In this article I argue that social work practice is continually informed by not just a corporeal or physical body, but also by an incorporeal body. Incorporeal knowledge. I am interested in how such a body invokes questions about how we theorize (in/through) practice. To examine these questions, I work with the postmodern theoretical stance that the separation of practice and theory in social work is not tenable (Fook, 1996; Fook, 2002; John, 1994; Rossiter, 2000). I narrate effects on my body of trauma work that have been framed by the incorporeal body.
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