Hi,
I'm interested in Todres use of Gendlin's work which itself engages with
Merleau-Ponty.
Don - AFAIK you've had good words for Gendlin's work in the past.
Doesn't Todres apply it usefully?
Anyone else out there working with or towards phenomenological embodied
methodologies?
Cheers!
Adrian
Sabine Koch wrote:
> Les Todres: This does not seem to be mainstream psychological
> discourse at all...
> Thanks for discussing it anyway!
>
> Sabine Koch
>
> Don Hanlon Johnson schrieb:
>> Dear Adrian,
>>
>> I have had some contact with the group of people engaged in this kind
>> of work and personally find it uninteresting. Because it is done
>> under the pressures of 'academic psychology,' it lacks the radical
>> turn to experience that one finds in Husserl, Heidegger, and
>> contemporaries who are taking the radical path unfettered by
>> mainstream psychological discourse.
>>
>> Best wishes, Don
>> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
>> Don Hanlon Johnson
>> www.donhanlonjohnson.com
>>
>>
>>
>> On 9/29/07 11:27 AM, "Adrian Harris" <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>>
>> > Hi,
>> >
>> > anyone familier with this?
>> > Les Todres, "Embodied Enquiry: Phenomenological Touchstones for
>> > Research, Psychotherapy and Spirituality", Macmillan Publishers.
>> > Published 31 July 2007 and looks very relevant to my work.
>> >
>> > *//*One review comment from the book site:
>> >
>> > 'Les Todres’ Embodied Enquiry is a masterful integration of
>> > phenomenological research methods and Eugene Gendlin’s Focusing
>> > technique. Applicable to a wide range of qualitative research methods,
>> > Todres provides qualitative and human science researchers an embodied
>> > approach to data collection, analysis, and communication that accesses
>> > and invites the deep resources of the human psyche.'
>> > Rosemarie Anderson, Professor, Institute of Transpersonal Psychology,
>> > author of Transpersonal Research Methods for the Social Sciences
>> >
>> > More:*/
>> > /*http://www.palgrave.com/products/title.aspx?PID=278601
>> >
>> > Best,
>> > Adrian
>
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