Handbook Of Experiential Psychotherapy

Integrating the work of leading therapists, the book covers both conceptual foundations and current treatment applications. The volume delineates a variety of experiential methods, and describes newly developed models of experiential diagnosis and case formulation.

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Couple psychotherapy can be significantly deepened and expedited by using present-time experience in the assessment process and by incorporating experiential interventions, says Fisher. Presumably a practitioner himself, he explains to fellow therapists how to do it, detailing the application of a b

This voluminous book of 47 chapters offers a good cross section of what is burgeoing in the field of client-centered and experiential psychotherapy on the threshold of the nineties. it does not represent a single vision but gives the floor to the various suborientations: classics Rogerians; client-centered therapists who favor some form of integration or even eclecticism; experiential psychotherapists for whom Gendlin's focusing approach is a precious way of working; client-centered therapists who look at the therapy process in terms of information-processing; existentially oriented therapists... Remarkable is that - for the first time in the history of client-centered/experiential psychotherapy - the European voice rings through forcefully: more than half of the contributions were written by authors from Western Europe.Several chapters contain reflections on the evolution—past, present, and future—of client-centered/experiential psychotherapy. The intensive research into the process, which had a central place in the initial phase of client-centered therapy, is given here ample attention, with several creative studies and proposals for renewal. In numerous contributions efforts are made to build and further develop a theroy of psychopathology, the client's process, the basic attitudes and task-oriented interventions of the therapist. The chapters dealing with clinical practice typically aim at the description of

Books about Experiential Psychotherapy

This book provides both experienced and novice clinicians with a thorough guide to this increasingly popular form of therapy. This timely resource outlines the theoretical underpinnings of experiential psychotherapy, explores how the experiential model relates to other forms of therapy, and describes, in detail, how to practice this unique form of therapy. Using vivid case examples, it offers therapists a step-by-step guide to helping clients experience, understand, and re-direct their feelings.

With a strong emphasis on personal transformation as essential to therapy, Deep Journeys explores how experiential therapy can supplement analytic and interpretative therapies. Kenneth Kelzer shows how therapists, using a trance induction process, can work with clients' dreams and personal archetypes to help them understand and heal the causes of their emotional symptoms.

Books about Client-centered and Experiential Psychotherapy

This book includes 39 papers presented at the International Conference on Client-Centered and Experiential Psychotherapy held in Chicago in May 2000. This international collection of papers, spanning theory and practice across classical client-centred to experiential psychotherapy, offers a rich diversity of thinking and opinion.

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