Narrative, symbol, and psychotherapy: Emotion as experienced action and enactment of a gesture

Abstract

This paper explores a view of both art and therapeutic emotion as primary acts of mind, or lived experiences. Processes of artistic gesture or emotional enactment construct symbols from personal (body or physiological) and interpersonal (object or social) contexts. Felt action tendencies occur in the spaces between self and body, and between self and object. Adequate research and theory in emotion, art, and therapy requires acknowledgement of these processes as they symbolize and construct these relationships. An understanding of these processes as experienced and enacted calls for a narrative rather than a paradigmatic approach.

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