Book contents
- Time and Body
- Endorsements for Time and Body
- Time and Body
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Additional material
- Contents
- Figures
- Contributors
- 1 Introduction – Time and Body
- 2 Time, the Body, and the Other in Phenomenology and Psychopathology
- Part I Body and Time: General Aspects
- 3 The Body – Another
- 3.1 Commentary on “The Body – Another: Phenomenological and Psychoanalytic Perspectives”
- 4 The Heart of Darkness of the Living Body
- 4.1 Commentary on “The Heart of Darkness of the Living Body”
- 5 Microphenomenology of Chronicity in Psychosomatic Diseases
- 5.1 Commentary on “Microphenomenology of Chronicity in Psychosomatic Diseases: Diabetes, Anorexia, and Schizophrenia”
- 6 Time and Embodiment in the Process of Psychotherapy: A Dynamical Systems Perspective
- 6.1 Commentary on “Time and Embodiment in the Process of Psychotherapy: A Dynamical Systems Perspective”The Musicality of Human Interaction
- Part II Grief and Anxiety
- Part III Borderline Personality and Eating Disorders
- Part IV Depression, Schizophrenia, and Dementia
- Index
- References
6 - Time and Embodiment in the Process of Psychotherapy: A Dynamical Systems Perspective
from Part I - Body and Time: General Aspects
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 30 October 2020
Book contents
- Time and Body
- Endorsements for Time and Body
- Time and Body
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Additional material
- Contents
- Figures
- Contributors
- 1 Introduction – Time and Body
- 2 Time, the Body, and the Other in Phenomenology and Psychopathology
- Part I Body and Time: General Aspects
- 3 The Body – Another
- 3.1 Commentary on “The Body – Another: Phenomenological and Psychoanalytic Perspectives”
- 4 The Heart of Darkness of the Living Body
- 4.1 Commentary on “The Heart of Darkness of the Living Body”
- 5 Microphenomenology of Chronicity in Psychosomatic Diseases
- 5.1 Commentary on “Microphenomenology of Chronicity in Psychosomatic Diseases: Diabetes, Anorexia, and Schizophrenia”
- 6 Time and Embodiment in the Process of Psychotherapy: A Dynamical Systems Perspective
- 6.1 Commentary on “Time and Embodiment in the Process of Psychotherapy: A Dynamical Systems Perspective”The Musicality of Human Interaction
- Part II Grief and Anxiety
- Part III Borderline Personality and Eating Disorders
- Part IV Depression, Schizophrenia, and Dementia
- Index
- References
Summary
In this chapter, a quantitative approach to the exploration of psychotherapy is developed. Emphasizing the significance of time and the body for this specific type of social interaction, a dynamical modeling method is sketched, which is based on high-resolution time series. Such time series must allow mapping the processes at the time scale of seconds because consciousness resides in the here-and-now, in the present moment. Such nowness constitutes the core of the social exchange between therapist and client. The demand for high sampling rates can be satisfied with the help of measures of the embodied mind – the embodiment approach has shown that mental processes are reciprocally connected to bodily variables such as body movement and physiological signals. I present an example of time series of respiratory activity measured in a sample of psychotherapy sessions, from which the nonverbal synchrony and a signature of the present moment, the social present, can be derived.
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- Time and BodyPhenomenological and Psychopathological Approaches, pp. 104 - 116Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2020
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