For a corporality of writing and ethnographic doing: the construction of subjectivity in holistic therapies

Abstract

The purpose of this paper is to discuss a therapeutic experience, carried out during fieldwork in the city of Lisbon, in which collecting and interpreting the data was intrinsically related to changes in the researcher's body/perception. The article argues that this concept would be interesting to relate emotional-intellectual states to physical states as a form of language articulated by values ​​associated with the universe of alternative therapies. Thus, the notion of well-being is presented, rather, as a set of skills to be apprehended, experienced and exercised than as a mere predisposition of “sensitive” subjects.