Towards living within my body and accepting the past: a case study of embodied narrative identity.
Med Health Care Philos
; 21(3): 363-374, 2018 Sep.
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| ID: mdl-29098562
This narrative case study, created from several qualitative sources, portrays a young woman's life experiences and an eight yearlong therapy process with Norwegian Psychomotor Physiotherapy (NPMP). It is analyzed retrospectively from an analytical angle, where NPMP theory is expanded with Løgstrup's phenomenology of sensation and Ricoeur's narrative philosophy. Understanding Rita's narrative through this window displayed some foundational phenomena in a singular way, illuminating embodied experiences in inter-subjective relationships in movement, sensation and time entwined. It illustrates how traumatic life experiences may cause pain, suffering and ruptured narratives with fragmented physical and sensuous reactions, chaos and loss of temporal coherence with consequences for a person's sense of identity. Rita's narrative also illuminates how intersubjective interaction has healing potentials when there is time and space for trust to emerge and to support new bodily-based experiences. Embodied sensuous experiences in present time may help clarify past and present and support chronology in narration and the sense of identity. With this exemplary case study, we argue that Løgstrup's and Ricoeur's thinking may add valuable perspectives to understanding suffering and healing processes in the field of embodied therapies like NPMP.
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01-internacional
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MEDLINE
Asunto principal:
Modalidades de Fisioterapia
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Enfermedades Musculoesqueléticas
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Narración
Tipo de estudio:
Observational_studies
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Qualitative_research
Límite:
Adult
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Female
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Humans
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En
Revista:
Med Health Care Philos
Asunto de la revista:
ETICA
Año:
2018
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Article
País de afiliación:
Noruega
Pais de publicación:
Países Bajos