The role of embodiment and intersubjectivity in clinical reasoning
Gallagher, Shaun and Payne, Helen
(2015)
The role of embodiment and intersubjectivity in clinical reasoning.
Body, Movement and Dance in Psychotherapy, 10 (1).
pp. 68-78.
ISSN 1743-2979
Embodied approaches to cognition have been recently challenging standard views in philosophy of mind and the cognitive sciences. We propose that these embodied cognition views hold implications for clinical reasoning. This article examines the role of embodiment and intersubjective interactions between patient and therapist in clinical reasoning in psychotherapy. It offers a phenomenologically informed enactive conception of clinical reasoning and characterises it as an ongoing embodied, embedded and intersubjective process, rather than a strictly mental process in the head of the therapist
| Item Type | Article |
|---|---|
| Identification Number | 10.1080/17432979.2014.980320 |
| Additional information | Date of Acceptance: 20/10/2014 |
| Keywords | body-as-subject, embodied cognition, enactivism, intersubjectivity, phenomenology, psychiatry and mental health, clinical psychology |
| Date Deposited | 15 May 2025 12:51 |
| Last Modified | 25 Feb 2026 00:33 |