique inscrit au premier programme de recherche clinique dédié au qigong soutenu par le ministère en charge de la Santé, sera de contribuer à l'actualisation des modalités d'action sur les processus de déliaison et de fixation dans le sens d'une relance de la pulsion de vie. L'auteur extrait pour cela, les concepts Pulsion et Qi, concepts fondamentaux des deux champs (Partie I et II). Cette méthode nous a permis de dégager les occurrences respectives aux deux corpus, à partir d'un trait commun, l'énergie. Les quatre premiers chapitres posent le socle des concepts et notions nécessaires pour comprendre cette articulation Pulsion et Qi en référence à une fonction motrice commune. La clinique des addictions constitue le terrain privilégié de cette investigation (Partie III). En effet, la mise à jour du craving, comme symptôme central de l'addiction et sa nature pulsionnelle nous conforte dans le choix d'une approche mixte, quantitative et qualitative orientée à la psychanalyse. Autrement dit, cette recherche nous place au cœur de la dynamique pulsionnelle freudienne, dont la démarche s'inscrit en regard des avancées scientifiques de notre temps. La dynamique pulsionnelle et l'introduction des techniques corps-esprit suscitent en effet l'intérêt des neuroscientifiques, notamment à l'hôpital universitaire Pitié-Salpêtrière. / Our intent is to clarify our intuition on a more important research : integrating body-mind techniques, especially concerning the qigong 氣功or “work of breath”, in medical research thus opening important psychopathologic paths. The author, who has a double background, in both psychoanalysis and Qigong, sustains that the return to perception, backed up by the development of attentive gests and respiration, upgrades the driving force and is potentially responsible of having a positive effect on the compulsive processes. The scientific stake inscribed in the first program of clinical research dedicated to Qigong supported by the Minister in charge of Health matters, would be to contribute to the actualisation of modes of action on the processes of unbinding and fixation by boosting the life drive. The author has extracted the concepts of Drive and Qi, fundamental concepts in both fields (Partial and II). This method has allowed us to clarify the respective occurrences in both worlds from a common point – energy. The first four chapters establish the basis of the understanding of these concepts and notions necessary to understand the articulation of Drive and Qi referring to a common driving force. The clinic for addictions is a privileged field of investigation (Part III). Indeed, the explication of craving as the central symptom of addiction and its’ instinctive nature comforts us in the choice of a mixed approach, quantitative and qualitative, oriented towards the psychoanalysis. In other words, this research places us in the heart of the Freudian pulsation dynamic and the approach is inscribed in the scientific progress of our time. The driving dynamic and the introduction of body-mind techniques arouse the interest of the neuroscientifics especially at the University Hospital Pitié-Salpêtrière.

Orientador: Júlia Ziviani Vitiello / Tese (doutorado) - Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Instituto de Artes / Made available in DSpace on 2018-08-17T11:20:22Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Pees_AdrianaAlmeida_D.pdf: 45750189 bytes, checksum: a1f9701451b5c8aef61be6cb017ff685 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2010 / Resumo: Esta pesquisa busca através dos princípios de movimento do método Body-Mind Centering® (BMC) ? desenvolvido por Bonnie Bainbridge Cohen ? estudar o Sistema Vestibular e suas relações com o equilíbrio do corpo. Investiga suas possíveis contribuições quanto ao desenvolvimento motor e suas implicações qualitativas nos gestos e nas ações para a atuação e criação nas artes cênicas. Desde que o equilíbrio corporal deve-se a interação de três sistemas: somatosensorial, visual e vestibular. O método Body-Mind Centering® apresentase relevante neste estudo, pois seus princípios proporcionam uma vivência anatômica de diferentes sistemas corporais, favorecendo o reconhecimento da atuação do sistema vestibular no movimento. Isso conduz à compreensão de como abrangemos inteligentemente os sentidos no corpo, e como estes se relacionam com a percepção e o desenvolvimento do movimento. Almeja-se que esta pesquisa possa elucidar de que maneira o BMC pode interferir no aprendizado de como as ações se codificam possibilitando que se compreenda também que novas maneiras de co-emergir nos movimentos habilita e sustenta o processo criativo, uma vez que na dança, o artista conta com o próprio corpo para desenvolver seu trabalho de interpretação e criação. Esse processo de criação deve contar, por parte do artista, com uma atitude baseada na percepção do equilíbrio do seu corpo, nas suas escolhas e nas qualidades inerentes da reestruturação equilíbrio/desequilíbrio no movimento e no desenho coreográfico. A aplicação desta pesquisa foi realizada no entrelaçamento de três vias, as quais consideramos essenciais: laboratórios práticos (vivência específica da teoria por meio do Método BMC), de criação (desenvolvimento de uma coreografia) e pelo estudo da obra do pintor Paul Klee, que contribuiu como alicerce poético/imagético ao processo coreográfico. / Abstract: This research aims, through the movement principles of the Body-Mind Centering® (BMC) method developed by Bonnie Bainbridge Cohen, at studying the Vestibular System and its connections with body balance. It researches its possible contributions regarding the motor development and its qualitative implications in gestures and actions towards acting and creation in performing arts. Since body balance is due to the interaction of three systems: somatosensory, visual and vestibular, the Body-Mind Centering® method is realized as relevant in this study, as its principles provide an anatomic experience of different body systems, favoring the recognition of the vestibular system action in motion. This leads to understanding how we wisely cover the senses in the body, and how these senses relate to perception and motion development. This research is intended to be able to elucidate how BMC can interfere in learning the way the actions are coded allowing one to also realize that new ways to co-emerge in the movements enables and supports the creative system, since in dance, the artist counts on the proper body to develop his or her interpretation and creation work. This creation process must count, by the artist, on an attitude based on his/her body's balance perception, on his/her choices and on the inherent qualities of balance/unbalance restructuring in motion and choreographic design. The application of this research has been achieved in the three-way interlacement, which we consider essential: practical laboratories (specific experience of theory by means of BMC Method), of creation (development of a choreography) and by studying painter Paul Klee's work, which has contributed as a poetic/imagetic foundation to the choreographic process. / Doutorado / Artes Cenicas / Doutor em Artes

Thesis (Ph. D.)--UCLA, 2008. / Vita. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 443-456).

Les symptômes de conversion hystérique, qui se définissent comme une atteinte fonctionnelle des fonctions motrices et/ou sensorielles sans que l’on puisse en donner une causalité physiologique, posent une énigme à l’explication scientifique et médicale. Cette étude se focalise plus particulièrement sur les paralysies motrices hystériques où les investigations neurologiques récentes sont plus nombreuses et bien documentées. À partir de cette problématique, les représentations des rapports psyché/soma sont interrogées et comparées dans les champs des neurosciences et de la psychanalyse.Dans les neurosciences, les rapports soma/psyché peuvent être ramenés à des conceptions monistes de type physicaliste, qui font du psychisme un épiphénomène issu du traitement de l’information dans les réseaux neuronaux (position qualifiée d’éliminationiste), ou bien à des conceptions dualistes qui s’ignorent plus ou moins suivant les chercheurs.La perspective du nouage borroméen du dernier Lacan, quant à la structure du parlêtre (nouage RSI), nous permettent de montrer les limites des représentations scientifiques (imaginaro-symbolique) de l’être parlant qui n’intègrent pas les dimensions du réel, du symbolique et de l’imaginaire. / Hysterical conversions symptoms, which are defined as functional stoke of sensory and/or motor functions without known physiological causality, ask a serious riddle to scientific and medical theory. This studie is focused on hysterical motor paralysis where neurological investigations are more recents and numerous. Starting from this point, body mind representations are interrogated and compared in the fields of neurosciences and psychoanalysis.In neurosciences, the body mind problem can be reduce to monist physicalist conception, in which psyche is an epiphenomenon stem from information processing in neural networks (this position is called eliminationnism), or can be reduce to differents dualists conceptions which are more or less explicited, depending of autors.The last Lacan’view of borromean knot, which refer to the « parlêtre »’s structure (RSI knot), allow us to show that scientifics représentations (imaginaro-symbolic representations) of human are limited because they don’t take real, symbolic and imaginary registers into consideration.

Syftet med studien är att öka elevers materialförståelse för olika textilier och förbättra deras förmåga att fatta självständiga samt välgrundade beslut utifrån det de vill skapa. Följande frågeställningar utgår undersökningen ifrån: Vad är grundläggande materialkännedom i textilslöjd för grundskoleelever?Hur kan slöjdlärare öka elevers materialförståelse i textilslöjd? Utgångspunkten för studien har sin grund i en övningsuppgift inom materialkännedom som jag genomförde med åk 9 i textilslöjd under VFU. Metoden i denna undersökning påminner om en learning study med ett planerat undervisningsinnehåll som inbjuder deltagarna attt aktilt utforska olika textilier utifrån ett body-mindperspektiv. Avslutningsvis genomförs en kunskapskontroll med frågesportspelet Kahoot1 för att ta reda på vad deltagarna tagit med sig. Till den första frågeställningen har jag sammanställt frågeformulär från två slöjdlärare och till andra frågeställningen har resultatet i Kahoot analyserats utifrån två analyskriterier som beskriver svårighetsgrad och kunskapsutveckling.De allra flesta textilslöjdslärare arbetar inte med materiallära som ett eget ämne utan tar upp det när de upplever det passande. Materiallära behöver dock inte endast presenteras som något teoretiskt där eleverna blir passiva lyssnare till olika textila termer. Genom att som lärare ha en systematik och konsekvent lyfta in materialläran kan det bidra till en ökad medvetenhet hos eleverna, särskilt i en tid när miljö- och hållbarhetsfrågor är mycket aktuella.

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The aim of this thesis is to introduce BMC approach in relation to other body-oriented psychotherapies, to characterise its principles and techniques, the format of therapy and to analyze and assess it from a point of view of the basic questions of scientific validity of a psychotherapeutic modality. Further in this thesis we summarize the bodily anchored experiencing theory. The empirical part of this thesis is a quantitative study of relation of body awareness, depressive experiencing and the satisfaction with life. We also studied a relationship among body awareness and socio-demographical characteristics of respondents. We ascertained some statistically significant correlations pointing towards a link between the ability of body awareness and depressive experiencing and also with satisfaction with life. The findings of this empirical study point towards the usefulness of further systematical developing of the body awareness construct.

Introduktion: Långvarig smärta påverkar uppemot 30% av världens befolkning och tar upp stora resurser inom hälso- och sjukvården. Långvarig smärta påverkar individen på flera nivåer där biopsykosociala interventioner har visat sig vara mest effektiva vid behandling. Det finns dock brist på insatser som kan användas i primärvården.  Syfte: Att utforska hur personer med långvarig smärta har upplevt rehabiliteringsprocessen i ett gruppträningskoncept i primärvård som kombinerar både psykologiska och fysioterapeutiska metoder.  Metod: Semistrukturerade intervjuer gjordes med elva deltagare (kvinnor 51-68 år) som deltagit i gruppträningen de senaste sex månaderna relaterat till långvarig smärta med eller utan samsjuklighet. Urvalet var strategiskt och analys gjordes med grundad teori enligt Charmaz.  Resultat: Analysen genererade en teoretisk modell och fem kategorier. Huvudkategorin – lära sig nya sätt att leva med smärta – en förändringsprocess i trygg miljö, illustrera genom tre olika sammanhang som har haft betydelse för deltagarnas rehabiliteringsprocess, 1) ett inre cirkulärt sammanhang, 2) vårdmiljön och 3) friskvården och sociokulturella sammanhanget.  Slutsats: Studien tillhandahåller en ökad förståelse för hur en rehabiliteringsprocess upplevs av personer med långvarig smärta som deltagit i ett gruppträningskoncept i primärvården. Studien belyser vårdens roll i att stödja och inge trygghet för att främja en förändringsprocessen. Studien uppmärksammar även hur psykosociala faktorer kan hindra personer med långvarig smärta från att upprätthålla motivation till att träna och ta sig ut till friskvården på egen hand. Framtida studier behövs som studerar gruppträningen i relation till andra behandlingsinterventioner. / Introduction: Chronic pain affects up to 30% of the world’s population and takes up large resources in healthcare. Chronic pain affects the individual on several levels where biopsychosocial interventions have been shown to be most effective in treatment. However, there is a lack of interventions that can be used in primary healthcare.  Aim: To explore how people with chronic pain have experienced the rehabilitation process in a group training concept in primary healthcare that combines both psychological and physiotherapeutic methods.  Method: Semi-structured interviews were conducted with eleven participants (women 51-68 years) who had participated in the group training related to chronic pain with or without comorbidity. The selection was strategic and analysis was done with grounded theory according to Charmaz.  Results: The analysis generated a theoretical model and five categories. The core category – learning new ways of livning with pain – a change process in safe environment, is illustrated through three different contexts that have been important for the participants’ rehabilitation process, 1) an inner circular context, 2) the health care context and 3) the wellness and socio-cultural context.  Conclusion: The study provides an increased understanding of how a rehabilitation process is experienced by people with chronic pain. It highlights the role of health care in supporting a change process and it draws attention to how psychosocial factors can prevent people with chronic pain from maintaining motivation to exercise and get out to wellness training. Future studies are needed that examine the group training in relation to other treatment interventions.

[pt] A presente pesquisa parte do pressuposto de que vivemos um momento ímpar de transformação planetária, no qual está evidenciada a crise do Antropoceno, e que para expandir o horizonte das formas de pensar, de imaginar e de sentir, visando uma reconstrução do eixo da vida no planeta, é urgente valorizar as dimensões sensíveis do corpo como alternativas às abordagens objetificantes perpetradas pelas tradições epistemológicas ocidentais racionalistas, colonizadoras e capitalistas que nos conduziram até aqui. Tomando como eixo central a abordagem somática de anatomia experiencial Body-Mind Centering, a pesquisa se propõe a pensar alguns princípios advindos de suas práticas, em diálogo com reflexões teóricas de pensadoras contemporâneas, a partir de uma metodologia difrativa, tal qual proposta por Donna Haraway (2004, 2019) e Karen Barad (2007, 2012, 2017). A questão investigada versa sobre como uma poética da matéria corpórea pode contribuir para o pensamento e para a arte contemporâneas comprometidas com a tarefa de gerar uma postura-ação micropolítica de reconfiguração das potências de presença e de atuação do corpo com o meio ambiente, tanto na cena quanto na vida. A pesquisa é teórico-prática e se propõe a investigar as noções de saber celular e de performatividade da matéria, relacionando simpoieticamente insights brotados de práticas pessoais, com relatos de experiências e ressonâncias criativas geradas nos Laboratórios Performativos de Anatomia Sensível (oferecidos em 2020 e 2021), e com abordagens da física quântica, da biologia, das somáticas, da dança e das ciências sociais. A tese pretende, através do jogo entre esses diferentes registros de escrita, fabular uma poética do Body-Mind Centering, entendido como uma metodologia de fabulação especulativa do corpo. / [en] This research is based on the assumption that we re living in an unparalleled moment of planetary transformation, where a crisis of the Anthropocene becomes evident, and that, to expand our thinking, imagining, and feeling horizons, intending to rebuild the axis of life on this planet, it s urgent to value the body s sensitive dimensions as alternatives to the objectifying approaches perpetrated by rationalist, colonizing, and capitalist Western epistemological traditions that have brought us here. Using as its core the somatic approach of Body-Mind Centering experiential anatomy, this research intends to consider some principles born from its practices, in dialogue with theoretical reflections by contemporary thinkers, through diffractive methodology, as proposed by Donna Haraway (2004, 2019) and Karen Barad (2007, 2012, 2017). The issue investigated here deals with how a physical matter poetics can contribute to contemporary thought and art that is committed to the task of generating a micropolitical action-posture to reconfigure a body s presence and action powers in regards to the environment, both on stage and in life. The research is theoretical-practical, and intends to investigate the notions of cellular knowledge and the performativity of matter, sympoietically connecting insights stemming from personal practice to experience reports and creative resonance generated in the Laboratórios Performativos de Anatomia Sensível [Sensitive Anatomy Performance Workshops] (offered in 2020 and 2021), as well as perspectives from quantum physics, biology, somatics, dance and social sciences. Through the interplay of these different writing registers, the dissertation attempts to fabulate a type of Body-Mind Centering poetics, understood as a methodology for speculative body fabulation.