 The merging of empirical and phenomenological methodologies is also readily supported by the tenets of some accounts of embodied and enactive cognition. Conceptions of the embodied, embedded, and sense-making enactive mind bring emphasis on the way, shaped by perceptual experience, consciousness and the first person perspective form the basis of all mental processing (Varela, Thompson, &amp; Rosch 1991; Durt, Fuchs, &amp; Tewes 2017; Di Paolo &amp; De Jaegher 2017). Applied to mental disorder, this departure from classical cognitivist assumptions and analogies suggests that in at least some, and perhaps all cases, disorder grows out of disturbances in embodied interaction with the environment, and not from dysfunctions occurring in high-level cognitive mechanisms (Drayson 2009; Stanghellini 2004; Maiese  2016).[6] 