From a physical dimension to the development of ethical sensibility

Journal title PSICOBIETTIVO
Author/s Marco Vannotti
Publishing Year 2017 Issue 2017/2
Language Italian Pages 19 P. 54-72 File size 130 KB
DOI 10.3280/PSOB2017-002004
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Ethical sensibility initially develops from emotional needs rather than a proper intentional thought. To explain this hypothesis, common to different approaches, we are going to consider it by taking into account two opposite feelings: compassion and outrage. Therapists face a process, which begins with rage and consequent outrage that leads them to the healing process; this process helps them to take a position on knowledge of what is right or wrong. Compassion favors presence and mutual solidarity at first, but subsequently, it contributes to developing a more cognitive process of theoretical organization or rational meditation of desirable values. These emotional and physical responses are observed from psychotherapeutic practice, seen as a relationship, which aims to open up to the idea of hope.

Keywords: Intersubjectivity; Compassion; Ethical Meditation; Rage; Outrage; Indifference; Hope.

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Marco Vannotti, Dalla dimensione corporea alla nascita del sentimento etico in "PSICOBIETTIVO" 2/2017, pp 54-72, DOI: 10.3280/PSOB2017-002004