Embodied Approaches to Psychotherapy

Meeting is Perilous: Embodied Psychotherapy Explored Through an Embodied Interview

In this experimental ’embodied interview’ Dr Asaf Rolef Ben-Shahar and Jane Ryan attempt to illustrate an interaction that focuses on the minutiae of embodied responses between two people, within a relational framework. As they reflect upon and communicate their experience of each other during the conversation they go beyond an intellectual explanation of embodied psychotherapy to an experiential encounter. A level of intimacy and honesty is quickly established, which exposes each of them to a degree of vulnerability in relation to each other. Themes of proximity, safety, wishes and fears between them quickly come to the surface. This video raises questions about the role of the body in relatedness, about real or therapeutic intimacy and the human need for connection.