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?
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.
Every once in a while you read something which makes what you
already know wake up and come alive once more. This is certainly
such a book for me. But it is also much more. The work of a
clinician who is also a philosopher, Gendlin's experiential
psychotherapy--a process constructivism--brings powerful
experiential techniques to enliven therapeutic contact in whatever
therapeutic orientation. Beginners and old hands alike will find it
extremely valuable, offering as it does step-by-step guidance on
innovative ways to help clients learn from their own inner wisdom.
--Maureen O'Hara, PhD, Center for Studies of the Person
If you perceive Gene Gendlin as a person concerned exclusively with
focusing, this book will change your mind. The book takes a broad
and sweeping view of the whole domain of experiencing in
psychotherapy. It shows how a wide variety of therapy technologies
can be brought to bear in the service of a single central task,
namely, that of fostering the quality of immediacy and livingness
that is so necessary to the effectiveness of psychotherapy. Expect
the book to provide an exciting in-depth challenge to you, whether
you are an advanced student of psychotherapy or a practicing
clinician. --Julius Seeman, PhD, Professor Emeritus in Psychology,
Peabody College of Vanderbilt University
This is a work of theoretical and technical brilliance. At a time
when therapists of all orientations are attending to the empathic
and experiential aspects of therapy, Gendlin builds upon his own
pioneering work to elucidate an important domain of therapeutic
knowledge in a way that makes many other treatments of the topic
seem superficial by comparison. This is one of the more unique and
creative contributions to the psychotherapy literature in years.
--Jeremy D. Safran, PhD, Professor and Director of Clinical
Psychology, New School for Social Research
Gendlin offers a convincing argument and demonstration that it is
attention to the experimental manner rather than the content that
provides entry into the 'border zone' between the client's
conscious and unconscious processing. This is a rich and clinically
helpful book on a process-oriented approach to deepening clients'
experience. It will be of great use to clinicians of all
orientations in providing detailed accounts of how to deepen and
enliven clients' bodily felt experience in order to facilitate the
construction of new meaning. This book represents a major
contribution to the effort to understand the process of change in
psychotherapy. --Leslie S. Greenberg, PhD, Professor of Psychology,
York University, Toronto, Canada
- A fine philosophical and practical contribution to the field of
experiential psychology. Gendlin's perspective is, as always,
fresh, informative, and open to the mystery and wisdom of the total
person. --Journal of Supervision and Training in Ministry,
8/12/1998Æ’Æ’ A clear, detailed, and sensitive examination of what
goes on in the therapeutic process and in the process of
transformation. --Common Boundary, 8/12/1998
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