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RESEARCH PRODUCT
The Relational Mind in Couple Therapy : A Bateson-Inspired View of Human Life as an Embodied Stream
Markku PenttonenAnu KarvonenPetra Nyman-salonenJaakko SeikkulaVirpi-liisa Kykyrisubject
050103 clinical psychologySocial Psychologycouple therapyHuman liferuumiillisuusdialogismCouples TherapydialogisuusAdaptation Psychologicalautonominen hermostoHumans0501 psychology and cognitive sciencesSession (computer science)pariterapiata515embodimentCognitive scienceFocus (computing)Continuous interactionMind-Body Therapies05 social sciencesautonomic nervous systemClinical Psychology050902 family studiesEmbodied cognition0509 other social sciencesPsychologySocial Sciences (miscellaneous)Intersubjectivitydescription
Research on human intersubjectivity has found that humans participate in a dialogue throughout their life, and that this is manifested not only via language, but also nonverbally, with the entire body. Such an understanding of human life has brought into focus some basic systemic ideas concerning the human relational mind. For Gregory Bateson, the mind works as a system, formed from components that are in continuous interaction with each other. In our Relational Mind research project, we followed twelve couple therapy processes involving two therapists per session, looking at the ways in which the four participants attuned to each other with their bodies, including their autonomic nervous system activity. Using observations from the project, we here describe the ways through which the relational and embodied mind can be realized in a couple therapy setting.
| year | journal | country | edition | language |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2018-07-22 | Family Process |