The classic guide to a powerful
technique for personal transformation

Based on groundbreaking research conducted at the University of Chicago, the focusing technique has gained widespread popularity and scholarly acclaim. It consists of six easy-to-master steps that identify and change the way thoughts and emotions are held within the body. Focusing can be done virtually anywhere, at any time, and an entire "session" can take no longer than ten minutes, but its effects can be felt immediately-in the relief of bodily tension and psychological stress, as well as in dramatic shifts in...

This groundbreaking work speaks from the frontiers of philosophy. In Experiencing and the Creation of Meaning, Eugene Gendlin examines the edge of awareness, where language emerges from nonlanguage. In moving back and forth between what is already verbalized and what is as yet unarticulated, he shows how experiencing functions in the transitions between one formulation and the next. A whole array of more than logical "characteristics" enables us to examine as well as to employ this new kind of thinking, which is not merely conceptual because it begins from the intricacy of felt meaning...

Focusing-Oriented Psychotherapy: The Experiential Method addresses specific ways in which a therapist can engender the therapeutic process, especially with clients with whom nothing effective is happening. Working with transcripts of actual sessions, the author examines each client statement to show where therapeutic movement has taken place and then each therapist response to show how it did or did not help bring about a kind of direct bodily experiencing called "focusing." What the author shows can be used in any orientation of therapy. Individual chapters address bodily energy, action,...

Mit Hilfe von Focusing, einer Form nach innen gerichteter Aufmerksamkeit, knnen die Selbstheilungskrfte des Krpers mobilisiert werden. Focusing ist in jede Therapieform integrierbar, gestaltet jede Therapie effektiver.

Die Weisheit der Träume erleben

Wie Träume sich mit Hilfe der Focusing-Technik erschließen, stellt der Autor Schritt für Schritt an Beispielen dar. Darüber hinaus zeigt er theoretisch wie praktisch, wie sich schon bestehende Traumtheorien mit einer neuen und überraschenden Sicht auf das Träumen verbinden lassen.