Fenomenologija tijela i tjelesne psihoterapije
Phenomenology of Body and Body Psychotherapies

Summary/Abstract: After Nietzsche and Klages prepared a ground for the body to become the subject of philosophical investigations understood differently than within the Cartesian system or natural sciences, Schmitz developed the first systematic phenomenological approach to it. Schmitz takes the subject up from the radical and consistent phenomenological definition of body (Leib in contrast to Körper), and devises theoretical framework and vocabulary which enables talking about an entire span of states experienced through body. In psychotherapy, body was thematised firstly in early body psychotherapies that had their root in psychoanalysis (Reich, Lowen, Kelley). In these, the understanding of body as phyisical body (Körper) is predominant. Purely phenomenological approach to body in psychotherapy (in the sense of Schmitz’s Leib) was developed by Gendlin. Contemporary body-oriented psychotherapies (Levine, Ogdne, van der Kolk) were most notably developed in posttraumatic syndrome therapies, and they integrate phenomenological research on body with cognitive-narrative approaches and new neurobiological discoveries. Each in its own way, both the phenomenology of body and body psychotherapies attempt to balance the hypertrophy of rational, cognitive and spiritual within the culture, shifting the focus to the field of corporeality, on the intangible, fluid, almost ineffable parts of experience, for centuries marginalized in philosophy and science despite the fact that they play an important role in life-world (Lebenswelt).

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