ABSTRACT
The concepts of embodiment and the lived-body paradigm help to provide a theoretical framework which moves away from traditional psychotherapeutic discourse of the body, towards a way of viewing therapists’ embodied phenomena as part of the therapeutic narrative. I am suggesting that the embodied experience of the therapist is a significant aspect of the intersubjective nature of therapy. By viewing embodied phenomena through the perspective of the lived-body paradigm, meaning can be created out of the embodied experience of the therapist. This is a significant aspect of the intersubjective nature of the therapeutic relationship, and so we will, at the end of this chapter, be discussing the importance of intersubjectivity. In particular I will highlight the role of empathy during the intersubjective encounter between therapist and client.
