Let's Get Personal, Let's Get Physical: Approaching the Bodily Self in Clinical Interactions.
Psychopathology January 1, 2022 Constanze Hausteiner-Wiehle, Peter Henningsen 6 citations
Medicine and psychotherapy typically treat the body as a biological machine or ignore it entirely, focusing on genes, brain scans, or personality and cognition. However, the intersection where being a person and having a body—the bodily self—is crucial for illness, health, and recovery. This paper briefly summarizes embodiment and enactivism, then suggests practical approaches for clinical diagnostics that integrate the bodily self.