Ethics and body politics: interdisciplinary possibilities for embodied psychotherapeutic practice and research

Autor: Beatrice Allegranti
Rok vydání: 2011
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Zdroj: British Journal of Guidance & Counselling. 39:487-500
ISSN: 1469-3534
0306-9885
DOI: 10.1080/03069885.2011.621712
Popis: Ethical approaches to practice and research in counselling and arts/psychotherapies demand an urgent attention to body politics. Bodies are not neutral; gender, sexuality, ethnicity and class are socio-political aspects that shape our mental, emotional and physical selves and inform our ethical values. Drawing from the author's embodied practice as interdisciplinary practitioner-researcher, the aim of this paper is to examine the inseparability of ethics and bodies and explore how autobiographical, relational and political aspects of our selves-in-motion give rise to and build upon ‘ethically important moments’. The paper concludes with expanding possibilities; that highlighting ethical tensions within the lived experiences of bodies-in-motion allows for politically progressive approaches to practice that reflect the emerging paradigm shift of a post-Cartesian and interdisciplinary age.
Databáze: OpenAIRE
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