Discovering embodiment: A poetic method

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This paper explores how trauma enabled embodiment to be forcefully felt and later usefully used in doctoral research. The shocking murder of my sister by her husband created intense physical reactions within me (Caldwell, 19978. Caldwell, C. 1997. a??The somatic umbrellaa??. In Getting in touch, Edited by: Caldwell, C. 7-28. Wheaton, IL: Quest Books. View all references; Sidoli, 200045. Sidoli, M. 2000. When the body speaks, London: Routledge. [CrossRef]View all references). Previous years of teaching enabled observation of the body as a source of information but nothing prepared me for the shock and impact of murder. Although a client in therapy at the time, I wrote poetry to manage such intense reactions. I felt the horror of containing murder while also wanting freedom from it (Bracegirdle, 20074. Bracegirdle, CE. (2007). Beauty and the beast: Clientsa?? experience of counselling within a narrative framework, considering concepts of containment and freedom (Doctoral dissertation). Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/2299/2550View all references, 2011). Writing poetry brought opposing aspects of myself together (Van der Hart, Nijenhuis, & Steele, 2006) and eventually enabled the conception of research to discover if other clients experienced such opposition between containment and freedom. During the research process, embodiment, experienced and used through trauma, helped analyse participantsa?? journals. Trauma's impact created a learning process which seems to demonstrate how such personal learning may influence qualitative research.View full textDownload full textKeywordstrauma, poetry, words, embodiment, experience, movementRelated var addthis_config = { ui_cobrand: "Taylor & Francis Online", services_compact: "citeulike,netvibes,twitter,technorati,delicious,linkedin,facebook,stumbleupon,digg,google,more", pubid: "ra-4dff56cd6bb1830b" }; var addthis_config = {"data_track_addressbar":true,"ui_click":true}; Add to shortlist Link Permalink http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/17432979.2011.645879