What if philosophy could solve the psychological puzzle of trauma?
Embodied Trauma and Healing argues just that, suggesting that one
might be needed in order to understand the other. The book
demonstrates how the body-mind problem that haunted Descartes was
addressed by phenomenologists, whilst also proposing that the human
experience is lived subjectively as embodied consciousness. Throughout
this book, the author suggests that the phenomenological tools that
are used to explore the body can also be an effective way to discuss
the physical and mental aspects of embodied trauma. Drawing on the
work of Paul Ricœur, Maurice Merleau-Ponty and Emmanuel Lévinas, the
book outlines a phenomenological approach to the embodied and
relational subject. It offers a reading of embodied trauma that can
connect it to wider conversations in psychological underpinnings of
trauma through Peter Levine’s somatic research and Bessel van der
Kolk’s embodied remembering. Connecting to the analytic tradition,
the book suggests that phenomenology can unify both language-based and
body-based therapeutic practice. It also presents a compelling
discussion that ties the embodied experience of relation in trauma to
the wider causal factors of social suffering and relational rupture,
intergenerational trauma and the trauma of land, as informed by
phenomenology. Embodied Trauma and Healing is essential reading for
researchers within the fields of philosophy, psychology and medical
humanities for it actively engages with contemporary configurations of
trauma theory and recent research developments in healing and mental
disorder diagnosis.
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Critical Conversations on the Concept of Health
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ISBN
9781000544787
Publisert
2022
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Vendor
Routledge
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Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Digital bok
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