Focusing-Oriented Psychotherapy

Focusing-Oriented Psychotherapy

Author: Eugene T. Gendlin

Publisher: Guilford Press

Published: 2012-07-27

Total Pages: 332

ISBN-13: 1462505627

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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.


Focusing

Focusing

Author: Eugene T. Gendlin

Publisher: Bantam

Published: 1982-08-01

Total Pages: 226

ISBN-13: 0553278339

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The classic guide to a powerful technique that can increase your mindfulness and lead to personal transformation Based on groundbreaking research conducted at the University of Chicago, the focusing technique has gained widespread popularity and scholarly acclaim. It consists of six easy-to-master steps that identify and change the way thoughts and emotions are held within the body. Focusing can be done virtually anywhere, at any time, and an entire “session” can take no longer than ten minutes, but its effects can be felt immediately–in the relief of bodily tension and psychological stress, as well as in dramatic shifts in understanding and insight. In this highly accessible guide, Dr. Eugene Gendlin, the award-winning psychologist who developed the focusing technique, explains the basic principles behind focusing and offers simple step-by-step instructions on how to utilize this powerful tool for tapping into greater self-awareness and inner wisdom. As you learn to develop your natural ability to “focus,” you’ll find yourself more in sync with both mind and body, filled with greater self-assurance, and better equipped to make the positive changes necessary to improve and enhance every aspect of your life.


Focusing-Oriented Therapy

Focusing-Oriented Therapy

Author: Neil Friedman

Publisher:

Published: 2007-02

Total Pages: 205

ISBN-13: 9780595398300

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Focusing-Oriented Therapy (FOT) is a new kind of therapy developed by Dr. Eugene Gendlin. Focusing-Oriented Therapy is only the second book to describe how this therapy works. It takes you into sessions of FOT so that you can experience what it is like from being there on the inside.Author Friedman takes note that the therapist-client relationship is crucial to therapeutic success. He shows how through focusing and listening clients can become more aware of their own experiencing process. Affective-based therapy has better results than intellectual-based therapy. It helps clients get out of their minds and into their bodies, the place where feelings and felt sense live. Friedman also discusses the following topics: Key terms necessary to understand FOT Ways to combine focusing and listening in therapy Integrating FOT with other verbal and body-centered therapies This innovative approach to therapy is ideal for both beginners and master practitioners who want to integrate FOT with their current methods If you're a client who has had a bad experience with therapy, or have never experienced it at all, check out Focusing-Oriented Therapy, it could change your life.


The Trouble with Psychotherapy

The Trouble with Psychotherapy

Author: Campbell Purton

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing

Published: 2014-12-11

Total Pages: 355

ISBN-13: 1350305669

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Current therapeutic practice is grounded in traditional theories of psychotherapy, such as the theories that underlie cognitive-behavioural, psychodynamic and person-centred practice. But none of these approaches has been proven to be more effective than any other, leaving the therapist with an ethical and professional dilemma: how do you advocate and practise one theory with your clients, when a completely different theoretical approach is being successfully practised down the road? In this book Campbell Purton argues that psychotherapy and counselling theories fail to provide adequate justification for their practice. Part 1 highlights the weaknesses and dangers that underlie traditional counselling theories and their derivatives, including psychodynamic, cognitive behavioural, existential and neuroscience approaches. Having unpicked these theories, Part 2 goes on to develop an exciting new way of thinking about therapy that does not rely on theory - one that can be likened to a 'common sense' approach to therapeutic practice. This book poses important questions and offers unique insight for anyone studying or practising in the field of counselling and psychotherapy.


A Process Model

A Process Model

Author: Eugene Gendlin

Publisher: Northwestern University Press

Published: 2017-11-15

Total Pages: 419

ISBN-13: 081013621X

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Eugene T. Gendlin (1926–2017) is increasingly recognized as one of the seminal thinkers of our era. Carrying forward the projects of American pragmatism and continental philosophy, Gendlin created an original form of philosophical psychology that brings new understandings of human experience and the life-world, including the “hard problem of consciousness.” A Process Model, Gendlin’s magnum opus, offers no less than a new alternative to the dualism of mind and body. Beginning with living process, the body’s simultaneous interaction and identity with its environment, Gendlin systematically derives nonreductive concepts that offer novel and rigorous ways to think from within lived precision. In this way terms such as body, environment, time, space, behavior, language, culture, situation, and more can be understood with both great force and great subtlety. Gendlin’s project is relevant to discussions not only in philosophy but in other fields in which life process is central—including biology, environmental management, environmental humanities, and ecopsychology. It provides a genuinely new philosophical approach to complex societal challenges and environmental issues.


Focusing in Clinical Practice: The Essence of Change

Focusing in Clinical Practice: The Essence of Change

Author: Ann Weiser Cornell

Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company

Published: 2013-08-05

Total Pages: 287

ISBN-13: 0393707601

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Drawing on mindfulness, body psychotherapy and positive psychology, focusing teaches clients how to identify their inner awareness to spur change and therapeutic progress. This guide explains how to use focusing to treat a range of issues.


The Person-centred Counselling Primer

The Person-centred Counselling Primer

Author: Pete Sanders

Publisher: Counselling Primers

Published: 2006

Total Pages: 124

ISBN-13: 9781898059806

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For students, researchers or practitioners wanting a succinct guide to person-centred theory and practice.