Handbook of Experiential Psychotherapy (Guilford Family Therapy (Hardcover))

Integrating the work of leading client-centered, gestalt, interpersonal, focusing, and process-oriented therapists, Handbook of Experiential Psychotherapy covers both conceptual foundations and current treatment applications. Contributors present well-articulated approaches to treating depression, PTSD, anxiety, and other problems, emphasizing the need to work with the client's own moment-by-moment experience of disturbing states and processes. The volume delineates a variety of experiential methods--from working with clients to symbolize bodily felt sense, evoke memories, and express intense feelings, to helping them reflect on their experience, maintain gains from session to session, and create new meanings for themselves. The role of the therapist's relational stance in promoting particular emotional processes is also examined, and newly developed models of experiential diagnosis and case formulation are described. The book contains black-and-white illustrations. Integrating the work of leading client-centered, gestalt, interpersonal, focusing, and process-oriented therapists, HANDBOOK OF EXPERIENTIAL PSYCHOTHERAPY covers both conceptual foundations and current treatment applications. Contributors present well-articulated approaches to treating depression, PTSD, anxiety, and other problems, emphasizing the need to work with the client's own moment-by-moment experience of disturbing states and processes. The volume delineates a variety of experiential methods:from working with clients to symbolize bodily felt sense, evoke memories, and express intense feelings, to helping them reflect on their experience, maintain gains from session to session, and create new meanings for themseles. The role of the therapist's relational stance in promoting particular emotional processes is also examined, and newly developed models of experiential diagnosis and case formulation are described. Cover Contents I HISTORY AND THEORY 1 The Experiential Paradigm Unfolding: Relationship and Experiencing in Therapy 2 The Theory of Experience-Centered Therapies II FOUNDATIONAL PROCESSES 3 Empathic: A Postmodern Way of Being? 4 Dialogic Gestalt Therapy 5 Existential Processes 6 Focusing Microprocesses 7 Interpersonal Processes 8 The Person as Active Agent in Experiential Therapy 9 How Can Impressive In-Session Changes Become Impressive Postsession Changes? III DIFFERENTIAL TREATMENT APPLICATIONS 10 Process-Experiential Therapy of Depression 11 Process-Experiential Therapy for Posttraumatic Stress Difficulties 12 Experiential Psychotherapy of the Anxiety Disorders 13 Goal-Oriented Client-Centered Psychotherapy of Psychosomatic Disorders 14 Experiential Psychodrama with Sexual Trauma 15 The Treatment of Borderline Personality Disorder 16 A Client-Centered Approach to Therapeutic Work with Dissociated and Fragile Process 17 Pre-Therapy and Pre-Symbolic Experiencing: Evolutions in Person-Centered/Experiential Approaches to Psychotic Experience 18 Psychopathology According to the Differential Incongruence Model 19 Diagnosing in the Here and Now: A Gestalt Therapy Approach IV CONCLUSION 20 Experiential Therapy: Identity and Challenges Index A B C D E F G H I M O P R S T "Integrating the work of leading client-centered, Gestalt, interpersonal, focusing, and process-oriented therapists, this Handbook covers both conceptual foundations and current treatment applications. Contributors present well-articulated approaches to treating depression, PTSD, anxiety, and other problems, emphasizing the need to work with the client's own moment-by-moment experience of disturbing states and processes. The volume delineates a variety of experiential methods - from working with clients to symbolize bodily felt sense, evoke memories, and express intense feelings, to helping them reflect on their experience and create new meanings for themselves."--Jacket