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Focusing is a psychotherapeutic process developed by psychotherapist Eugene Gendlin.It can be used in any kind of therapeutic situation, including peer-to-peer sessions. It involves holding a kind of open, non-judging attention to an internal knowing which is directly experienced but is not yet in words. Key Words: Eugene Gendlin, experienc-ing, focusing, felt sense ABSTRACT Eugene Gendlin (1996) put forth his own systematic approach to psychother-apy based on phenomenological philoso-phy and Rogerian psychotherapy in sev-eral papers and a book (Gendlin, 1974; Hart, 1970). Gendlin’s approach pro-vides an alternative to, for example, a. Gendlin is a seminal American philosopher and psychologist. He received his Ph.D. In philosophy from the University of Chicago and taught there from 1963 to 1995. His philosophical work is concerned especially with the relationship between logic and implicit intricacy. GENDLIN, PH.D. RULES FOR RESPONSES Felt Meaning Personal problems and difficulties in living are never just cognitive, never only a question of how something is interpreted or understood. There is always an affective, emotional, felt, concrete, experiential difficulty. The individual's thoughts and interpretations flow from, and are.
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- LIVE audio of Gendlin Templeton Lecture at Psychology of Trust and Feeling Conference Stony Brook University, November 17-18, 2006
- The Politics of Giving Therapy Away: Listening and Focusing by Eugene T. Gendlin, PhD.
- Focusing-Oriented Psychotherapy: A Manual of the Experiential Method by Eugene T. Gendlin, Ph.D.
- A Theory of Personality Change by Eugene T. Gendlin, Ph.D. [PDF]
- Gendlin, E.T. (2011). An unclear bodily whole. First part of a lecture given on March 18, 1981, at the Department of Psychology and Pedagogics, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium. Transcript made by Frans Depestele, who also choose this title. The text is not edited by the author. [PDF]
- The Experiential Response
by Eugene T. Gendlin, Ph.D. From Use of Interpretation in Treatment ,1968 [PDF] - A Philosophical Critique of the Concept of Narcissism: The Significance of the Awareness Movement by Eugene T. Gendlin, Ph.D. [PDF]
- Beyond postmodernism: From concepts through experiencing(excerpt) by Eugene T. Gendlin, Ph.D. In Roger Frie (Ed.), Understanding Experience: Psychotherapy and Postmodernism, pp.100-115, Routledge, 2003.
- Celebrations and Problems of Humanistic Psychology by Eugene T. Gendlin, Ph.D. The Humanistic Psychologist, Vol. 20. Nos. 2 and 3, pp. 447-460 Copyright 1992 Division 32, American Psychological Association.
- The Client's Client: The Edge of Awareness by Eugene T. Gendlin, Ph.D.
- Existentialism and experiential psychotherapy by Eugene T. Gendlin, Ph.D. In C. Moustakas (Ed.), Existential child therapy, pp. 206-246. New York: Basic Books, 1966.
- Foreword to 'Carl Rogers: The Quiet Revolutionary, An Oral History' by Eugene T. Gendlin, Ph.D
- Imagery is more powerful with focusing: theory and practice by Eugene T. Gendlin, Ph.D
English (Other Authors)
- Focusing in Changing Abusive Fighting to Constructive Conflict Interactions - RWV Therapy Groups with Domestically Violent Men by Ralph Bierman, Ph.D.
- Changing the Unchangeable: Special Project (CUSP) by Jan Bronson, M.A., NRCPsyA, and Anna Christensen, M.S.W., C.S.W.
- Bundschuh-Müller K. „It is what it is, says love ...“. In: Heidenreich T, Michalak J (Hrsg): Achtsamkeit und Akzeptanz in der Psychotherapie. Tübingen: DGVT-Verlag, 2004: 405-456. Translated into English by Elisabeth Zinschitz. [Word Doc]
- Trauma, Imagery and Focusing by Ton Coffeng. From Person-Centered and Experiential Psychotherapies, Volume 3, Number 4. Paper presented at the 6th World Conference for Person-Centered and Experiential Psychotherapy, Egmond, the Netherlands, July 2003. [PDF]
- The therapy of dissociation, its phases and problems by Ton Coffeng.From Emerging Developments In Pre-Therapy by Prouty, Garry, PCCS Books, UK, (2008). Appeared earlier in Person-Centered and Experiential Psychotherapies 4 (2), 90–105. (Summer 2005). [PDF]
- The Focusing Technique: Confirmatory Knowing Through the Body by Ann Weiser Cornell. In Helen Palmer (Ed.) Inner Knowing, pp. 159-164. Tarcher/Putnam 1998.
- Experiential psychotherapy consists of three therapeutic relationships by Frans Depestele(2014). Paper presented at the Third International Conference On Focusing-Oriented Psychotherapies, May 15-18, 2014, Stony Point Center, Stony Point, New York. [PDF]
- Making therapy experiential: On the practice of integrating focusing in psychotherapy by Frans Depestele (8/7/12) Presentation at the 24th International Focusing Conference, June 6-10, 2012, RCT Vacation and Spa Club, Chapadmalal, Mar del Plata, Buenos Aires province, Argentina. [PDF]
- How to make therapy experiential when the client is far from the experiential level by Frans Depestele. Paper presented at the 25th International Focusing Conference, May 29 - June 2, 2013. Lucerne, Switzerland. [PDF]
- Spiritual Path - in focusing oriented psychotherapy by Ifat Eckstein [Word Doc][PDF]
- Gendlin's Approach to Psychotherapy by Neil Friedman, Ph.D. [PDF]
- The Integration of Focusing with Other Body-Centered Interventions by Neil Friedman, Ph.D.
- Direct Engagement with the Cleared Space in Psychotherapy by Doralee Grindler Katonah, Psy.D., M.Div. From Person-Centered and Experiential Psychotherapies. Vol. 9, #2. 157-169. (2010). [PDF]
- Talking About Differences by Christiane Geiser
- Experiencing Level as a Therapeutic Variable by Marion N. Hendricks, Ph.D.
- A Focusing Group Model for a New Kind of Group Process by Marion N. Hendricks, Ph.D.
- An Experiential Version of Unconditional Positive Regard by Marion N. Hendricks, Ph.D. [PDF]
- Focusing-Oriented/Experiential Psychology by Marion N. Hendricks, Ph.D. This article reviews more than 80 research studies on Focusing and Experiencing Level. It appears in an American Psychological Association publication.
- Focusing-Oriented Experiential Psychotherapy: How To Do It by Marion N. Hendricks, Ph.D. Draft of article published in American Journal of Psychotherapy Vol 61, No 3, (2007), pg 271-84. [PDF]
- Defining the Spiritual Experience, Excerpted from Integrating Spirituality in Counseling: A Manual for Using the Experiential Focusing Method by Elfie Hinterkopf, Ph.D.
- Ms. C’s Focusing and Cognitive Functions by James R. Iberg, Ph.D. Illinois School of Professional Psychology, U.S.A. In Lietaer, G., Rombauts, J., Van Balen, R. (Eds.) Client-centered and experiential psychotherapy in the nineties. Leuven, Belgium: Leuven University Press, 1990. [PDF]
- Finding the Body’s Next Step: Ingredients and Hindrances by James R. Iberg, Ph.D.
- Unconditional Positive Regard: Constituent Activities by James R. Iberg, Ph.D. [PDF]
- Responsive Combodying, Novelty and Therapy. Response to Nick Totten's 'Embodied Relating: The Ground of Psychotherapy' by Akira Ikemi, Ph.D. International Body Psychotherapy Journal. The Art and Science of Somatic Praxis. Volume 13, Number 2 Fall 2014 pp 116-121. Somatic Colloquium - Embodied Relating. www.ibpj.org[PDF]
- Sunflowers, Sardines and Responsive Combodying: Three Perspectives on Embodiment by Akira Ikemi, Ph.D. This is an accepted manuscript of an article published by Taylor & Francis Group in Person-Centered & Experiential Psychotherapies 13 (1) 19-30 (2014) [PDF]
- Integrating Experiential and Brief Therapy: How To Do Deep Therapy - Briefly and How To Do Brief Therapy - Deeply. By Bala Jaison, Ph.D.
- Leratong ~ 'The Place of Love': Focusing in a South African Hospice by Catherine Johnson, Focusing Trainer, South Africa
- Don't Go It Alone: The Power of Focusing Partnerships by Joan Klagsbrun and Lynn Preston. Psychotherapy Networker Magazine. May/June 2015.
- Effect of 'Clearing a Space' on Quality of Life in Women with Breast Cancer by Joan Klagsbrun, Susan Lennox and Lauren Summers [PDF]
- Meaning and Space: Reflections on 'Now, In This Space, 'I' am Facing Something' by Yasushi Kuba [Word Doc][PDF]
- Winnicott's Mindpsyche and Its Treatment by Joan Lavender, Psy. D. [PDF]
- Focusing in Community Psychosocial Wellness: Afghanistan, El Salvador, Pakistan (Slide Show) by Nina Joy Lawrence, Dr. Patricia Omidian, Jerry Conway, and Beatrice Blake (HTML slide show optimized for Internet Explorer) (Flash slide show for other browsers)
- Focusing Microprocesses by Mia Leijssen, Ph.D.
- Focusing, Intersubjectivity, and 'therapeutic intersubjectivity' by Greg Madison
- The relational 'revolutionary pause': How Focusing Therapy welcomes the deeper nature of 'between' by Greg Madison. Published in TFI Newsletter In Focus June 2013
- Focusing-Oriented Supervision by Greg Madison
- Crossing Some Eastern Concepts With The Implicit and Focusing-Oriented Psychotherapy (FOT): Murasato’s Theory of the Co-Grounding of Art, Life, and Mental Illness by Tadayuki Murasato, Satoko Tokumaru, Yoshihiko Morotomi, Hiroki Sakuramoto, Kumie Osako, Yasuhiro Suetake
- Identity Restoration, Posttraumatic Growth and Cultural Connectedness by Alexis Phillips and Shaun Phillips. Published in TFI Newsletter In Focus November 2013
- The Uniting Image and its Contribution to the Therapeutic Process according to the Focusing Approach by Galia Porat and Liora Bar-Natan. Published in TFI Newsletter In Focus September 2013
- A perspective on FOT: The theory and practice of how we integrate experience by Serge Prengel. Published in TFI Newsletter In Focus September 2013
- Gendlin's Contribution to Explorations of the Implicit by Lynn Preston [PDF]
- Two Interwoven Miracles: The Relational Dimension of Focusing Oriented Psychotherapy by Lynn Preston [Word Doc] [PDF]
- Improvisation Provides A Window Into Implicit Processes: Thoughts On Philip Ringstrom's Work, In Dialogue With Philosopher Eugene Gendlin by Lynn Preston [Word Doc][PDF]
- Focusing on focusing: the practice and the philosophy by Campbell Purton
- Concrete Interventions are Crucial: The Influence of the Therapist's Processing Proposals on the Client's Intrapersonal Exploration in Client-Centered Therapy by Rainer Sachse, Ph.D.
- Stillness and Awareness from Person to Person by Astrid Schillings, Cologne
- Being-with the being-without : relational focusing with substance misusers by Alan Tidmarsh. Paper presented to the 22nd International Focusing Conference, 5-9 May 2010 Hohenwart Forum, Germany. [PDF]
- An exploration of Focusing-oriented Therapy for Addictions by Alan Tidmarsh (2013). Doctoral thesis, University of East Anglia. [PDF]
- Focusing Therapy: Some fragments in which the whole can become visible by Johannes Wiltschko, Ph.D.
Deutsch:
- The Experiential Response Eugene T. Gendlin, Ph.D. Übersetzung: Jutta Ossenbach
- Focusing für Lehrerinnen und Lehrer Elmar Kruithoff, Dipl.-Psych., CFT [Word Doc] [PDF]
- Stille und Gewahrsein von Mensch zu Mensch Astrid Schillings, Köln [Word Doc] [PDF]
- Focusing und der Bohmsche Dialog - eine gesellschaftspolitische Vision, Christiane Geiser.
- Bereicherung oder Entfremdung? Ausweitung oder Entgrenzung?
Nachdenken über Weiterentwicklungen und Stolpersteine im personzentrierten Ansatz. Christiane Geiser - „Es ist was es ist sagt die Liebe ...“
Achtsamkeit und Akzeptanz in der Personzentrierten und Experientiellen Psychotherapie, [PDF] Karin Bundschuh-Müller, Chapter 13 from Achtsamkeit und Akzeptanz in der Psychotherapie, Ein Handbuch, Hrsg.Thomas Heidenreich und Johannes Michalak, 2005, dgvt-Verlag, www.dgvt-Verlag.de
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Focusing Eugene Gendlin Pdf Download
- Introducción al Focusing por Eugene T. Gendlin, Ph.D.
- ¿Qué viene después de la investigación tradicional en psicoterapia? Gendlin, E.T. (1986) What Comes After Traditional Psychotherapy Research? En: American Psychologist, Vol. 41, N.° 2, Feb. 1986. pp. 131-136.
- 'Extractos De Un Caso De Psicotherapia' por Eugene T. Gendlin, Ph. D., (Tomados Del Libro El Focusing En Psicoterapia, Capitulo 10). Ediciones Paidos Iberica , España, 1999.
- Cómo hacer la Terapia Experiencial: En la práctica de integrar Focusing a la Psicoterapia por Frans Depestele (julio 2012). Traducción: Dominique Laplacette y Nora Viacava (noviembre 2012). Presentación en el 24vo Congreso Internacional de Focusing, 6 al 10 de junio de 2012, RCT Club Vacacional y Spa. Chapadmalal. Mar del Plata, Provincia de Buenos Aires, Argentina. [PDF]
- Focusing y la Filosofía de lo Implícito por Elena M. Frezza, Clr
- La pertinencia del Focusing en el Enfoque Centrado en la Persona, hoy. por Elena M. Frezza, Clr.
- Cómo trabajar los sueños desde el Focusing por Elena M. Frezza, Clr.
- Counseling Desde El Focusing Una Manera De Ser Counselor por Elena M. Frezza, Clr. (Extractos tomados Del Libro 'Counseling Humanistico, Teoria y Practica Volume II.) Ediciones del Instituto Holos, Centro Argentino de Psicologia Humanistica y Counseling. Argentina 1999.
- Focusing en la atención psicológica a una víctima de un atentado terrorista:
Como utilizar Focusing en un Síndrome de Estrés Agudo Postraumático.` por Isabel Gascón Juste, España, Abril 2004 - Los Microprocesos del Focusing Mia Leijssen, Ph.D.,“Focusing Microprocesses”, en “Experiential Psychotherapy”. Guildford Press (1998).
- Focusing experiencial a través del dibujo Mia Leijssen, Ph.D.,“Experiential Focusing Through Drawing”,The Folio: A Journal for Focusing and Experiential Therapy,Volume 11, Nº3, 1992, pp. 35-40. (Traducción: Denisse Domínguez Cortés.Revisión: Luis Robles Campos.)
- De cómo los sentimientos tienen un lugar propio en la educación por Dr. Salvador Moreno López.
- Los pasos del proceso terapéutico. Cómo surgen y cómo ayudarles a que surjan. Transcripción de la Conferencia Inaugural en el Congreso Internacional de Lovaina (Client-Centered and Experiential Psychotherapy in the Nineties, Sept. 1988). En: Lietaer, G., Rombauts, J., Van Balen, R., (Eds.) (1990) Client-centered and Experiential Psychotherapy in the Nineties. Leuven University Press, Leuven. pp. 205-224.
- Una Teoría Del Cambio de La Personalidad por Eugene T. Gendlin. Universidad de Chicago. Traducción de Edgardo Riveros Aedo. [Word Doc][PDF]
- Una Teoría Sobre la Aceptación Positiva Incondicional en Psicoterapia por Mary Hendricks, Ph.D, Directora Del Instituto De Focusing. Traducción; Antonio Briones y Edgardo Riveros [Word Doc][PDF]
- El Poder del Escuchar por Ann Weiser Cornell. Trabajo presentado en la Conferencia Internacional de Focusing, Shannon, Irlanda, Mayo de 2001. Traducido por Micky Welsh de Villegas. Adaptación en Chile Edgardo Riveros. [Word Doc][PDF]
- Escuchar Experiencial por Neil Friedman. Traducción Edgardo Riveros. [Word Doc][PDF]
- Especie de Glosario en Desorden Alfabético del 'Nuevo Paradigma del Experiencing' de Edgardo Riveros. Jaime Alfredo Escobar Lillo. 2005. [Word Doc][PDF]
- Focusing Una Herramienta Corporal y Mental Para la Autoexploracion y Reducción del Stress por Joan Klagsbrun. Traducción Edgardo Riveros [Word Doc][PDF]
Français:
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- Une théorie du changement de la personnalité par Eugene T. Gendlin, Ph. D.
- Le Focusing par Bernadette Lamboy
- A la Frange de la Conscience Contribution de Gendlin à l’exploration de l’implicite par Lynn Preston Traduit de l’anglais par Danièle Cordon et Sylvie Schoch de Neuforn [Word Doc][PDF]
- FOCUSING: LE CORPS PARLE DE L’INTERIEUR Intervention d’Eugène Gendlin à la 18eme conférence annuelle Internationale sur les traumatismes. Boston MA June 20-23 2007 Traduit par Brigitte Domas[Word Doc][PDF]
Ελληνικά:
- Οι Τρείς «Διαστάσεις» για το Σώμα by Eugene T. Gendlin [Word Doc][PDF]
- Ο «πελάτης» του πελάτη.... by Eugene T. Gendlin [Word Doc][PDF]
- Βιωματική Απόκριση by Eugene T. Gendlin [Word Doc][PDF]
- ΤΑ ΜΙΚΡΑ ΒΗΜΑΤΑ ΤΗΣ ΘΕΡΑΠΕΥΤΙΚΗΣ ΔΙΑΔΙΚΑΣΙΑΣ: ΠΩΣ ΕΡΧΟΝΤΑΙ ΚΑΙ ΠΩΣ ΜΠΟΡΟΥΜΕ ΝΑ ΒΟΗΘΗΣΟΥΜΕ ΓΙΑ ΝΑ ΕΡΘΟΥΝ by Eugene T. Gendlin [Word Doc][PDF]
Hebrew:
עברית :
נתיב רוחני בפסיכותרפיה מוכוונת התמקדות אקשטיין יפעת
(Spiritual Path - in focusing oriented psychotherapy by Ifat Eckstein) [Word Doc][PDF]
Italiano:
- Una Teoria di Modificazione Della Personalita' Eugene T. Gendlin (1964), Traduzione di Rita Luciani [PDF]
- Il Cliente del Cliente: Il Margine Della Coscienza (Sezione I), Eugene T. Gendlin, Traduzione di Emmy Parisi.
- Fondamenti Della Ricera Sulla Psicologia Esperienziale / Orientata al Focusing by Marion N. Hendricks, Ph.D.
Japanese:
- A Theory of Personality Change Eugene T. Gendlin (1964), translated by T. Murase(1966), Zinkaku henka no ichi riron. In Taiken-Katei to Shinri-Ryouho (Experiencing and Psychotherapy) Chapter 1 Section 3. (p39-157) Tokyo: Maki Shoten.
- A Theory of Unconditional Positive Regard in Psychotherapy by Marion N. Hendricks, Ph.D.
Nederlands:
- De Client Van De Client: Randgebieden Van Het Bewustzijn door Eugene T. Gendlin, Ph. D.
- De Evolutie Van De Psychotherapie door Eugene T. Gendlin, Ph.D.
- De therapeutische ruimte(n) vanuit experiëntieel perspectief door Frans Depestele, M.D., M.A. Philosophy
- Focusing en de experiëntiële aspecten van psychotherapie (Focusing and experiential aspects of psychotherapy) by Ton Coffeng. [PDF] In G.Lietaer, G.Vanaerschot, J.A.Snijders & R.J.Takens (Eds), Handboek Gesprekstherapie. de persoonsgerichte experiëntiële benadering. (Handbook counseling and psychotherapy. The person-centered and experiential approach) Utrecht: De Tijdstroom. NL.(2008). See flyer for more info.
- Het ervaringsniveau als therapeutische variabele door Marion N. Hendricks, Ph.D.
- Het Focusingproces door Mia Leijssen.
- In de angstfabriek. De behandeling van dissociërende kinderen met lichaamskaarten, Bart Santen, Tijdschrift Cliëntgerichte Psychotherapie 46, 2008, 3. [PDF] (Dutch translation of: Bart Santen (2007), Into the Fear Factory: Treating Children of Trauma with Body Maps, The Folio, 2007, 1, 60-78. Translation: Bart Santen. [English PDF])
Português:
- Experienciação: uma variável no processo de mudança terapêutica
Eugene T. Gendlin, Ph.D. Tradução: Prof. Ms. João Carlos Caselli Messias - Psicoterapia Experiencial / Orientada pela Focalização: Pesquisa e Prática por Marion N. Hendricks, Ph.D. Traduzido por João Carlos Caselli Messias.
- Celebrações e Problemas da Psicologia Humanista por Eugene T. Gendlin, Ph.D. Tradução: Prof. Ms. João Carlos Caselli Messias
- UM GRUPO DE FOCALIZAÇÃO: Modelo para um novo tipo de Processo Grupal por Marion N. Hendricks, Ph.D. Tradução: Prof. Ms. João Carlos Caselli Messias
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