Three Frames of Reference in Bodywork (and other interactive healthcare professions)

Sometimes we confuse Objectivity with Rigor. They are different.

This is not your average classroom demo. I’m not showing any moves, but instead trying to dissect the phenomenology of touch therapy.

In other words, what kinds of information are encountered in bodywork, and how do we make use of them?

Traditionally we have used the standard subjective/objective framework that is dominant in most of medicine. In this video I propose that this doesn’t make sense for any healthcare profession where interaction — and thus intersubjectivity — is key for good outcomes.

So if you are a manual therapist, physical therapist, talk therapist etc — Ask yourself this: Does Subjective/Objective actually capture the relevant information in your practice?

We need to admit that there is such a thing as ‘Practitioner Subjective’ information, which we use all the time. Sometimes we pretend that it is objective, and sometimes we redact it from our charts.

But when we do so we promote profound confusion, unfounded claims, and dysfunctional healthcare teams.

Here is me trying my best to speak clearly about this in a ‘Craniosacral for Skeptics’ class.

For more background on Phenomenology, and how it tries to address the direct experience of humans in rigorous ways check out:

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