Who is the Body? – the body as subject or object The character of this paper is partly a literature study and partly an empirical one. A philosophical, ontological level according to the French philosopher Maurice Merleau-Ponty is presented along with a theoretical level according to the neurologist Antonio R. Damasio and three different psychotherapeutic techniques, dance therapy influenced by Carl Jung, body psychotherapy and traditional verbal psychotherapy. The first part of the study forms the litterateur section and is presented as a background to the empirical study. The empirical part contain four interviews with a dance therapist, a body therapist, a verbal therapist and a scientist. The purpose of this study is to investigate the different therapeutic positions and their attitude towards the body / mind / soul problem. In the conclusion it shows how the bodily oriented therapies have a possibility to meet the hole lived body through interaction between client and therapist and the inner images that are created in the creative therapy forms give a potential to include the transpersonal in the therapeutic situation.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:UPSALLA1/oai:DiVA.org:uniarts-305 |
| Date | January 2005 |
| Creators | Johansson, Karin Erika |
| Publisher | Stockholms konstnärliga högskola, Institutionen för danspedagogik |
| Source Sets | DiVA Archive at Upsalla University |
| Language | Swedish |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Student thesis, info:eu-repo/semantics/bachelorThesis, text |
| Format | application/pdf |
| Rights | info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess |
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