First came across Fuchs during nursing research into schizophrenia as a disorder of embodiment. People often ask what alternatives there might be to contemporary psychiatry and psychotherapy, and I feel that the under-researched field that Fuchs (and others) are pursuing and have pursued may be able to offer candidate answers to that question.Body-oriented therapies remain marginalised in part for political reasons and in part because they attach themselves or are associated with scientifically ungrounded traditions. Although this is beginning to change it remains unlikely that therapies of embodiment are going to become popular soon. For instance, despite having been designed in the 1970s I can’t find a single trial of effectiveness/efficacy/etc. of Roberto Friere’s Soma Therapy.This despite the advances of the various forms of embodied cognitive science and neurophenomenology. It forces the question of whether this is down to a delay in application of these fields or invested power and capital interests?
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coming from the evil world of “managed” healthcare my pet theory is that cognitive-behavioral models are all too well suited to the kinds of accounting procedures used by money-managers, human-beings have been effectively reduced to human “resources”.
http://backdoorbroadcasting.net/2011/06/peter-miller-the-calculating-self/
That’s part of what I mean by capital interests. There is a reason I specifically mentioned Soma Therapy- it is explicitly aligned to anti-authoritarianism.
yeah was just adding a bit of local shading, the hasty demise of humanist/existential psychologies in the USA came via a two pronged (behavioral-health-management & the-NewAge-Inc) capitalist/consumerist assault.
this is one of the few exceptions who isn’t out on the fringes:
http://www.yale.edu/PRCH/people/davidson.html