Focusing-Oriented Psychotherapy: A Manual of the Experiential MethodExamining 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. |
Contents
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Eight Characteristics of an Experiential Process Step | 16 |
What the Client Does to Enable an Experiential Step to Come | 25 |
What a Therapist Can Do to Engender an Experiential Step | 41 |
The Crucial Bodily Attention | 57 |
Focusing | 69 |
Experiential Dream Interpretation | 199 |
Imagery | 212 |
Emotional Catharsis Reliving | 221 |
Action Steps | 227 |
Cognitive Therapy | 238 |
A Process View of the Superego | 247 |
The LifeForward Direction | 259 |
Values | 264 |
Excerpts from Teaching Focusing | 76 |
Problems of Teaching Focusing during Therapy | 104 |
Excerpts from One Clients Psychotherapy | 112 |
INTEGRATING OTHER THERAPEUTIC METHODS | 167 |
A Unified View of the Field through Focusing and the Experiential Method | 169 |
Working with the Body A New and Freeing Energy | 181 |
Role Play | 192 |
It Fills Itself In | 276 |
The ClientTherapist Relationship | 283 |
Should We Call It Therapy? | 299 |
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Other editions - View all
Focusing-Oriented Psychotherapy: A Manual of the Experiential Method Eugene T. Gendlin Limited preview - 1998 |
Focusing-oriented Psychotherapy: A Manual of the Experiential Method Eugene T. Gendlin No preview available - 1996 |
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