Interkinesthesia in psychotherapy: a resource for exploring body memories and learning new ways of making-a-body

Philipsen, Johanne S.; Katila, Julia

doi:10.1080/17432979.2021.1914731

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“…This microanalytic approach stems from a wide field of qualitative studies focused on the intercorporeal, multimodal, multisensorial, and other semiotic aspects of naturally occurring face-toface interactions (Streeck et al, 2011;Goodwin, 2018;Goodwin and Cekaite, 2018;Katila, 2018). Our co-operative and intercorporeal perspective on microanalysis draws on embodied and experienced understandings of human action, and it is especially helpful for the study of embodied resources, such as affect, touch and interkinesthetic sociality (see Katila and Philipsen, 2019;Katila and Raudaskoski, 2020;Katila and Turja, 2021;Philipsen and Katila, 2021). With videoanalysis, it is possible to analyze embodied, communicative aspects of interaction, and to determine how these aspects are manufactured together by the participants through their mutually elaborating body movements and orientations.…”

Section: Methodological Approachmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…For example, archaeologists uncover traces of ancient human artifacts by tracing out color changes in dirt (Goodwin, 1994(Goodwin, , 2018, food professionals touch cheese in a gourmet shop to determine qualities in them (Mondada, 2020), or auto-shop owners touch parts of a car in ways that enable diagnosis of problems (Streeck, 2013;Cuffari and Streeck, 2017). Other studies have shown how vision (Goodwin, 1994), gestural practices of pointing, tracing, and reenacting (Goodwin, 1994(Goodwin, , 2018Philipsen and Trasmundi, 2019;Philipsen and Katila, 2021), and touch (Nishizaka, 2007;Kuroshima, 2020;Merlino, 2020) are important for carrying out as well as teaching these different professional practices.…”

Section: Professional Vision and Professional Touchmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Enabled by direct intercorporeal connections between bodies, in interkinesthetically coordinated movement, single bodies connect through movement and move meaningfully together. By attuning to and anticipating the subtle body movements of the other and emerging as a co-mobile unit, bodies are able to perform movement trajectories from spontaneous co-gestures to complex and well-practiced choreographies of team sports (Behnke, 2008;Stuart, 2012;Meyer and Wedelstaedt, 2017;Philipsen and Katila, 2021).…”

Section: Professional Vision and Professional Touchmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Previous interaction research has shown that embodied interaction plays a crucial role in health care encounters (Heath, 1986). Drawing on the phenomenological approach to videoanalysis of movement and kinesthesia in interaction (Wedelstaedt and Meyer, 2017;e.g., Meyer et al, 2017;Philipsen and Katila, 2021), we develop the ways of seeing, understanding, and acting to make sense of the world in occupation-or institution-specific ways. Building on Goodwin's work, scholars have shown that not only vision but also touch can be part of such institutionalized professional practices (Nishizaka, 2007;Kuroshima, 2020).…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Forms of professional interkinesthesia in nurses' body work: A case study of an infant's stepping

Katila

Philipsen

2022

Front. Commun.

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Moving their bodies in knowledgeable and professional ways in order to handle and connect affectively with infants entails a large part of child health care nurses' work. We deploy a phenomenological approach to videoanalysis of interaction to analyze an episode of a 1-month-old infant visiting the child health care clinic with their caregiver to have their body assessed for a neonatal stepping. Focusing on the co-movement of the baby and the nurse, we ask: how do various ways of moving as a co-embodied entity allow and corporeally prompt the baby's age-appropriate bodily ability to emerge? We develop the notion of professional interkinesthesia to indicate specific forms of body work of nurses which in this case entails moving together with the baby to make her successfully perform a specific health care task—the stepping. Building on Charles Goodwin's concept of professional vision concept of professional vision, we uncover how the nurse moves and touches the infant's body in ways relevant to the institutional task. The study shows that accomplishing “normally” developed neonatal stepping is not work accomplished by the baby alone but requires that the bodies of the baby and the professional move in unison. While neonatal stepping is but one specific type of health care task, we propose that nurses' work entails numerous forms of professional touch and interkinesthesia that make it possible to successfully perform different types of health care operations.

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Section: Methodological Approachmentioning

confidence: 99%