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Touched in sensation – moved by respiration
Author(s) -
Sviland Randi,
Råheim Målfrid,
Martinsen Kari
Publication year - 2012
Publication title -
scandinavian journal of caring sciences
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.678
H-Index - 66
eISSN - 1471-6712
pISSN - 0283-9318
DOI - 10.1111/j.1471-6712.2012.01024.x
Subject(s) - narrative , psychology , sensation , context (archaeology) , embodied cognition , phenomenology (philosophy) , psychoanalysis , psychotherapist , cognitive psychology , art , literature , history , epistemology , philosophy , archaeology
The aim of this theoretical article is to elaborate on the underpinning of Norwegian psychomotor physiotherapy (NPMP). With a narrative and hermeneutic point of departure, we explore the unfolding of a 10‐year‐long treatment by analysing a particular narrative from this treatment context in relation to some foundational perspectives on movement, sensation and time. A woman in her late thirties suffering from muscular tensions and pain, depression, anxiety and anorexia, came for NPMP. The investigation of her treatment experience is based on the journal written by her physiotherapist and first author of this article. We suggest that new experiences in movement and sensation as well as changes in movement patterns can contribute to retuning in sensation and restructuring of narrative time. Feeding the fictional space and narrative fantasy with new experiences in movement and sensation can help counteracting delusional ideas and assist changes, supporting embodied narrative identity. Ingrid’s experience is discussed in the light of Trygve Braatøy’s understanding of muscular functions, Knud E Løgstrup’s phenomenology of sensation and Paul Ricouer’s narrative time.