Embodied Coordination and Psychotherapeutic Outcome: Beyond Direct Mappings

García, Enara; Paolo, Ezequiel A. Di

doi:10.3389/fpsyg.2018.01257

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“…Here, slowing down as a joint attention mechanism is particularly highlighted when participants don't see their own body since their own kinesthetic "feedback"integrates the movement of the partner. Overall, we favor the hypothesis according to which slower movement might have facilitated movement coordination, which in turn strengthens socioaffective connection (with a positive valence in our experiment and in most studies available in the literature, although it can also lead to stronger connection of an opposite valence; see Di Paolo and De Jaegher, 2012;García and Di Paolo, 2018). Such a hypothesis shall be tested more specifically in future experiments, in particular with the aim of disentangling the pace of movement and the similarity of velocity, which are highly correlated in our preliminary data.…”

Section: Behavioral Coupling and Lived Experiencessupporting

confidence: 68%

[Re]moving Bodies – A Shared Diminished Reality Installation for Exploring Relational Movement

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In this article we explore an epistemic approach we name dis/embodiment and introduce “Articulations,” an interdisciplinary project bringing together Virtual Reality (VR) designers, cognitive scientists, dancers, anthropologists, and human–machine interaction specialists. According to Erin Manning, our sense of self and other emerges from processes of bodying and relational movement (becoming oneself by moving in relation with the world). The aim of the project is to exploit the potential of multi-person VR in order to explore the intersubjective dynamics of relational movement and bodying, and to do so with scientific, artistic and therapeutic purposes in mind. To achieve this bridge, we bring up a novel paradigm we name “Shared Diminished Reality”. It consists in using minimalist representation to instantiate users’ bodies in the virtual space. Instead of using humanoid avatars or full body skeletons, we reduce the representation of the moving bodies to three spheres whose trajectories reflect the tracking of the head and the two wrists. This “diminished”virtual rendition of the body-in-movement, we call dis/embodiment. It provides a simple but clear experience of one’s own responsive movement in relation to the world and other bodies. It also allows for subtle manipulations of bodies’ perceptual and cross-perceptual feedback and simplifies the tracking and the analysis of movements. After having introduced the epistemic framework, the basic architecture, and the empirical method informing the installation, we present and discuss, as a proof-of-concept, some data collected in a situated experiment at a science-art event. We investigate motion patterns observed in different experimental conditions (in which participants either could or could not see the representation of their own hands in the virtual space) and their relation with subjective reports collected. We conclude with reflection on further possibilities of our installation in exploring bodying and relational movement.

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Section: Behavioral Coupling and Lived Experiencessupporting

confidence: 68%

[Re]moving Bodies – A Shared Diminished Reality Installation for Exploring Relational Movement

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“…These multiple kinds of bodily resonance and other forms of intercorporeality (Fuchs & De Jaegher, 2009) serve as the primary way by which participants perceive each other and together generate meanings in the interaction, with reflective, dialogic, and other gestural engagements relying on this basic pre-reflective substrate. The idea of participatory sense-making suggests that not only the presence but also the particular time-course of such intercorporeal synergies contributes to building the therapeutic alliance and processes of change (Garc ıa & Di Paolo, 2018;Koole & Tschacher, 2016).…”

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Embodiment in online psychotherapy: A qualitative study

2021

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As a result of the COVID-19 pandemic, many therapists and patients have been required to switch to online sessions in order to continue their treatments. Online psychotherapy has become increasingly popular, and although its efficacy seems to be similar to face-toface encounters, its capacity to support the implicit nonverbal and embodied aspects of the therapeutic relationship has been questioned and remains understudied. Objectives. To study how embodied and intersubjective processes are modified in online psychotherapy sessions.Design. Taking the enactive concept of participatory sense-making as a guiding thread, we designed an interpretative phenomenological analysis to examine the experiences of embodiment in online therapy.Methods. We conducted phenomenological semi-structured interviews with patients and therapists who have recently switched from face-to-face encounters to online modality.Results. Adjustments in verbal and nonverbal behavior, gaze behavior, management of silences, and displacements of non-intentional and pre-reflective patterns onto reflective ones are reported as necessary to compensate for changes introduced in the online modality.Conclusions. From an enactive perspective, such adaptations manifest regulatory processes aimed at sustaining interactive dynamics and coordinating the primordial tension between relational and individual norms in social encounters.This is an open access article under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs License, which permits use and distribution in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited, the use is non-commercial and no modifications or adaptations are made.

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“…Following García and Di Paolo (2018) and Parada and Rossi (2018), the psychotherapeutic relationship can be seen as fertile grounds for human interaction research and two-person neuroscience. Thus, a hypothetical example could be drawn using psychotherapy, where-traditionally-a therapist and a patient gather together in order to build a therapeutic relationship.…”

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confidence: 99%