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Focusing-Oriented Psychotherapy: A Manual of the Experiential Method

Eugene T. Gendlin

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Introduction. Focusing and Listening. Dead Ends. Eight Characteristics of and Experiential Process Step. What the Individual 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. Integrating Other Therapeutic Methods. 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 of the Superego. The Life-Forward Direction. Values 22. It Fills Itself In. The Client-Therapist Relationship.

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Introduction. Focusing and Listening. Dead Ends. Eight Characteristics of and Experiential Process Step. What the Individual 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. Integrating Other Therapeutic Methods. 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 of the Superego. The Life-Forward Direction. Values 22. It Fills Itself In. The Client-Therapist Relationship.

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Introduction. Focusing and Listening. Dead Ends. Eight Characteristics of and Experiential Process Step. What the Individual 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. Integrating Other Therapeutic Methods. 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 of the Superego. The Life-Forward Direction. Values 22. It Fills Itself In. The Client-Therapist Relationship.

Key concepts: Experiential learning, Psychology, Psychotherapist, Active listening, Catharsis, Action (physics), Interpretation (philosophy), Id, ego and super-ego

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