Commentary: From Symptoms to Sensations: Moving Toward a Normal Psychology of Somatic Experiences in Youth

2019 ◽  
Vol 44 (7) ◽  
pp. 859-861 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lauren C Heathcote
Keyword(s):  
Somatic Experiences

Mothering, Migration, and Im/mobility in the Age of the Muslim Ban

2019 ◽  
Vol 8 (2) ◽  
pp. 35-43
Author(s):  
Courtney E. Cole
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Research ◽  
Mass Violence ◽  
Qualitative Researcher ◽  
Ongoing Relationship ◽  
And Migration ◽  
Somatic Experiences

In this essay, I consider issues of migration and im/mobility through experiences as a qualitative researcher of the aftermath of mass violence. In doing so, I consider how the progression of my scholarship has occurred in tandem with the development of my identity as a mother, and contemporary geopolitics, all of which implicate questions about migration and mobility. Attending to the embodied, somatic experiences of both movement and the process of qualitative research, I engage issues of identity, particularly gender, sexuality, race, and nationality. While not re/solving the tensions of qualitative research addressing im/mobility, I illustrate the ongoing relationship between motherhood, movement, and migration.

ARISTOPHANES VS TYPHON: CO(S)MIC RIVALRY, VOICE AND TEMPORALITY INKNIGHTS

Ramus ◽  
2014 ◽  
Vol 43 (1) ◽  
pp. 25-44 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mario Telò
Keyword(s):  
Essential Role ◽  
Fifth Century ◽  
Political Factions ◽  
Dramatic Performance ◽  
Definition Of ◽  
Somatic Experiences

Recent studies have analysed the essential role of interpoetic rivalry in Aristophanes' comic imagination. Zachary Biles has shown that ‘festival agonistics provide an underlying logic for the overall thematic design of individual plays’ and that ‘the plays can be treated as creative responses to the competitions.’ Aristophanes' dramatisation of comic competition has been viewed as a reflection of the struggles of political factions in late-fifth-century Athens or as an expression of a ‘rhetoric of self-promotion’ that builds the comic plot through the mutual borrowing of comic material (jokes, running gags). This paper suggests thatKnightspresents interpoetic rivalry as a conflict of embodied aesthetic modes. In this play, Aristophanes' tendentious definition of his comic self against his predecessor Cratinus results in opposed ways of conceptualising the sonic quality of dramatic performance and its material effects on the audience. The nexus of voice and temporality, which, as I argue, shapes the play's agonistic plot, equates the intergenerational duelling of Aristophanes' and Cratinus' political counterparts (the Sausage Seller and the older Paphlagon, respectively) to a contrast of somatic experiences grounded in sound.

(Re-)engaging touch as a tango dancer: An experimental framework for kinaesthetic listening1

2020 ◽  
Vol 12 (2) ◽  
pp. 207-228
Author(s):  
Raffaele Rufo
Keyword(s):  
Contemporary Dance ◽  
Separate Entity ◽  
Argentine Tango ◽  
Felt Sense ◽  
Dance Improvisation ◽  
Sense Of Touch ◽  
Somatic Experiences

This article explores how the felt sense of touch, as engaged through the enabling constraints of the Argentine tango duet, can facilitate an experience of kinaesthetic listening in the spaces emerging between the dancer’s inside and outside worlds. The author’s habitual perception of giving and receiving touch as a tango dancer is destabilized by framing a series of somatic experiences in settings where customary tango conditions and assumptions do not apply. This involves experimenting with methods and tools of inquiry borrowed from contact and contemporary dance improvisation. The article argues that when practiced as a form of kinaesthetic listening, tango is conducive to a process of sensing and feeling together. In this process, it becomes possible to be touched both physically and affectively by the movement impulses negotiated between the partners. This possibility unsettles the reductive idea of one’s body as a separate entity preceding the encounter.

Behavioral Affective and Somatic Experiences Scale—Parent Version

1994 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sean Phipps ◽  
Pamela S. Hinds ◽  
Susan Channell ◽  
Gay L. Bell
Keyword(s):  
Parent Version ◽  
Somatic Experiences

Living Shin

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Catherine A. Schaeffer
Keyword(s):  
Human Being ◽  
Dance Pedagogy ◽  
University Professor ◽  
Professional Dancer ◽  
Somatic Experiences

In this chapter, the author reflects on the ways that living Shin has enriched her work as a university professor, professional dancer, choreographer, and human being. She first talks about her history in somatic modalities of Ideokinesis, Laban, Keleman, and Hanna Somatics, along with their relation to Shin Somatics and how this work has benefited her professionally and personally. She then describes her applications of somatic knowledge to dance pedagogy, creating choreography, and the teaching and practice of yoga, healing, and wellness at Eastwest Somatics Institute. She also discusses her personal transformative somatic experiences and concludes by sharing key findings and insights that ground her in living Shin.

scholarly journals Does inappropriate behavior hurt or stink? The interplay between neural representations of somatic experiences and moral decisions

2020 ◽  
Vol 6 (42) ◽  
pp. eaat4390
Author(s):  
G. Sharvit ◽  
E. Lin ◽  
P. Vuilleumier ◽  
C. Corradi-Dell’Acqua
Keyword(s):  
Neural Activity ◽  
Ethical Dilemmas ◽  
Posterior Cingulate Cortex ◽  
Moral Judgments ◽  
Moral Cognition ◽  
Neural Representations ◽  
Moral Decisions ◽  
Sensory Qualities ◽  
Somatic Experiences

Embodied models suggest that moral judgments are strongly intertwined with first-hand somatic experiences, with some pointing to disgust, and others arguing for a role of pain/harm. Both disgust and pain are unpleasant, arousing experiences, with strong relevance for survival, but with distinctive sensory qualities and neural channels. Hence, it is unclear whether moral cognition interacts with sensory-specific properties of one somatic experience or with supramodal dimensions common to both. Across two experiments, participants evaluated ethical dilemmas and subsequently were exposed to disgusting (olfactory) or painful (thermal) stimulations of matched unpleasantness. We found that moral scenarios enhanced physiological and neural activity to subsequent disgust (but not pain), as further supported by an independently validated whole-brain signature of olfaction. This effect was mediated by activity in the posterior cingulate cortex triggered by dilemma judgments. Our results thus speak in favor of an association between moral cognition and sensory-specific properties of disgust.

scholarly journals The Body Responds

2020 ◽  
Vol 24 (1) ◽  
pp. 29-42
Author(s):  
Emma Green ◽  
Margot Solomon
Keyword(s):  
Anorexia Nervosa ◽  
The Body ◽  
Making Sense ◽  
Hermeneutic Approach ◽  
Somatic Experiences

The first author uses a hermeneutic approach to reflect on her somatic experiences with clients diagnosed with Anorexia Nervosa. Using poetry, imagery, and metaphor, as well as understandings drawn from the psychodynamic literature, she attempts to convey something of the nature of her journey towards making sense of her experiences. The second author was the supervisor of the first author’s dissertation, from which this article arose.

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