AI and Gestalt therapy
DE

Concept

Self-resonance

One’s own physicality is an important diagnostic tool in the therapeutic process. This ‘self-resonance’ refers to the awareness of one’s own physical reaction to what the client brings into the therapeutic space: tension, warmth, tiredness, a lump in the throat.

Excerpted verbatim from the thesis · Ch. 3.1 — 3.1 Embodied & Emotive: Awareness and bodily self-resonance

Related concepts

AwarenessLeib / lived bodySecond-person perspectiveResonance

Occurrences in the text

  1. Ch. 1.5 1.5 Methodological Approach and Structure of the Thesis

    … ly defined relational qualities: without a biological body, neither intersubjectivity nor self-resonance is possible (4.1), and without its own boundary of contact, no encounter takes place, but …

  2. Ch. 3.1 3.1 Embodied & Emotive: Awareness and bodily self-resonance

    One’s own physicality is an important diagnostic tool in the therapeutic process. This ‘self-resonance’ refers to the awareness of one’s own physical reaction to what the client brings into th …

  3. Ch. 3.1 3.1 Embodied & Emotive: Awareness and bodily self-resonance

    Awareness and bodily self-resonance train perception, and in the person-to-person encounter, through embracing and becoming a …

  4. Ch. 4 4 The ontological limits of AI

    … ts itself in two stages: without a biological body, there is no inter-corporeality and no self-resonance (4.1). Without one’s own boundary of contact, there is no encounter, but only resistance- …

  5. Ch. 6.1 6.1 Interpretation of the results

    … apists develop a reflective, physically felt capacity for resonance through awareness and self-resonance in relation to themselves. And in therapy itself, the aim is to foster precisely this abi …

  6. Ch. 6.2 6.2 Recommendations for Action

    … quired retrospectively, but arises through self-experience and supervision. Awareness and self-resonance work therefore do not belong on the periphery of training, but at its very centre.