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Focusing: How to open up your deeper feelings and intuition
Eugene Gendlin
First published in 1978, this edition was published by Rider in 2003.
ISBN 184413220X.
This is the original book that made Focusing available to the public.
It breaks Focusing into six steps and has many examples. This is a
good beginning introduction to the process.
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Focusing-Oriented Psychotherapy: a manual of the experiential method
Eugene Gendlin
Published in 1996 by Guilford Press. ISBN: 157230376X
Examining the actual moment-to-moment process of therapy, this volume
provides specific ways for therapists to engender effective movement,
particularly in those difficult times when nothing seems to be
happening. The book concentrates on the ongoing client therapist
relationship and ways in which the therapist's responses can stimulate
and enable a client's capacity for direct experiencing and "focusing."
Throughout, the client therapist relationship is emphasized, both as a
constant factor and in terms of how the quality of the relationship is
manifested at specific times. The author also shows how certain
relational responses can turn some difficulties into moments of
relational therapy.
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Let Your Body Interpret your Dreams
Eugene Gendlin
Published in 1985 by Chiron Publications. ISBN: 0933029012
This book shows how Gendlin's method of tapping the body's responses
can be applied to the understanding and appreciation of one's
dreams. He implies, rightly, that there are many ways of interpreting
dreams, based on various theoretical approaches, each with its own
validity. Yet, what really counts is the dreamer's somatic response to
questions raised or interpretations suggested; the body has the
answer.
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The Power of Focusing: A Practical Guide to Emotional Self-Healing.
Ann Weiser Cornell
Published in 1996 by New
Harbinger Publications. ISBN 157224044X.
This slender volume is the culmination of Ann Weiser Cornell's
search for a way to show focusing that many people find easy to
understand and follow. There are many examples, sections on typical
problems and questions, how to Focus alone and also how to work with a
partner, and how to bring Focusing into a therapy setting from the
point of view of the therapist or the client. More
details here.
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The Radical Acceptance of Everything: Living a Focusing Life
Ann Weiser Cornell, and featuring Barbara McGavin
Published in 2005 by Calluna Press
Ann Weiser Cornell's key writings have been brought together in one
place, freshly edited for this volume, with four new articles offering
her latest leading edge work. All are accessible to both the seeker of
personal change and the professional who wants to be more effective
working with others.
Copies can be ordered from Focusing Resources.
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The Focusing Student's and Companion's Manual: Part One
Ann Weiser Cornell and Barbara McGavin
Published in 2002 by Calluna Press.
ISBN 0 972015808 (part one) ISBN, 0 972015824 (two part set).
In Part One, you learn
enough about Focusing and being a Companion to
begin practicing immediately, with support for partnerships, practice
groups, and solo Focusing. Part One replaces the former "Focusing
Student's Manual".
Sections covered: The Door Opens, Finding Companions, Making Focusing
Your Own, Dwelling at the Edge, The Power of Presence, Becoming
Companions.
Copies can be ordered from Barbara
McGavin.
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The Focusing Student's and Companion's Manual: Part Two
Barbara McGavin and Ann Weiser Cornell
Published in 2002 by Calluna Press.
ISBN 0 972015816 (part two) ISBN 0 972015824 (two part set).
Part Two goes deeper, exploring some of the more subtle and
challenging
aspects of the Focusing process, including what has traditionally been
called "guiding", now renamed Reminding. Part Two replaces the former
"Focusing Guide's Manual". Sections Covered: Going Deeper, The Path of
the Companion, A Reminder or
Two, Presence and Partiality.
Copies can be ordered from Barbara
McGavin.
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Person-Centred Therapy: the focusing-oriented approach
Campbell Purton
Published in 2004 by Palgrave Macmillan.
ISBN 0333969162. More details here.
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For information on more focusing books, try
the store at the
Focusing Institute web site.
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