Eleonore ten Thij, Moniek van Slagmaat, Truus Scharstuhl, ‘Water As An Affective Medium’, INTERNATIONAL BODY PSYCHOTHERAPY JOURNAL (Volume 23 Number 1, 2024)
Clinical observations suggest that haptotherapy in water improves clients’ capacity to experience positive affect. (…) We hypothesized that improving sensory awareness will lead to experiencing more positive affect. We constructed a questionnaire to link base embodiment and field of affective resonance to experiencing specific affects such as vitality and existential feelings. (…) The results indicate that the questionnaire was highly reliable, and that sensory awareness and positive affect had improved.