In this post, Norwegian physiotherapy lecturer, researcher and hippotherapy practitioner Tobba Sudman talks about Erving Goffman's book Presentation of self in everyday life. Spanish translation provided by CPN Exec member Alma Viviana Silva. Presentation of self in everyday life (1959) was Goffman’s first of 11 books, detailing social interaction as a bridge over the actor-structure divide in social theory. Goffman’s key message is that social interaction is a moral and precarious endeavor, in which we all are embedded. Social interaction is communication with all kinds of signs and micro-behavior, designed for mutual impression management, interpretation and creation of working … [Read more...] about Tobba Sudmann – Presentation of self in everyday life – 30DoS #5
On pleasure
Something for the weekend, in honour of my dear friend BG, who could do with a laugh right now... Lying in bed would be an altogether perfect and supreme experience if only one had a coloured pencil long enough to draw on the ceiling (G. K. Chesterton). How beautiful it is to do nothing and then rest afterwards (Spanish proverb). No pleasure is worth giving up for the sake of two more years in a geriatric home in Weston-super-Mare (Kingsley Amis). … [Read more...] about On pleasure
New: Movement for Life
If there's one concept that seems to have united physiotherapists in recent years, its movement. Movement for Health is the theme chosen by WCPT in 2008 to convey 'the core of what physical therapists/physiotherapists do' (link), Movement for Life has been adopted by physiotherapy clinics (link) and professional bodies (link), and like pain, has become a key way that we are now trying to express our point of difference, complexity and diversity of skills. And yet movement remains almost entirely unexamined by the profession (which is interesting, given how much stall we now seem to place on evidence-based practice!) Apart from a few attempts to provide a larger appreciation for … [Read more...] about New: Movement for Life