Rose Cameron: Researching Embodied Presence and Non-cognitive perception

Event date: 
Thursday 3 March
Location: 
Room 4.1, doorway 6, Old Medical School, Teviot Place

 

 

Rose Cameron: Researching Embodied Presence and Non-cognitive perception

When: March 3rd 2016

In this seminar, I discuss my research into non-cognitive modes of perception and the implications for the therapeutic relationship as theorised by Rogers. I focus in particular upon the sixth, and least discussed of Rogers’ therapeutic conditions, that the client perceives the therapist as authentic, empathic and unconditionally accepting. I will argue that perception is an embodied and interpretative process, sensitive to the most subtle - and seemingly internal- fluctuations in the therapist’s embodied presence...

Followed by an invitation to continue the discussions across the road at ‘Doctors’. No need to book.
http://www.ed.ac.uk/schools-departments/health/counselling/news/first-thursday-seminar-series