Embodied resilience: A phenomenological perspective
- 12 August 2021
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- External Links |
- External Links 2021 |
- Elbers E.
- Published by The Author(s). Co-published by NISC Pty (Ltd) and Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group
- Keywords |
- affective touch |
- Body experience |
- Body image |
- cancer |
- Haptotherapy |
- IJHH |
- Mind-body therapy
Abstract
Background
From a phenomenological perspective, our body is the “from-which” we face the world. Vice versa, our body is affected by occurrences in our surroundings. Embodied resilience is understood as a quality of the dynamic relationships between our affected body and what happens in our surroundings.
