Abstract
In this piece we will consider the work of Maurice Merleau-Ponty as it relates to critical psychology and also discuss the possibility of its use as a theoretical framework for empirical studies. We will focus specifically on Merleau-Ponty?s concepts of perception and embodiment and ask what these may add to perspectives within critical psychology. In terms of these concepts, Merleau-Ponty offers a radically different view of perception from that which is common in mainstream psychology, along with a radically different view of human embodiment. Given this, we believe that many of his ideas are important for critical psychology and could give it an alternative direction. Phenomenological perspectives are also of use in critical, empirical studies, and here we use the concepts of perception and embodiment to reassess the literature on anorexia nervosa. It is our contention that these concepts allow us to rethink the embodied nature of anorexia, particularly in terms of the way that the body is conceptualised in the clinical literature, but also the absence of a notion of the lived body from some feminist accounts.
Highlights
En este articulo nos proponemos recuperar el trabajo In this piece we will consider the work of Maurice de Merlau-Ponty como un instrumento válido para la Merleau-Ponty as it relates to critical psychology and elaboración de una psicología crítica ya sea en como discuss the possibility of its use as a theoretical referente teórico o en sus aplicaciones prácticas
In most texts in psychology we find that perception is viewed primarily as a phenomenon located in the individual, in the brain or the mind
The conceptions of eating disorders clearly have changed over time, from mythological conceptions to a mass industry on anorexia incorporating concepts from clinical psychology and medicine
Summary
Embodiment, Lived Experience and Anorexia: The Contribution of Phenomenology to a Critical Therapeutic Approach Jordi Sanz y Ian Burkitt. Clinicians are taking for granted that they, as medical scientists, have access to an unquestionable truth about the nature of a stable and unchanging external reality They are failing to understand that while there is an embodied perception of the world, this is lived from a situated perspective that is both individual (the person’s relation to the world and their experience of important life events) and socio-historical. While they are trying to build multidimensional models, these do not include the dimensions of the lived body, nor do they take account of the fact that the body lives in culture. Phenomenology would inquire into the anorectic’s perception of reality: what are the elements that make up her lived, embodied perception of reality?
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