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- Title
Equine-Facilitated Counselling and Women with Eating Disorders: Articulating Bodily Experience.
- Authors
Sharpe, Hillary
- Abstract
This hermeneutic phenomenological study explored the experiences of 14 women with eating disorders who took part in an equine-facilitated counselling group. The participants engaged in group and individual interviews that helped to articulate a language for understanding their bodily-relational experiences. Through dialogic movement and communication with their horses, the participants were able to attune in different ways to themselves and their worlds, thus interrupting some of the habitual practices of disordered eating. These changes and the moments that made a difference are explored through a description of the horses and their environment, my reflections as a researcher and counsellor in this context, and a short story pertaining to one of the women and her horse. Implications for counselling theory and practice are discussed.
- Subjects
EATING disorders in women; HEALTH counseling; HERMENEUTICS; PHENOMENOLOGY; DIALOGIC theory (Communication)
- Publication
Canadian Journal of Counselling & Psychotherapy / Revue Canadienne de Counseling et de Psychothérapie, 2014, Vol 48, Issue 2, p127
- ISSN
1923-6182
- Publication type
Article