LES TODRES is a Clinical Psychologist and Professor of Qualitative Research at Bournemouth University, UK. His previous occupational roles have included head of a student counselling service and director of a clinical psychology training programme. His career spans both academic and clinical contexts, reflecting his interest in pursuing knowledge and practice that is both academically and professionally integrated.

This book considers the role of the lived body as a way of knowing and being

Introduction: An Embodied Path at Beginning and End PART I: RESEARCH METHODOLOGY: TOWARDS AESTHETIC AND EMBODIED PRACTICES The Qualitative Description of Human Experience: The Aesthetic Dimension The Meaning of Understanding and the Open Body: Some Implications for Qualitative Research The Bodily Complexity of Truth-Telling in Qualitative Research: Some Implications of Gendlin's Philosophy Writing Phenomenological-Psychological Descriptions: An Illustration Attempting to Balance Texture and Structure PART II: PSYCHOTHERAPY: EMBODYING COMPLEX IDENTITY Humanising Forces: Phenomenology in Science; Psychotherapy in Technological Culture The Rhythm of Psychotherapeutic Attention: A Training Model The Primacy of Phenomenological Process and Sequence in Psychotherapy: A Case Study Globalisation and the Complexity of Self: The Relevance of Psychotherapy Freedom-Wound: Towards the Embodiment of human Openness in Daseinanalytical Therapy PART III: SPIRITUALITY: EMBODYING FREEDOM AND VULNERABILITY Psychological and Spiritual Freedoms: Reflections Inspired by Heidegger How does Liberating Self-Insight Become Tacit Understanding? The Wound that Connects: A Consideration of 'Narcissism' and the Creation of Soulful Space Embracing Ambiguity: Transpersonal Development and the Phenomenological Tradition Conclusion Thoughts and Touchstones: A Wide Embrace