A Feel for the Organism: Cultural and Methodological Contexts of Trauma Psychology from a Somatic-Energetic Perspective

Philip M. Helfaer

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A Feel for the Organism: Cultural and Methodological Contexts of Trauma Psychology from a Somatic-Energetic Perspective

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Seiten:: 217–227

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1163/9781848880856_024

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The author, an experienced practitioner and teacher of bioenergetic analysis, a therapy based on a somatic-energetic point of view, considers this perhaps the most appropriate approach to work with sequelae of traumatic stress, addressing as it does mind, body, emotions, and energetic states. He finds a peculiar split in the therapeutic world, wherein virtually all institutions (medical, academic, veterans), do not utilize somatic-energetic work, while at the same time increasing numbers of practitioners and experts outside these institutions do recommend somatic-energetic approaches. He states this split has meaning. Exploration of these meanings reveals that cultural and sociological aspects of institutional life and of the society play the largest role in determining treatment modality, including what comes to be considered ‘evidence based’ treatments. The author suggests that attitudes and approaches based on thinking and perceiving influenced by dissociation and society’s capacity to recognize and deal with it, the very phenomena being studied, underlie a restrictive way of examining the actual phenomena. He states that what is needed is the methodological underlay characterized in biology as ‘a feel for the organism,’ based on careful, caring, detailed observation. Naturalistic observation is missing from many approaches: it is inherent to the somatic-energetic point of view. Therefore what is required to institute this practice more widely in institutional life involves deep changes, socially and culturally, within the institutions, their values, and the culture of their professed scientific methodologies.

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Traumatic Imprints: Performance, Art, Literature and Theoretical Practice

ISBN:: 9781848880856

Verleger:: Brill

Print-Publikationsdatum:: 15 Apr 2011

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