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This is a review of Campbell Purton’s Self-Therapy: A Focusing guide written by Richard House for Self and Society, the Journal of the Association of Humanistic Psychology in Britain. Link
CAMPBELL PURTON, Self-Therapy: A Focusing Guide, Eurasia Books, Athens, 2022, 138 pp, ASIN: B0B696R5BR, price (p/b) 14.40 euros. Focusing is essentially about giving attention to the hazy edges of what we already know. This keeping of our attention on the problem as a whole, while allowing new details to emerge, requires serious concentration – trying to attend to what lies beyond what we already feel and think. To use Eugene Gendlin’s picture-language, there are unclear ‘edges’ surrounding the things we can say and think clearly. There’s always more to a situation than we can think or say, and we usually don’t know where exactly in this haziness lies the way forward in our difficulty. Focusing involves noticing where something feels just a bit awry, or incomplete, where something ‘niggles’ us, or we have a hunch, or an inkling about something, but can’t yet put it into words (text adapted from pp. 37–8). Campbell Purton has written extensively on Focusing-oriented psychotherapy (see www.dwelling.me.uk). His earlier books include: Person-Centred Therapy: A Focusing-Oriented Approach (2004) and The Focusing-Oriented Counselling Primer (2007). He was Director of the University of East Anglia’s postgraduate diploma/MA course in Focusing-oriented psychotherapy. Eurasia Books website: https://eurasiabooks.gr/
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