I'm currently entertaining a theory that there's an interesting cluster of ideas somewhere in the intersection of Gendlen (Focusing), Merleau-Ponty (Phenomenology of Perception) and Keagen (Developmental Stages). Anyone who has done the reading want to just hand me the insight?
Well, I did read M-P 30 years ago. I can’t remember much. He has some fascinating clinical case studies. I thought his theoretical points were all obvious (albeit obviously true). OTOH that’s probably because I’d absorbed them from downstream sources, and he originated them.
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Synthesizing Kegan with any body-oriented view, or more generally with a framework that prioritizes specifics and situatedness seems likely to be productive.
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Kegan does rely heavily on edited transcripts of therapy sessions, so it’s not ungrounded, but then he jumps to extreme abstractions, and it’s often frustrating how much middle ground is missing. Especially in 4->5 transition which is what I’m most interested in currently.
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