ABSTRACT
In this chapter, I discuss three fundamental theoretical conceptions that I consider to be the paradigmatic basics of body psychotherapy: the holistic view of the patient as experiencing subject in their lifeworld, the theory of enactivism and the understanding of the psychological as embodied mind and as part of a person's life processes, as well as the significance of experience in generating subjective meaning. In the section on experience, I look at the importance of phenomenology for body psychotherapy.
