AI and Gestalt therapy
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Concept

Second-person perspective

Finally, the second-person perspective describes how the client presents themselves physically, in the encounter in the here and now. In this perspective, one’s own body reveals something about the other person

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

Related concepts

Self-resonanceIntercorporealityI-Thou / I-It

Occurrences in the text

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

    … m the outside, which is necessary for categorisations, findings and testing. Finally, the second-person perspective describes how the client presents themselves physically, in the encounter in the here and …

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

    ’The second-person perspective [...] understands mental illness not as an inner world, but as an embodied process that m …