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Embodied Enquiry: Phenomenological touchstones for research, psychotherapy and spirituality
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Journal of Transpersonal Psychology
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July 1, 2007
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TODRES , L. (2007). Embodied Enquiry: Phenomenological touchstones for research, psychotherapy and spirituality. Houndmills,Hampshire, UK: PalgraveMacmillan. 224 pp. ISBN 10 0230517757. Hardbound, $74.95. Reviewed by Rosemarie Anderson.
Les Todres's Embodied Enquiry is a particularly useful book to transpersonal researchers because of its embodied methodology and perspective, a perspective often lacking in transpersonal research. Todres situates "the lived body as the 'place' where intimate understanding of both experience and language happen" (p. 5). Acknowledging his debt to the philosophical writings of Edmund Husserl, Martin Heidegger, Maurice Merleau-Ponty, and Eugene Gendlin and the ...