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Bullington J..
The Expression of the Psychosomatic Body from a Phenomenological Perspective. Chapter 2.
Living Body (Translated by E. G. Rudneva)
// Psychology and Psychotechnics. – 2013. – ¹ 5.
– P. 492-505.
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Abstract: In her researches Jennifer Bullington, a professor at Schendal High School in Stockholm, focuses on the system
philosophical analysis of psychosomatic theories and the problems of theoretical interpretation of psychosomatic
states in order to improve the treatment of patients who have complicated psychosomatic symptoms. Bullington views
psychosomatic theory from the point of view of philosophy, particularly based on such authors as Edmund Husserl and
Maurice Merleau-Ponty. In this work, Bullington presents her alternative phenomenological theory of psychosomatics
being inspired by a French phenomenologist Maurice Merleau-Ponty. Merleau-Ponty developed the definition of living
body and transformation of structure. Viewing the phenomenon of perception from the phenomenological point of
view allows us to get access to the field which has never been discovered before. This is the field which Merleau-Ponty
described as the ‘interweaving’ or a ‘dialogue’ between human and the world.
Keywords: psychology, phenomenology, psychosomatics, psychophysical issue, subjectivity, body, soul, intentionality, consciousness, feelings, natural attitude.
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