Abstract
The article presents different ways of dealing with the subject of the body and corporeality in the humanities, which can form the epistemiological and axiological basis in a reflection on the psycho- and physiotherapeutic relationship with patients, and confronts them with the results of two qualitative studies based on the grounded theory concerning exploration by women of their own body and experiencing their own corporeality, intimacy and touch in medical relations. The author shows that phenomenological philosophy, taking into account the concepts of “carnal self” and “presence of the embodied” that human knowledge always has a carnal character, is the most adequate for use in analyses regarding therapeutic interactions related to the body. Analysis of qualitative research on the process of realising your own corporeality in the cognitive-emotional dimension in the relationship with oneself and in the therapeutic relationship fully confirms the legitimacy of applying the grounded theory method in the study of phenomena regarding carnality and such values as gratitude, mindfulness, care, efficiency and autonomy emerge.
Highlights
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The outline of the research presented in this article indicates that the factors that influence the deepening of self-reflection regarding corporeality and the integration of the carnal Me with Me are borderline situations revealing our existence in a way that escapes objectivity, understood as a description of events in the subject’s world (Kolasa, 2010)
In the interactive context, such experiences as: maternal experience, body injuries, life-threatening diseases, physical exercise, ageing, positive sexual experiences in the period of maturity, nudity in contact with nature, and severe deprivation of the need for autonomy, maintenance of borders concerning intimacy and mindfulness for corporeality in medical relations were most clearly revealed. These are areas that remain open to phenomenological exploration in the subject of corporeality, both in research and theoretical dimensions
Summary
The article presents different ways of dealing with the subject of the body and corporeality in the humanities, which can form the epistemiological and axiological basis in a reflection on the psycho- and physiotherapeutic relationship with patients, and confronts them with the results of two qualitative studies based on the grounded theory concerning exploration by women of their own body and experiencing their own corporeality, intimacy and touch in medical relations1. Carnal Me is: “the way of experiencing oneself in one’s body with one’s sexuality and a set of specific bodily experiences – conscious and unconscious - that are reflected in the image of one’s body, which every subject possesses”
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