Šamanství, léčitelství, moderní medicína a psychoterapie II. (Shamanism, Healing, Modern Medicine and Psychotherapy II)

Abstract

The author of the paper believes there is a need to open medicine up to phenomenological reformulation so that human embodiment (the somatic) is viewed not as an object, but as the life of an individual open to the world and relations within it, that is always also embodied. In objective medicine illness is defined as am affliction of the body, whereas psychotherapy is concerned with the life of the human being in the world. Until a new medicine emerges, it is necessary for pyschotherapy to work with classical medicine without being convertible into it. Using natural language and thanks to a pre-scientific, everyday and accessible understanding of human life and the meaning of embodiment and illness within it, there can be communication and collaboration between the two approaches. According to the author this approach is a provisional state that at the same time delineates the possibilities of psychosomatic medicine.