This paper addresses the burgeoning interest in management studies concerning methodologies that generate societal or organizational impact. While much research has focused on tackling major societal ...and environmental challenges, less is known about how management research can benefit research participants. A promising approach involves developing novel methodologies that prioritize theoretical contributions through self‐reflections by both researchers and participants. Drawing, as a participatory methodology, holds considerable potential since it can express feelings and embodied experiences that may be hard to put into words. This study advocates for a participatory visual methodology using drawing, inspired by Gestalt art therapy, as a means to create a caring relationship with the participant and promote self‐reflection. The study offers three contributions that broaden the methodological scope of management studies: explaining the interplay between drawing, reflecting and theorizing; demonstrating how visual analysis can integrate the individual and their environment by drawing on Gestalt therapy's concept of contact boundary; and explaining how drawing can promote accountability in research with participants. To illustrate the contributions, the paper draws on two research projects that highlight the significance of self‐reflection in relation to embodied experiences and explain why it is important for both researchers and participants.
As eating disorders become more and more common, it is necessary to understand the influence of modern life factors on the formation of these diseases in order to develop more effective strategies ...for their prevention and treatment, so the purpose of this study was to systematically examine the sociocultural and psychological factors of eating disorders. Two key methodological approaches were used to study the social and underlying psychological factors of these disorders: sociocultural and psychoanalytic. The empirical basis of the study is based on the interview method. Social factors, in particular media influence, determine the formation of eating disorders, especially among women, through the creation of negative standards of beauty and bodily satisfaction. Based on interviews with people with eating disorders, it was found that the underlying psychological factors of these disorders are mainly focused on intrapersonal aspects, such as the perception of food and one's own body, emotional sphere, and self-esteem. At the same time, interpersonal factors related to interaction with the environment have a lesser impact. These factors can lead to the development and complicate the course of eating disorders, so it is important to work with psychological aspects for effective treatment. It is substantiated that psychodynamic and Gestalt therapy are effective treatment methods aimed at resolving mental conflicts. Both approaches use a variety of methods, including dream analysis and physiotherapy, to help patients understand and resolve their emotional and behavioural interactions with food. The practical value of the study is that its results highlight the need to use psychodynamic and Gestalt approaches in therapy, which can address the underlying psychological and emotional factors of eating disorders. The study can be applied in the activities of institutions specializing in the treatment of eating disorders
This article discusses the sensing dimension of experience and its implications in the experience of otherness. By exploring the ideas of appearing, figure formation, consciousness, corporeality, ...expression, movement, and otherness, a dialogue is developed with Gestalt therapy to contribute a broader understanding of sense as of a common ground. This conception is expressed in the notion of pathos, which is carefully discussed in terms of field, contact, and self theory. The original connection with the world as a state of undifferentiation is the realm of aesthetical experience. We live an aesthetic experience whenever and wherever there is sensory-motor integration. Consequently, movement and expression unfold as spontaneity from which we can meet and feel with the other. This conception has important implications for Gestalt therapy's clinical practice, which can be seen as an empathic encounter with the other.
This article presents a developmental and somatic approach to the process of contacting and posits how a fuller understanding of movement progressions illuminates that one exists only in relation to ...the other. Six Fundamental Movements, described in the infant–parent relationship as primary motor-affective supports for contact making, provide a phenomenological language for subverbal interactions throughout life. A family case vignette of mother and son demonstrates the way in which the integration of these six movements as diagnosis and treatment enables the practitioner to make a discovery: how early historic kinetic-kinesthetic relational themes constitute and are constituted by the present, and can be felt and seen through movement.
This article is a reflection about the “structure of the situation” in which some specific experiences of suffering take place: performance anxiety, stage fright, and social phobia. These experiences ...occur in a social setting in which the person feels that she “is seen doing” by others. More specifically, the person's agency becomes figural to others and the presence of others becomes—maybe disruptively—figural for the acting person. The article explores how a sense of I-agency and we-agency can emerge in the joint action, and how this can support the experience. The theoretical background is a radically relational approach to Gestalt therapy. The ideas presented here are illustrated with case examples.
