Acknowledgments
Chapter One: Speaking One’s Mind
Chapter Two: External Dialogues: Grief, Loss, and Unfinished
Business
Chapter Three: External Dialogues: The Treatment of Trauma and
Difficult Relationships
Chapter Four: External Dialogues: Assertiveness and Behavioral
Rehearsal
Chapter Five: Internal Dialogues: Multiplicity and Inner
Conflict
Chapter Six: Internal Dialogues: Inner Critic and Negative Schema
Voices
Chapter Seven: Inner Dialogues: Polarity Work
Chapter Eight: Substance Use and Addictive Behaviors
Chapter Nine: Feminist Therapy, Internalized Oppression, Somatic
Concerns, and Working with Psychosis
Chapter Ten: Deepening Your Practice
References
Index
Scott Kellogg, is clinical assistant professor in the New York University Department of Psychology. In addition to his teaching and private practice, he conducts chairwork training seminars across the world. His website is http://transformationalchairwork.com
Kellogg has clearly done a lot of research into the origins of
Chairwork and the various uses and different interpretations of the
technique. . . .For practitioners who are interested in the
Chairwork technique and want to expand their range of using this
method, they may find Kellogg’s book a useful source as there is a
wide and varied number of script examples and a chapter included
near the end of the book on ways of developing the technique to
take the work to a deeper level.
*British Gestalt Journal*
Scott Kellogg is a masterful psychotherapist who brings
intelligence, passion, creativity, and love to his commitment to
reducing suffering in the world. His inspiring and useful book,
Transformational Chairwork: Using Psychotherapeutic Dialogues in
Clinical Practice, resurrects and refines the lost art of
Chairwork, as originally pioneered by Jacob Moreno and Fritz Perls,
and makes it accessible to clinicians of all perspectives. However,
the book is much more than this. It brings us into the room with
Kellogg and his patients as he models and teaches the reader how to
blend the use of self with exquisite therapeutic technique in an
effort to help people heal and grow. The book offers applications
for working with loss, trauma, assertiveness, inner conflict, inner
critic issues and addiction. This book should be on every
clinician’s bookcase.
*Andrew Tatarsky, PhD, The Center for Optimal Living*
A transformational book! Research will, eventually, establish the
effectiveness of this technique, and make it one of the key
techniques used by integrative psychotherapists with many different
kinds of clients. Chairwork offers clients a way to get in touch
with powerful, hidden conflicting thoughts and feelings. Whether
therapists see themselves as primarily cognitive or psychodynamic
or humanistic or existential, Scott Kellogg’s wonderfully written
book offers an illuminating entry into Chairwork, providing many
vivid case examples to illustrate his points. With adequate
training and experience, Chairwork will greatly enhance any
therapist’s repertoire of effective techniques.
*F. Michler Bishop, PhD*
In this fascinating book, Scott Kellogg demonstrates how
psychotherapy can be artwork and effective at the same time. In a
very enriching way he reminds us about the fundamental nature of
polarities in our lives and shows us how we, through sophisticated
Chairwork, can deal creatively with them to promote healing and
change. The book invites us to see psychotherapy as a living
enterprise and to understand the deep existential meaning of
polarities. It revitalizes and develops the art of Chairwork with
elegant clarity. It transforms our ways of looking at chairs as
beholders of perspectives.
*Jan Tønnesvang, PhD, Aarhus University*
Scott Kellogg's book Transformational Chairwork: Using
Psychotherapeutic Dialogues in Clinical Practice is highly
instructive, and is certain to become the standard in helping
therapists to use a highly experiential and effective approach
known as ‘empty chair.’ Indeed, its rich and instructive dialogues
may transform both therapists and patients' lives.
*Irismar Reis de Oliveira, MD, PhD, Federal University of Bahia,
Brazil*
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