Ethics and body Politics:: interdisciplinary possibilities for embodied psychotherapeutic practice and research

Beatrice Allegranti

doi:10.1080/03069885.2011.621712

Ethics and body Politics: interdisciplinary possibilities for embodied psychotherapeutic practice and research

Beatrice Allegranti

School of Psychology

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Abstract

Ethical approaches to practice and research in counselling and arts/psychothera- pies demand an urgent attention to body politics. Bodies are not neutral; gender, sexuality, ethnicity and class are socio-political aspects that shape our mental, emotional and physical selves and inform our ethical values. Drawing from the author’s embodied practice as interdisciplinary practitioner-researcher, the aim of this paper is to examine the inseparability of ethics and bodies and explore how autobiographical, relational and political aspects of our selves-in-motion give rise to and build upon ‘ethically important moments’. The paper concludes with expanding possibilities; that highlighting ethical tensions within the lived experiences of bodies-in-motion allows for politically progressive approaches to practice that reflect the emerging paradigm shift of a post-Cartesian and interdisciplinary age.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	487-500
Journal	BRITISH JOURNAL OF GUIDANCE & COUNSELLING
Volume	39
Issue number	5
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1080/03069885.2011.621712
Publication status	Published - 2011

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