In the first of the two volumes of Senses of Focusing, a wide range of authors from around the world bring fresh thinking to the meaning of ‘Focusing’ and how Eugene Gendlin’s work grew from and has developed different elements of philosophy and psychotherapy, particularly within the Client-Centred tradition. The meaning of ‘Focusing’ and the ‘Felt sense’ are considered and re-examined; the close relationship between Focusing and Eastern traditions is explored by authors from Japan and China; the relevance of Focusing to the existential challenges that we face are seen not only in terms of personal meaning, but also in relation to current global and political crises; the evolution of new developments in Focusing practice are described; different considerations are brought to bear in relation to working with physical illness and the body and the volume concludes with a section on ‘Body Mapping’ and ‘Children Focusing’.
Contributors to this volume:
Sara Bradly, Ann Weiser Cornell, Frans Depestele, Akiko Doi, Akira Ikemi, Joan Klagsbrun, Nikolaos Kypriotakis, Mary Jeanne Larrabee, Nada Lou, Sarah Luczaj, Greg Madison, Barbara McGavin, Kathy McGuire, Julian A. Miller, Claude Missiaen, Judy Moore, Tadayuki Murasato, Atsmaout Perlstein, Campbell Purton, Bart Santen, Astrid Schillings, Donata Schoeller, Ernesto Spinelli, Tine Swyngedouw, Hideo Tanaka, Alan Tidmarsh, Siebrecht Vanhooren, René Veugelers, Johannes Wiltschko, Jun Xu, Pavlos Zarogiannis
Contributors to this volume:
Sara Bradly, Ann Weiser Cornell, Frans Depestele, Akiko Doi, Akira Ikemi, Joan Klagsbrun, Nikolaos Kypriotakis, Mary Jeanne Larrabee, Nada Lou, Sarah Luczaj, Greg Madison, Barbara McGavin, Kathy McGuire, Julian A. Miller, Claude Missiaen, Judy Moore, Tadayuki Murasato, Atsmaout Perlstein, Campbell Purton, Bart Santen, Astrid Schillings, Donata Schoeller, Ernesto Spinelli, Tine Swyngedouw, Hideo Tanaka, Alan Tidmarsh, Siebrecht Vanhooren, René Veugelers, Johannes Wiltschko, Jun Xu, Pavlos Zarogiannis
The second volume of Senses of Focusing carries exploration of the many ‘senses’ of ‘focusing’ in new directions, beginning with the crucial area of ‘spirituality’ and the wisdom of ‘dreams’. The value of living and working from inner experiencing ‘in individual lives and in therapeutic practice’ is explored across a variety of cultures as well as through different manifestations in the ‘Arts’, specifically poetry, theatre and music. A section on Focusing in ‘science and neuroscience’ is followed by cross-cultural takes on the theory and practice of ‘Thinking at the Edge’ and a section on the significance of the body’s knowing in ‘ethics and decision-making’. The volume concludes with an examination of Eugene Gendlin’s contribution to Client-Centred Therapy and examples of how his work is now regarded by more recent theorists and practitioners of the Person-Centred Approach.
Contributors to this volume:
Peter Afford, Stephanie Aspin, Friedgard Blob, Peter Campbell (with John Keane and Dave Young), Mick Cooper, Leslie Ellis, Isabel Gascón Juste, Svetlana Kutokova, Nikolaos Kypriotakis, Mia Leijssen, Monika Lindner, Nada Lou, Anna Magee, Judy Moore, Salvador Moreno-López, Tomonori Motoyama, Jenny Newman, Rob Parker, Fiona Parr, Michael Seibel, Yael Teff-Seker, Brian Thorne, Satoko Tokumaru, Zoe Voulgaraki, Greg Walkerden, Jen White
Contributors to this volume:
Peter Afford, Stephanie Aspin, Friedgard Blob, Peter Campbell (with John Keane and Dave Young), Mick Cooper, Leslie Ellis, Isabel Gascón Juste, Svetlana Kutokova, Nikolaos Kypriotakis, Mia Leijssen, Monika Lindner, Nada Lou, Anna Magee, Judy Moore, Salvador Moreno-López, Tomonori Motoyama, Jenny Newman, Rob Parker, Fiona Parr, Michael Seibel, Yael Teff-Seker, Brian Thorne, Satoko Tokumaru, Zoe Voulgaraki, Greg Walkerden, Jen White
Το Focusing, η Focusing Θεραπεία και η Φιλοσοφία του Υπόρρητου
Μέσα στις σελίδες των δύο αυτών τόμων πολλά στοιχεία της θεωρίας και της πρακτικής της Διαδικασίας Εστίασης (Focusing) εξετάζονται, συμπεριλαμβανομένων των διαφορετικών προσλήψεων αυτής της ίδιας της Διαδικασίας Εστίασης (Focusing) και της Focusing Θεραπείας, όπως αυτά γίνονται κατανοητά και εξασκούνται ή εφαρμόζονται στην πράξη σε μια πληθώρα διαφορετικών πολιτισμικών και άλλων πλαισίων.
Τα πολιτισμικά εκείνα στοιχεία καθώς και εκείνα τα στοιχεία φιλοσοφικής σκέψης που προηγούνται προγονικά και προδιαγράφουν και στηρίζουν την διατύπωση από τον Eugene Gendlin της Φιλοσοφίας του Υπόρρητου (ή της Υπορρητότητας) καθώς και της Focusing Θεραπείας διερευνώνται από ένα ευρύ φάσμα συγγραφέων. Αντλώντας από πηγές που προέρχονται από την φιλοσοφία, την επιστήμη, τις τέχνες και την θρησκεία, επιδεικνύουν ότι η «Διαδικασία Εστίασης» (Focusing) υπάρχει σε διάφορες μορφές μέσα στους αιώνες πριν να φτάσει να βρει το όνομά της στα μέσα του εικοστού αιώνα και να μετατραπεί και αυτή η ίδια σε «δομή» ή «κατασκευή» ή «μέθοδο».
Eξετάζονται oρισμένες από τις πολλές εφαρμογές του Focusing, συμπεριλαμβανομένης της χρήσης της χαρτογράφησης σώματος με παιδιά και ενήλικες, πώς το Focusing μπορεί να βοηθήσει όταν εργάζεστε θεραπευτικά με σωματικές ασθένειες, πώς το Focusing μπορεί να εφαρμοστεί στην θεραπευτική εργασία με όνειρα, πώς η μέθοδος Thinking at the Edge (TAE) (Βιωματική Σκέψη ή Σκέψη στο Όριο της Επίγνωσης ή της Συνειδητότητας) (η οποία βασίζεται στο Focusing) μπορεί να προσφέρει νέα διορατικότητα και κατανόηση και, τέλος, πώς η πρακτική του Focusing μπορεί να βοηθήσει στην λήψη αποφάσεων και στην καθημερινή ζωή.
Και στους δύο τόμους. σε όλο το εύρος τους, παραθέτονται αποσπάσματα προφορικού λόγου του Gendlin.
Focusing, FOT and the Philosophy of the Implicit
Within these volumes many elements of Focusing theory and practice are addressed, including different takes on Focusing and Focusing-oriented Therapy as it is understood and practised in a variety of cultures and contexts.
The thinking and cultural precedents that prefigure and underpin Eugene Gendlin’s formulation of the Philosophy of the Implicit and Focusing-oriented Therapy are explored by a wide range of authors. Drawing on sources from philosophy, science, the Arts and religion, they demonstrate that ‘Focusing’ has existed in various forms across the centuries before it found its mid-twentieth century name and became itself reified into a ‘construct’.
Some of the many applications of Focusing are considered, including the use of body-mapping with children and adults, how Focusing can help when working with physical illness, how Focusing can be applied to dreams, how Thinking at the Edge (TAE) can bring new insight and understanding and how the practice of Focusing can help with decision-making and everyday living.
Gendlin’s own spoken words are interspersed throughout the volumes.
Μέσα στις σελίδες των δύο αυτών τόμων πολλά στοιχεία της θεωρίας και της πρακτικής της Διαδικασίας Εστίασης (Focusing) εξετάζονται, συμπεριλαμβανομένων των διαφορετικών προσλήψεων αυτής της ίδιας της Διαδικασίας Εστίασης (Focusing) και της Focusing Θεραπείας, όπως αυτά γίνονται κατανοητά και εξασκούνται ή εφαρμόζονται στην πράξη σε μια πληθώρα διαφορετικών πολιτισμικών και άλλων πλαισίων.
Τα πολιτισμικά εκείνα στοιχεία καθώς και εκείνα τα στοιχεία φιλοσοφικής σκέψης που προηγούνται προγονικά και προδιαγράφουν και στηρίζουν την διατύπωση από τον Eugene Gendlin της Φιλοσοφίας του Υπόρρητου (ή της Υπορρητότητας) καθώς και της Focusing Θεραπείας διερευνώνται από ένα ευρύ φάσμα συγγραφέων. Αντλώντας από πηγές που προέρχονται από την φιλοσοφία, την επιστήμη, τις τέχνες και την θρησκεία, επιδεικνύουν ότι η «Διαδικασία Εστίασης» (Focusing) υπάρχει σε διάφορες μορφές μέσα στους αιώνες πριν να φτάσει να βρει το όνομά της στα μέσα του εικοστού αιώνα και να μετατραπεί και αυτή η ίδια σε «δομή» ή «κατασκευή» ή «μέθοδο».
Eξετάζονται oρισμένες από τις πολλές εφαρμογές του Focusing, συμπεριλαμβανομένης της χρήσης της χαρτογράφησης σώματος με παιδιά και ενήλικες, πώς το Focusing μπορεί να βοηθήσει όταν εργάζεστε θεραπευτικά με σωματικές ασθένειες, πώς το Focusing μπορεί να εφαρμοστεί στην θεραπευτική εργασία με όνειρα, πώς η μέθοδος Thinking at the Edge (TAE) (Βιωματική Σκέψη ή Σκέψη στο Όριο της Επίγνωσης ή της Συνειδητότητας) (η οποία βασίζεται στο Focusing) μπορεί να προσφέρει νέα διορατικότητα και κατανόηση και, τέλος, πώς η πρακτική του Focusing μπορεί να βοηθήσει στην λήψη αποφάσεων και στην καθημερινή ζωή.
Και στους δύο τόμους. σε όλο το εύρος τους, παραθέτονται αποσπάσματα προφορικού λόγου του Gendlin.
Focusing, FOT and the Philosophy of the Implicit
Within these volumes many elements of Focusing theory and practice are addressed, including different takes on Focusing and Focusing-oriented Therapy as it is understood and practised in a variety of cultures and contexts.
The thinking and cultural precedents that prefigure and underpin Eugene Gendlin’s formulation of the Philosophy of the Implicit and Focusing-oriented Therapy are explored by a wide range of authors. Drawing on sources from philosophy, science, the Arts and religion, they demonstrate that ‘Focusing’ has existed in various forms across the centuries before it found its mid-twentieth century name and became itself reified into a ‘construct’.
Some of the many applications of Focusing are considered, including the use of body-mapping with children and adults, how Focusing can help when working with physical illness, how Focusing can be applied to dreams, how Thinking at the Edge (TAE) can bring new insight and understanding and how the practice of Focusing can help with decision-making and everyday living.
Gendlin’s own spoken words are interspersed throughout the volumes.
Προσωποκεντρική & Βιωματική Προσέγγιση
στην Ψυχοθεραπεία την Συμβουλευτική και την Εκπαίδευση
Το Focusing προήλθε από την Πελατο-κεντρική Θεραπεία και από τη στενή συνεργασία που υπήρχε την δεκαετία του 1950 και στις αρχές της δεκαετίας του ’60 μεταξύ του Eugene Gendlin και του Carl Rogers. Ο Gendlin επέμεινε ότι εάν οι πρώτοι από τους ασκούμενους στην Πελατο-κεντρική Θεραπεία είχαν κατανοήσει καλύτερα την διαδικασία της βιωματικής απόκρισης, δηλαδή την «εστίαση στο αισθητό ‘όριο’ του βιώματος», δεν θα υπήρχε ανάγκη να υπάρχουν δύο ξεχωριστές θεραπείες: Προσωποκεντρική Θεραπεία και Focusing Θεραπεία (Focusing-Oriented Therapy).
Η πρώιμη έρευνα στο πλαίσιο της Πελατο-κεντρικής Θεραπείας έδειξε ότι η «Διαδικασία Εστίασης» (Focusing) / Βιωματική Απόκριση είναι ο κρίσιμος παράγοντας για την επιτυχή θεραπεία.
Στην ηπειρωτική Ευρώπη, το Focusing ενσωματώνεται συχνότερα στην Προσωποκεντρική εκπαίδευση στην ψυχοθεραπεία ως Προσωποκεντρική & Βιωματική Θεραπεία (PCE), αλλά σε κάποιες περιοχές των ΗΠΑ και του Ηνωμένου Βασιλείου (και αλλού) το Focusing συχνά χαρακτηρίζεται ως «τεχνική».
Οι τόμοι αυτοί, οι οποίοι διευρύνονται σε πολλές κατευθύνσεις για να επιδείξουν μυριάδες εκδηλώσεις «της εστίασης στο αισθητό ‘όριο’ του βιώματος» σε διαφορετικά πολιτισμικά και άλλα πλαίσια, προσκαλούν επίσης σε μια επανεκτίμηση του Focusing ως Διαδικασία Εστίασης καθώς και μια βαθύτερη κατανόηση του ρόλου του/της στην Προσωποκεντρική θεραπευτική πρακτική.
PCA/ PCE
Focusing originated in Client-Centred Therapy and in the close collaboration that existed in the 1950s and early 60s between Eugene Gendlin and Carl Rogers. Gendlin insisted that if early practitioners of Client-Centred Therapy had better understood the experiential response, i.e. ‘focusing on the felt edge of experiencing’, there would have been no need for there to be two separate therapies: Person-Centred Therapy and Focusing-oriented Therapy (FOT).
The early research into Client-Centred Therapy demonstrated that it is the ‘focusing’/ experiential response that is the critical factor in successful therapy.
In mainland Europe, Focusing is more commonly integrated into Person-Centred training as Person-Centred Experiential Therapy (PCE), but in some parts of the US and UK (and elsewhere) Focusing is often dismissed as a ‘technique’.
These volumes, which range in many directions to demonstrate myriad manifestations of ‘focusing on the felt edge of experiencing’ in different cultures and contexts also invite a re-evaluation of ‘focusing’ and a deeper understanding of its role in Person-Centred practice.
στην Ψυχοθεραπεία την Συμβουλευτική και την Εκπαίδευση
Το Focusing προήλθε από την Πελατο-κεντρική Θεραπεία και από τη στενή συνεργασία που υπήρχε την δεκαετία του 1950 και στις αρχές της δεκαετίας του ’60 μεταξύ του Eugene Gendlin και του Carl Rogers. Ο Gendlin επέμεινε ότι εάν οι πρώτοι από τους ασκούμενους στην Πελατο-κεντρική Θεραπεία είχαν κατανοήσει καλύτερα την διαδικασία της βιωματικής απόκρισης, δηλαδή την «εστίαση στο αισθητό ‘όριο’ του βιώματος», δεν θα υπήρχε ανάγκη να υπάρχουν δύο ξεχωριστές θεραπείες: Προσωποκεντρική Θεραπεία και Focusing Θεραπεία (Focusing-Oriented Therapy).
Η πρώιμη έρευνα στο πλαίσιο της Πελατο-κεντρικής Θεραπείας έδειξε ότι η «Διαδικασία Εστίασης» (Focusing) / Βιωματική Απόκριση είναι ο κρίσιμος παράγοντας για την επιτυχή θεραπεία.
Στην ηπειρωτική Ευρώπη, το Focusing ενσωματώνεται συχνότερα στην Προσωποκεντρική εκπαίδευση στην ψυχοθεραπεία ως Προσωποκεντρική & Βιωματική Θεραπεία (PCE), αλλά σε κάποιες περιοχές των ΗΠΑ και του Ηνωμένου Βασιλείου (και αλλού) το Focusing συχνά χαρακτηρίζεται ως «τεχνική».
Οι τόμοι αυτοί, οι οποίοι διευρύνονται σε πολλές κατευθύνσεις για να επιδείξουν μυριάδες εκδηλώσεις «της εστίασης στο αισθητό ‘όριο’ του βιώματος» σε διαφορετικά πολιτισμικά και άλλα πλαίσια, προσκαλούν επίσης σε μια επανεκτίμηση του Focusing ως Διαδικασία Εστίασης καθώς και μια βαθύτερη κατανόηση του ρόλου του/της στην Προσωποκεντρική θεραπευτική πρακτική.
PCA/ PCE
Focusing originated in Client-Centred Therapy and in the close collaboration that existed in the 1950s and early 60s between Eugene Gendlin and Carl Rogers. Gendlin insisted that if early practitioners of Client-Centred Therapy had better understood the experiential response, i.e. ‘focusing on the felt edge of experiencing’, there would have been no need for there to be two separate therapies: Person-Centred Therapy and Focusing-oriented Therapy (FOT).
The early research into Client-Centred Therapy demonstrated that it is the ‘focusing’/ experiential response that is the critical factor in successful therapy.
In mainland Europe, Focusing is more commonly integrated into Person-Centred training as Person-Centred Experiential Therapy (PCE), but in some parts of the US and UK (and elsewhere) Focusing is often dismissed as a ‘technique’.
These volumes, which range in many directions to demonstrate myriad manifestations of ‘focusing on the felt edge of experiencing’ in different cultures and contexts also invite a re-evaluation of ‘focusing’ and a deeper understanding of its role in Person-Centred practice.
Senses of Focusing, Vol. I
Contents
About the Editors
Notes on Contributors
Acknowledgements
Notes on style and conventions
Foreword, by Catherine Torpey, Executive Director, The International Focusing Institute (TIFI), New York
Prologue
Preface (with ‘A general outline of volume Ι’)
Introduction: What is Focusing and where did it come from? by Judy Moore
Section 1: Focusing reconsidered
1 Pavlos Zarogiannis, Homo experientialis
2 Akira Ikemi, Stop to appreciate Gene’s legacy and then step forward: Developments from Gendlin’s Focusing
3 Hideo Tanaka, Tapping ‘it’ lightly and the short silence: Applying the concept of ‘direct reference’ to the discussion of verbatim records of Focusing sessions
4 Sarah Luczaj, Focusing is not a ‘thing’
5 Nikolaos Kypriotakis, Sense, no-sense, non-sense: Paradoxes, dialectics and inquiry
Section 2: The felt sense reconsidered
6 Campbell Purton, The role of the body in Focusing
7 Donata Schoeller, Felt sense—A beautiful yet misleading term: trials, errors and opportunities
8 Ann Weiser Cornell & Barbara McGavin, Outside our awareness: Focusing with what is not felt
Section 3: ‘Senses’ of Focusing in different cultures and contexts
9 Tadayuki Murasato, Understanding Master Dogen’s ‘Genjo Koan’ from the perspective of ‘A Process Model’
10 Jun Xu, A brief history of the felt sense in East Asia before the appearance of Focusing: The Chinese Book of Changes, Dewu and riddles, Qigong, the way of ‘Hua Tou’
11 Akiko Doi, Recovering your strength, passion and love in life: Focusing for empowering helpers and company workers
Section 4: Focusing and existential challenges
12 Greg Madison & Ernesto Spinelli, The body as phenomenologist: The existential challenge to Identity Politics
13 Claude Missiaen & Siebrecht Vanhooren, Facing our existential demons: A Focusing-oriented and existential approach
14 Alan Tidmarsh, Focusing with elephants
15 Joan Klagsbrun & Julian A. Miller, Acknowledging the dark and embracing the light in the time of Covid-19
Section 5: Developing new practices
16 Kathy McGuire, Empathy Focusing and the power of ‘I-Thou’ in healing self, other, world: A feminine-ist analysis of Focusing together and Focusing alone
17 Mary Jeanne Larrabee, Opening the process, processing the opening: Open Process Focusing and modalities of Creative Expression Focusing
18 Johannes Wiltschko, On Focusing Therapy: Questions about and answers to some essential aspects
Section 6: Different ‘takes’ on the body
19 Frans Depestele, A process theory of physical illness: Medicine and psychotherapy
20 Tine Swyngedouw, Exploring the quality of life with chronic illness or cancer: The experiential four-leaf clover
21 Astrid Schilllings, Focusing with the Whole Body: The Bodying Person
Section 7: Body mapping and Children Focusing
22 Bart Santen, Focusing-oriented body mapping: Scanning the imprint of trauma. My experiences with dissociated adolescents
23 Atsmaout Perlstein, Working with KOL*BE Body Mapping in Focusing-Oriented Therapy
24 René Veugelers, Listening in three directions: A dynamic and fresh way to be in a Focusing process
25 Sara Bradly, Introducing Focusing to children using a story: Enabling children to connect and work with emotional issues in the context of humanistic brief therapy
Gendlin’s spoken words, recorded by Nada Lou
Fragments from video clips: Transcription of extracts from video clips
Focusing is not something that I invented
Focusing comes from philosophy
Tell people about Focusing
Focusing is… the murky edge
Very slight bodily feeling we call felt sense
Focusing fits in Japan
Not knowing
Peace—Our town
Focusing alone
Our bodies are at least plants
Why Focusing works
Does Focusing bring hope?
Index
Senses of Focusing, Vol. II
Contents
About the Editors
Notes on Contributors
Acknowledgements
Notes on style and conventions
Foreword, by Mia Leijssen, Professor Emeritus, University of Leuven
Prologue
Preface (with ‘A general outline of volume ΙΙ’)
Introduction: New Focusing. Random thoughts about ‘nakedness’, nonsensical and appropriations, by Nikolaos Kypriotakis
Section 1: Focusing, spirituality and dreams
1 Mia Leijssen, Living forward: The challenge of carrying forward Gendlin’s legacy
2 Peter A. Campbell, Exploring the body’s role within BioSpiritual development. Unfolding an elusive, yet bodily-felt interiority within serious seekers (With contributions from John Keane and David Young)
3 Greg Walkerden, Focusing, vastness and union: Elaborating the Focusing practice tradition and the Philosophy of the Implicit to describe an additional kind of space
4 Fiona Parr, Focusing and practical spirituality—A personal approach: How Focusing contributes to the ‘death of the ego’
5 Leslie Ellis, Gendlin’s unique contribution to dreamwork: Embodying helpful and contrary elements to bring in the new
Section 2: ‘Senses’ of Focusing in individual lives and in therapeutic practice
6 Salvador Moreno-López, Everyday life is enriched by the Philosophy of the Implicit and Focusing
7 Zoe Voulgaraki, Meeting with the Other
8 Svetlana Kutukova, Focusing possibilities in the psychotherapeutic process: Two case studies
9 Isabel Gascón, The mother-daughter relationship: Focusing contributions
Section 3: ‘Senses’ of Focusing in the Arts
10 Michael Seibel, Bodily awareness as a necessary condition for creative work in the aesthetic production process in acting
11 Stephanie Aspin, Writing at the edge
12 Jen White, ‘It lulls me into a false sense of security, but I go there willingly’; music resonates with stopped process: An IPA study into musical experiencing unravelled through music and Focusing
13 Judy Moore, Poets, mystics, Focusers and the physicality of spiritual opening
Section 4: ‘Senses’ of Focusing in science and neuroscience
14 Rob Parker, Re-visioning science: A process model of the double slit experiment
15 Peter Afford, The felt sense, the body & the brain
Section 5: TAE: Theory and living applications
16a Satoko Tokumaru, Three-part TAE and the website ‘TAE Reflection’
16b Satoko Tokumaru (with Nikolaos Kypriotakis and Judy Moore), Threepart TAE—Applying the method. Case example: My teaching style
17 Monika Catarina Lindner, Always at the edge—TAE/Focusing and second language acquisition
18 Jenny Newman, Creation and creativity: Thinking at the edge and writer’s block
19 Yael Teff-Seker, Using Focusing and TAE for science: A personal account
Section 6: Focusing, ethics and decision-making
20 Anna Magee, Focusing on ethics in research… and beyond. The body as a means of negotiating cultural borders and finding common ground
21 Friedgard E. Blob, Saying ‘no’ in presence: Setting limits through body sense
Section 7: Focusing and the Person-Centred Approach
22 Judy Moore, Introduction: Eugene Gendlin’s contribution to Client-Centred Therapy
23 Tomonori Motoyama, Focusing and Congruence
24 Mick Cooper, Interview
25 Brian Thorne, Interview
Gendlin’s spoken words, recorded by Nada Lou
Fragments from video clips: Transcription of extracts from video clips
Focusing and other methods
Dreams open doors to Focusing
What matters most is to like the dream
Felt sense and space
Best laboratory
Because it is you
Who is thinking?
Coming back into conceptual structure with thinking
Words and phrases
Something precious to say
Index
About the Editors
Notes on Contributors
Acknowledgements
Notes on style and conventions
Foreword, by Mia Leijssen, Professor Emeritus, University of Leuven
Prologue
Preface (with ‘A general outline of volume ΙΙ’)
Introduction: New Focusing. Random thoughts about ‘nakedness’, nonsensical and appropriations, by Nikolaos Kypriotakis
Section 1: Focusing, spirituality and dreams
1 Mia Leijssen, Living forward: The challenge of carrying forward Gendlin’s legacy
2 Peter A. Campbell, Exploring the body’s role within BioSpiritual development. Unfolding an elusive, yet bodily-felt interiority within serious seekers (With contributions from John Keane and David Young)
3 Greg Walkerden, Focusing, vastness and union: Elaborating the Focusing practice tradition and the Philosophy of the Implicit to describe an additional kind of space
4 Fiona Parr, Focusing and practical spirituality—A personal approach: How Focusing contributes to the ‘death of the ego’
5 Leslie Ellis, Gendlin’s unique contribution to dreamwork: Embodying helpful and contrary elements to bring in the new
Section 2: ‘Senses’ of Focusing in individual lives and in therapeutic practice
6 Salvador Moreno-López, Everyday life is enriched by the Philosophy of the Implicit and Focusing
7 Zoe Voulgaraki, Meeting with the Other
8 Svetlana Kutukova, Focusing possibilities in the psychotherapeutic process: Two case studies
9 Isabel Gascón, The mother-daughter relationship: Focusing contributions
Section 3: ‘Senses’ of Focusing in the Arts
10 Michael Seibel, Bodily awareness as a necessary condition for creative work in the aesthetic production process in acting
11 Stephanie Aspin, Writing at the edge
12 Jen White, ‘It lulls me into a false sense of security, but I go there willingly’; music resonates with stopped process: An IPA study into musical experiencing unravelled through music and Focusing
13 Judy Moore, Poets, mystics, Focusers and the physicality of spiritual opening
Section 4: ‘Senses’ of Focusing in science and neuroscience
14 Rob Parker, Re-visioning science: A process model of the double slit experiment
15 Peter Afford, The felt sense, the body & the brain
Section 5: TAE: Theory and living applications
16a Satoko Tokumaru, Three-part TAE and the website ‘TAE Reflection’
16b Satoko Tokumaru (with Nikolaos Kypriotakis and Judy Moore), Threepart TAE—Applying the method. Case example: My teaching style
17 Monika Catarina Lindner, Always at the edge—TAE/Focusing and second language acquisition
18 Jenny Newman, Creation and creativity: Thinking at the edge and writer’s block
19 Yael Teff-Seker, Using Focusing and TAE for science: A personal account
Section 6: Focusing, ethics and decision-making
20 Anna Magee, Focusing on ethics in research… and beyond. The body as a means of negotiating cultural borders and finding common ground
21 Friedgard E. Blob, Saying ‘no’ in presence: Setting limits through body sense
Section 7: Focusing and the Person-Centred Approach
22 Judy Moore, Introduction: Eugene Gendlin’s contribution to Client-Centred Therapy
23 Tomonori Motoyama, Focusing and Congruence
24 Mick Cooper, Interview
25 Brian Thorne, Interview
Gendlin’s spoken words, recorded by Nada Lou
Fragments from video clips: Transcription of extracts from video clips
Focusing and other methods
Dreams open doors to Focusing
What matters most is to like the dream
Felt sense and space
Best laboratory
Because it is you
Who is thinking?
Coming back into conceptual structure with thinking
Words and phrases
Something precious to say
Index
This is a review of Senses of Focusing written by Richard House for the very last edition of Self and Society, the Journal of the Association of Humanistic Psychology in Britain.
JUDY MOORE & NIKOLAOS KYPRIOTAKIS (eds), Senses of Focusing, Volume I & Volume II, Eurasia Books, Athens, 2021,
1130 pp, ASIN: B09L4SLXTP, price 68.50 euros.
A new two-volume collected work about Focusing by authors from all over the world, who approach Focusing – the experiential psychotherapeutic approach within the tradition of Person-Centered Therapy, developed by Eugene T. Gendlin – in diverse ways. There is much original and ground-breaking material throughout the two volumes. The 24 contributors to Volume I include Nikolaos Kypriotakis, Greg Madison, Judy Moore, Campbell Purton and Ernesto Spinelli. The 28 contributors to Volume II include Peter Afford, Mick Cooper, Nikolaos Kypriotakis, Judy Moore and Brian Thorne.
Volume I offers fresh thinking to the meaning of ‘Focusing’ and how Eugene Gendlin’s work grew from and has developed different elements of philosophy and psychotherapy. The meaning of ‘Focusing’ and the ‘Felt sense’ are considered and re-examined; the close relationship between Focusing and Eastern traditions is explored by authors from Japan and China; the relevance of Focusing to the existential challenges that we face are seen not only in terms of personal meaning, but also in relation to current global and political crises; the evolution of new developments in Focusing practice are described; different considerations are brought to bear in relation to working with physical illness and the body; and the volume concludes with a section on ‘Body Mapping’ and ‘Children Focusing’.
Volume II carries exploration of the many senses of ‘focusing’ in new directions, beginning with ‘spirituality’ and the wisdom of ‘dreams’. The value of living and working from inner experiencing ‘in individual lives and in therapeutic practice’ is explored across a variety of cultures, as well as through different manifestations in the Arts, specifically poetry, theatre and music. A section on Focusing in ‘science and neuroscience’ is followed by cross-cultural takes on the theory and practice of ‘Thinking at the Edge’ and a section on the significance of the body’s knowing in ‘ethics and decision-making’. The volume concludes with an examination of Gendlin’s contribution to Client-Centred Therapy and examples of how his work is now regarded by more recent theorists and practitioners of the Person-Centred Approach (PCA).
According to Manu Bazzano, ‘This stimulating and extensive collection of essays from Focusing practitioners and theorists around the world is the most comprehensive compendium to date of a “sister approach” to the PCA and one that is at the forefront of experiential and humanistic investigations and methodologies. It features both new developments as well as direct quotes from his founder, Gene Gendlin…. Seasoned practitioners and trainees alike from most therapeutic orientations will benefit from a close reading of these two remarkable volumes, even when only selecting chapters close to their field of investigation. They will benefit all the more if they do so with an attentive, critical stance’.
Eurasia Books website: https://eurasiabooks.gr/
JUDY MOORE & NIKOLAOS KYPRIOTAKIS (eds), Senses of Focusing, Volume I & Volume II, Eurasia Books, Athens, 2021,
1130 pp, ASIN: B09L4SLXTP, price 68.50 euros.
A new two-volume collected work about Focusing by authors from all over the world, who approach Focusing – the experiential psychotherapeutic approach within the tradition of Person-Centered Therapy, developed by Eugene T. Gendlin – in diverse ways. There is much original and ground-breaking material throughout the two volumes. The 24 contributors to Volume I include Nikolaos Kypriotakis, Greg Madison, Judy Moore, Campbell Purton and Ernesto Spinelli. The 28 contributors to Volume II include Peter Afford, Mick Cooper, Nikolaos Kypriotakis, Judy Moore and Brian Thorne.
Volume I offers fresh thinking to the meaning of ‘Focusing’ and how Eugene Gendlin’s work grew from and has developed different elements of philosophy and psychotherapy. The meaning of ‘Focusing’ and the ‘Felt sense’ are considered and re-examined; the close relationship between Focusing and Eastern traditions is explored by authors from Japan and China; the relevance of Focusing to the existential challenges that we face are seen not only in terms of personal meaning, but also in relation to current global and political crises; the evolution of new developments in Focusing practice are described; different considerations are brought to bear in relation to working with physical illness and the body; and the volume concludes with a section on ‘Body Mapping’ and ‘Children Focusing’.
Volume II carries exploration of the many senses of ‘focusing’ in new directions, beginning with ‘spirituality’ and the wisdom of ‘dreams’. The value of living and working from inner experiencing ‘in individual lives and in therapeutic practice’ is explored across a variety of cultures, as well as through different manifestations in the Arts, specifically poetry, theatre and music. A section on Focusing in ‘science and neuroscience’ is followed by cross-cultural takes on the theory and practice of ‘Thinking at the Edge’ and a section on the significance of the body’s knowing in ‘ethics and decision-making’. The volume concludes with an examination of Gendlin’s contribution to Client-Centred Therapy and examples of how his work is now regarded by more recent theorists and practitioners of the Person-Centred Approach (PCA).
According to Manu Bazzano, ‘This stimulating and extensive collection of essays from Focusing practitioners and theorists around the world is the most comprehensive compendium to date of a “sister approach” to the PCA and one that is at the forefront of experiential and humanistic investigations and methodologies. It features both new developments as well as direct quotes from his founder, Gene Gendlin…. Seasoned practitioners and trainees alike from most therapeutic orientations will benefit from a close reading of these two remarkable volumes, even when only selecting chapters close to their field of investigation. They will benefit all the more if they do so with an attentive, critical stance’.
Eurasia Books website: https://eurasiabooks.gr/
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Eurasia Publications also includes four imprints and several magazines. Stigmos focuses on literature. Kianavgi publishes books about animal rights and veganism. Plethora Editions publishes testimonies, oral history and literature. Digma publishes plays. Epoche magazine is edited by Hellenic Society of Daseinanalysis, Hellenic Focusing Centre, and Hellenic Society for Existential Psychology “Gignesthai”. Xenophon journal focuses on financial education. Filmicon: Journal of Greek Film Studies is a bilingual (English and Greek), peer-reviewed, open-access, online journal edited primarily by independent scholars.
Videos - SoF
Short presentation - Nikolaos Kypriotakis
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Short presentation - Judy Moore
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Interview - Campbell Purton
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Interview - Michael Seibel
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Interview - Akira ikemi
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Short presentation - Sara Bradly
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Short presentation - Jenny White
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See also
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.
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/ |