Focusing-Oriented Psychotherapy: A Manual of the Experiential Method - Softcover

Gendlin, Eugene T.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 157230376X ISBN 13: 9781572303768

Publisher: The Guilford Press, 1998

Synopsis

Examining the actual moment-to-moment process of therapy, this volume provides specific ways for therapists to engender effective movement, particularly in those difficult times when nothing seems to be happening. The book concentrates on the ongoing client therapist relationship and ways in which the therapist's responses can stimulate and enable a client's capacity for direct experiencing and "focusing." Throughout, the client therapist relationship is emphasized, both as a constant factor and in terms of how the quality of the relationship is manifested at specific times. The author also shows how certain relational responses can turn some difficulties into moments of relational therapy.

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About the Author

Eugene T. Gendlin, PhD (1926–2017), taught at the University of Chicago from 1964 to 1995. He was the founder and, for many years, the editor of Psychotherapy: Theory, Research and Practice. Dr. Gendlin was honored numerous times for his development of experiential psychotherapy. He was the first recipient of the Distinguished Professional Psychologist of the Year award from Division 42 (Psychologists in Independent Practice) of the American Psychological Association. He was awarded the Viktor Frankl prize by the city of Vienna and the Viktor Frankl Family Foundation in 2008. In 2016 he was honored with lifetime achievement awards from the World Association for Person-Centered and Experiential Psychotherapy and Counseling and the United States Association for Body Psychotherapy.

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1. Introduction I. Focusing and Listening 2. Dead Ends 3. Eight Characteristics of an Experiential Process Step 4. What the Client Does to Enable an Experiential Step to Come 5. What a Therapist Can Do to Engender an Experiential Step 6. The Crucial Bodily Attention 7. Focusing 8. Excerpts from Teaching Focusing 9. Problems of Teaching Focusing during Therapy 10. Excerpts from One Client's Psychotherapy II. Integrating Other Therapeutic Methods 11. A Unified View of the Field through Focusing and the Experiential Method 12. Working with the Body: A New and Freeing Energy 13. Role Play 14. Experiential Dream Interpretation 15. Imagery 16. Emotional Catharsis, Reliving 17. Action Steps 18. Cognitive Therapy 19. A Process View of the Superego 20. The Life-Forward Direction 21. Values 22. It Fills Itself In 23. The Client Therapist Relationship 24. Should We Call It "Therapy"?

Edition details

• Publisher: The Guilford Press
• Publication date: 1998
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 157230376X
• ISBN 13: 9781572303768
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 317