Ecological, phenomenological and embodied approach in psychotherapy and its significance for the education of psychotherapists
Філософія освіти March 6, 2022 Yehor Butsykin 1 citation
Thomas Fuchs combines phenomenology, enactivism, ecological psychology, and existential psychiatry into a coherent philosophical approach for psychology and psychotherapy. His work draws on the enactivist idea of the two-dimensional embodied subject and rehabilitates philosophical anthropology and Naturphilosophie, particularly Helmut Plessner's version. Fuchs' approach can be interpreted as a modern Naturphilosophie within the broader project of naturalizing phenomenology. The article distinguishes ecological approach from ecological methodology and argues that Fuchs uses an ecological approach to justify combining seemingly contradictory methodologies. This ecological approach is presented as a radicalization of the phenomenological attitude or a radical phenomenological stance.