6 papers in the library · 27 citations · publishing 2022-2026
Routledge eBooks October 15, 2026 Enara García
This chapter explores therapeutic atmospheres through the lens of 4E cognition – Embodied, Embedded, Enactive, and Extended – arguing that affective atmospheres are central to therapeutic transformation. Rather than viewing therapy as a purely verbal or cognitive process, it is framed as a situated, relational, and affectively structured ecology . Affective atmospheres are described as...
Outonomy: Fleshing out the Concept of Autonomy Beyond the Individual 2026 Enara García
This chapter examines mental disorders from an enactive perspective. It explores two key ontological claims—the processual and relational nature of cognition—and their implications for our understanding of mental disorders. Rather than viewing them as isolated brain disorders, mental disorders are presented as developmental sensorimotor trajectories that are shaped by embodied interactions and...
Synthese January 16, 2025 Enara García, Xabier E. Barandiaran
In recent years, (autonomy-centered) enactivism has been used to provide an integrative and relational account of mental conditions. A significant advancement lies in its naturalized and pluralistic treatment of normativity, which transcends traditional objectivist and normativist dichotomies. This article explores the varieties of normativity within this paradigm and their implications for...
Frontiers in Psychology July 16, 2024 Mariana Lozada, Enara García, Alejandro Chaoul et al.
Health is frequently addressed from a dualistic perspective that separates mind and body. The biomedical paradigm tends to focus on observable and measurable symptoms, focusing on objective indicators of disease and relegating subjective experience to a mere epiphenomenon. Moreover, the medical system tends to assume that experts must solve health issues while patients passively receive...
Phenomenology and the Cognitive Sciences September 8, 2023 Enara García 9 citations
Abstract Several enactive-phenomenological perspectives have pointed to affectivity as a central aspect of mental disorders. Indeed, from an enactive perspective, sense-making is an inherently affective process. A question remains on the role of different forms of affective experiences (i.e., existential feelings, atmospheres, moods, and emotions) in sense-making and, consequently, in mental...
Frontiers in Psychology August 3, 2022 Enara García, Iñigo R. Arandia 18 citations
As an alternative to linear and unidimensional perspectives focused mainly on either organic or psychological processes, the enactive approach to life and mind—a branch of 4-E (embodied, embedded, enactive, extended) cognitive theories—offers an integrative framework to study mental disorders that encompasses and articulates organic, sensorimotor, and intersubjective dimensions of embodiment....