Kroppserfaring i terapi og dagligliv: På vei fra kroppen som problem til mulighet - En fenomenologisk longitudinell studie av pasienter med overspisningslidelse sine erfaringer med Basal Kroppskjennskap

Purpose: Patients with binge eating disorder have a problematic body experience. There is a lack of research deepening our understanding of their body experience or of including the body in therapy. The purpose of this study is to investigate how patients with binge eating disorder experience Basic Body Awareness Therapy, which is a treatment method within the psychomotoric physiotherapeutic field. Method: In this qualitative, phenomenological study, two patients with binge eating disorder were followed throughout their treatment period and after, with in-depths interviews. Additionally, video-observations and written logs from treatment were used as supporting data. The data were analysed inspired by Van Manen. Result and discussion: As a result, «On my way the body as a problem, to the body as possibility», was through analyses found to be main meaning-structure of the participants lived experience from Basic Body Awareness Therapy. The eating disorder, movement, pain, calmness end self-experience was found to be the essential themes as parts of the main meaning-structure. The results were discussed in lights of phenomenology of the body and part of modern psychology which both may contribute to a deeper understanding of the meaning of the two participators body experience Conclusion: The study demonstrates how Basic Body Awareness may have further developed the body experience and opened new possibilities for the two participants with binge eating disorder. The theoretical foundation has deepened the understanding of coherence between body experience and self-experience, body experience and life, in the participants narratives from the treatment-processes