ABSTRACT
This chapter explores the different relational stances which body psychotherapists can be found to be taking in relation to the client’s embodied character, manifesting in the here and now between client and therapist. By rooting the BodyMind process of the therapeutic relationship in a non-dualistic enactive, embodied, embedded and extended account of mind, in the context of intersubjectivity in the therapeutic encounter, we recognise the limitations of the therapist taking a variety of fixed stances (or a combination thereof). We can identify the following therapeutic stances as common denominators in the diverse subcultures of the body psychotherapeutic field: the therapist can position themselves.
