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Focusing-oriented psychotherapy : a manual of the experiential method /

By: Series: Publication details: New York : Guilford Press, ©1996.Description: viii, 304 pages ; 24 cmISBN:
  • 9781572303768
  • 157230376X
  • 9780898624793
Subject(s): LOC classification:
  • RC 489 GEN
Contents:
Dead ends -- Eight characteristics of an experiential process step -- What the client does to enable an experiential step to come -- What a therapist can do to engender an experiential step -- The crucial bodily attention -- Focusing -- Excerpts from teaching focusing -- Problems of teaching focusing during therapy -- Excerpts from one client's psychotherapy -- A unified view of the field through focusing and the experiential method -- Working with the body: a new and freeing energy -- Role play -- Experiential dream interpretation -- Imagery -- Emotional catharsis, reliving -- Action steps -- Cognitive therapy -- A process view of the superego -- The life-forward direction -- Values -- It fills itself in -- The client-therapist relationship -- Should we call it "therapy"?
Summary: 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.-BooksInPrint.
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Book Book Whitecliffe Library Arts Therapy Arts Therapy RC 489 GEN (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 Issued Donated by Glenese Blake, 2018. 10/04/2024 0016356
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 305-310) and index.

Dead ends -- Eight characteristics of an experiential process step -- What the client does to enable an experiential step to come -- What a therapist can do to engender an experiential step -- The crucial bodily attention -- Focusing -- Excerpts from teaching focusing -- Problems of teaching focusing during therapy -- Excerpts from one client's psychotherapy -- A unified view of the field through focusing and the experiential method -- Working with the body: a new and freeing energy -- Role play -- Experiential dream interpretation -- Imagery -- Emotional catharsis, reliving -- Action steps -- Cognitive therapy -- A process view of the superego -- The life-forward direction -- Values -- It fills itself in -- The client-therapist relationship -- Should we call it "therapy"?

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.-BooksInPrint.

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