Emerging Practice in Focusing-Oriented Psychotherapy: Innovative Theory and Applications (Advances in Focusing-Oriented Psychotherapy)

"Emerging Practice in Focusing-Oriented Psychotherapy brings together some of the world's most influential contemporary psychotherapists in the field to look at the future of Focusing-oriented approaches. Focusing-Oriented Psychotherapy - a form of therapy that involves listening to the innate wisdom of the body - is a dynamic and growing field that has evolved greatly since Eugene Gendlin first published the text Focusing-Oriented Psychotherapy in 1996. This book explores recent innovations such as Focusing-Oriented Psychotherapy as a response to trauma, Wholebody Focusing, and how Focusing has been adapted in Japan and South Korea. One section looks at specific contemporary issues and emerging practical applications of Focusing-Oriented Psychotherapy, such as how Focusing can be used in wellbeing counselling and to help decision making processes in counselling and therapy. By offering new alternatives to working effectively with difficult issues and specific client groups, this volume will appeal to a broad range of therapists, coaches, and other practitioners. Jessica Kingsley Publishers also publishes a companion volume, Theory and Practice of Focusing-Oriented Psychotherapy: Beyond the Talking Cure, edited by Greg Madison [9781849053242]."-- Résumé de l'éditeur Emerging Practice in Focusing-Oriented Psychotherapy 3 Foreword 13 Acknowledgements 18 Preface 19 Introduction 21 Part I: Focusing-Oriented Therapy as a Response to Trauma 25 Chapter 1: Trauma, Myths, Focusing 26 Chapter 2: Focusing and Trauma: A Psychotherapist Explores her Own Childhood Trauma 40 Chapter 3: Aboriginal Focusing-Oriented Therapy (AFOT) 50 Part II: Therapeutic Innovations from the “Whole Body” 67 Chapter 4: A Wholebody Focusing-Oriented Approach to Therapeutic Presence: Envisioning New Possibilities for the Therapist/Client Relationship 68 Chapter 5: Dwelling in the Process of Embodied Awareness: Letting Fresh Life Come Through Wholebody Focusing Therapy 83 Chapter 6: Transformational Focusing: Theatre of the Living Body as a Vehicle of Personal/Communal Healing 97 Part III: Focusing in Asian Contexts 113 Chapter 7: Focusing and Naikan, A Uniquely Japanese Way of Therapy: Innovations on Gendlin’s Thought and Practice from the East 114 Chapter 8: Focusing-Oriented Psychotherapy in Korea: Cultural Background, Research Findings and Practice Status 128 Part IV: Applications of Focusing Practice to Specific Issues and Populations 139 Chapter 9: Existential Wellbeing Counselling 140 Chapter 10: The Body Knows the Way: Working with Clients Facing Illness and Dying 156 Chapter 11: Living the Dream: The Evolution of Focusing-Oriented Dream Work 168 Chapter 12: Understanding and Treating Addiction with the Felt Sense Experience Model 180 Chapter 13: Decision-Making Processes in Counselling and Therapy: Some Dead Ends and Ways Out 196 Chapter 14: Focusing with the Consequences of Today’s Stressful Living 212 Chapter 15: Using Space to Facilitate the Focusing Process 228 Part V: The Person Within the Focusing-Oriented Approach 245 Chapter 16: On Becoming a Focusing-Oriented Psychotherapist 246 Chapter 17: One Therapist’s Travel Log 261 Chapter 18: What Lies Beneath? A Client’s Perspective of Focusing-Oriented Therapy 275 Conclusion 286 Contributors 288 Subject Index 294 Author Index 301 Blank Page 2 "Emerging Practice in Focusing-Oriented Psychotherapy brings together some of the world's most influential contemporary psychotherapists in the field to look at the future of Focusing-oriented approaches. Focusing-Oriented Psychotherapy - a form of therapy that involves listening to the innate wisdom of the body - is a dynamic and growing field that has evolved greatly since Eugene Gendlin first published the text Focusing-Oriented Psychotherapy in 1996. This book explores recent innovations such as Focusing-Oriented Psychotherapy as a response to trauma, Wholebody Focusing, and how Focusing has been adapted in Japan and South Korea. One section looks at specific contemporary issues and emerging practical applications of Focusing-Oriented Psychotherapy, such as how Focusing can be used in wellbeing counselling and to help decision making processes in counselling and therapy. By offering new alternatives to working effectively with difficult issues and specific client groups, this volume will appeal to a broad range of therapists, coaches, and other practitioners. Jessica Kingsley Publishers also publishes a companion volume, Theory and Practice of Focusing-Oriented Psychotherapy: Beyond the Talking Cure, edited by Greg Madison [9781849053242]."-- Résumé de l'éditeur Emerging Practice in Focusing-Oriented Psychotherapy brings together some of the world's most influential contemporary psychotherapists in the field to look at the future of Focusing-oriented approaches. Focusing-Oriented Psychotherapy - a form of therapy that involves listening to the innate wisdom of the body - is a dynamic and growing field that has evolved greatly since Eugene Gendlin first introduced this approach to the world in 1996. This book explores recent innovations such as Focusing-Oriented Psychotherapy as a response to trauma, Wholebody Focusing, and how Focusing has been adapted in Japan and South Korea. One section looks at specific contemporary issues and emerging practical applications of Focusing-Oriented Psychotherapy, such as how Focusing can be used in wellbeing counselling and to help decision making processes in counselling and therapy. By offering new alternatives to working effectively with difficult issues and specific client groups, this volume will appeal to a broad range of therapists, coaches, and other practitioners. Jessica Kingsley Publishers also publishes a companion volume, Theory and Practice of Focusing-Oriented Beyond the Talking Cure, edited by Greg Madison [9781849053242]. Examining the cutting edge of Focusing-Oriented Psychotherapy, this book gathers together unique insights into the future of the field from world leading psychotherapists. Covering recent innovations and emerging practical applications, this book offers new ideas for listening to the body in therapy.