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Article Excerpt
Todres, L. (2007). Embodied inquiry;: Phenomenological touchstones for research, psychotherapy and spirituality. Basingstoke, UK: Palgrave Macmillan, 224 pp., ISBN 978-0-230-51775-7, $ 74.95 (hardcover).
Reviewed by Steen Hailing, Professor of Psychology, Seattle University
In this innovative and readable exploration of research, psychotherapy, and spirituality, Professor Les Todres helps us to appreciate anew our fundamental embodied connection with the world in which we live. Moreover, he gives us principles and methods for drawing more deeply upon this connection. Following in the tradition of the philosopher and psychologist Eugene Gendlin, Todres makes it plain that concepts such as mind and body and language and experience should be thought of in relational and dialectical rather than oppositional terms. At one point he writes, "Sometimes, the bodily depth of what one has lived through is 'more than words can say.' Yet, such experience 'looks' for words." This brief statement goes to the heart of what his book is about. It speaks profoundly to the depth of our embodied experience. The...
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