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Witnessing: From Passer-by to Attuned Other

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This chapter is inspired by the PhD thesis The Body as a Universal Gateway: Embodied Spirituality (Yusef, 2008), briefly outlined below, and aims to harvest emerging ideas to propose the concept of ‘witnessing’. The intention of this chapter is to explore the ‘witness’, and in so doing bridge creative research inquiry with academic scholarship, experience and phenomenology with theoretical concepts and illustrate with personal experiences relating to the therapeutic encounter.

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  1. Dori Yusef
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  1. University of Leeds, UK

    Greg Nolan

  2. University of Manchester, UK

    William West

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Yusef, D. (2015). Witnessing: From Passer-by to Attuned Other. In: Nolan, G., West, W. (eds) Therapy, Culture and Spirituality. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137370433_10

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