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The present study investigated how somatic psychotherapists understand gender and work with it in clinical practice, in order to address a silence regarding gender in the recent literature of somatic psychology—especially in the last generation since the advent of magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) of the brain, and a new reliance on neuroscience for grounding somatic psychotherapeutic practice. Following grounded theory methodology as articulated primarily by Cathy Charmaz (2006), the researcher interviewed 16 somatic psychotherapists from a wide spectrum of gender assumptions and gender identities. Data coded from the transcripts suggested a cyclical process for participant understanding of gender, alternating between expert and naive positions, and illustrating how bodily experience, linguistic influences, implicit and explicit narrative sources, and codified relationships comprise a process for understanding and exploring gender, gender identities, and gender assumptions in clinical practice and beyond.
Advisor: | Johnson, Rae |
Commitee: | Downing, Christine, Moon, Lyndsey |
School: | The Chicago School of Professional Psychology |
Department: | Somatic Psychology |
School Location: | United States -- Illinois |
Source: | DAI-B 74/06(E), Dissertation Abstracts International |
Source Type: | DISSERTATION |
Subjects: | Counseling Psychology, Clinical psychology, Gender studies |
Keywords: | Body psychotherapy, Gender, Psychology, Psychotherapy, Sexuality, Somatic psychology |
Publication Number: | 3551850 |
ISBN: | 978-1-267-89974-3 |