Nuwan D Leitan

The mind-body relationship in psychotherapy: grounded cognition as an explanatory framework.

Frontiers in Psychology May 20, 2014 Nuwan D Leitan, Greg Murray

As a discipline, psychology is defined by its location in the ambiguous space between mind and body, but theories underpinning the application of psychology in psychotherapy are largely silent on this fundamental metaphysical issue. This is a remarkable state of affairs, given that psychotherapy is typically a real-time meeting between two embodied agents, with the goal of facilitating behavior...