From discourse to awareness: Rhetoric, mindfulness, and a psychology without foundations

Stanley, Steven ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4776-4097 2013. From discourse to awareness: Rhetoric, mindfulness, and a psychology without foundations. Theory & Psychology 23 (1) , pp. 60-80. 10.1177/0959354312463261

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Abstract

This paper argues for a shift in the grounding of psychology from discourse to a “groundless ground” rooted in an ethically sensitive, within-person, and moment-to-moment embodied awareness. It offers a critique of discursive and rhetorical psychology commensurate with “affective turn” studies and develops an approach based in the practice of mindfulness meditation. This orientation enables the participant-researcher to come into experiential contact with a domain of pre-subjectivity not often addressed by discursive approaches. It also considers parallels between discursive constructionism and Buddhist mindfulness and shows how mindfulness is relationally and rhetorically organized as a social practice.

Item Type:	Article
Date Type:	Publication
Status:	Published
Schools:	Schools > Social Sciences (Includes Criminology and Education)
Subjects:	B Philosophy. Psychology. Religion > BF Psychology B Philosophy. Psychology. Religion > BL Religion H Social Sciences > H Social Sciences (General)
Uncontrolled Keywords:	Buddhism; discursive psychology; embodiment; mindfulness; rhetoric
Publisher:	Sage
ISSN:	0959-3543
Last Modified:	25 Oct 2022 09:16
URI:	https://orca.cardiff.ac.uk/id/eprint/57865

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