<i>The Body</i> in <i>Focusing</i>

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  • Hirano Tomoko
    Kansai Medical University, School of Medicine, Department of Psychology
  • Ikemi Akira
    Kansai University, Graduate School of Psychology

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  • フォーカシングと〈からだ〉
  • フォーカシング ト 〈 カラダ 〉

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<p>This paper discusses Focusing and the body. Focusing, ――developed by the American philosopher and psychotherapist Eugene Gendlin――is a process of explicating the felt sense, a bodily feel of one’s situations which is not yet formed into words or concepts. Explicating the felt sense with linguistic and symbolic articulations generates novel meanings. The meaning of the body in Focusing, as well as the process of how new meanings are generated, is illustrated through a hypothetical clinical vignette. The paper then discusses how the felt sense is situationally lived and how it is an implying of further steps of living. The authors conclude the discussion by touching upon their views of body/mind and of subject/object.</p>

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