Integrating the work of leading client-centered, gestalt, interpersonal, focusing, and process-oriented therapists, Handbook of Experiential Psychotherapy covers both conceptual foundations and current treatment applications. Contributors present well-articulated approaches to treating depression, PTSD, anxiety, and other problems, emphasizing the need to work with the client's own moment-by-moment experience of disturbing states and processes. The volume delineates a variety of experiential methods--from working with clients to symbolize bodily felt sense, evoke memories, and express intense feelings, to helping them reflect on their experience, maintain gains from session to session, and create new meanings for themselves. The role of the therapist's relational stance in promoting particular emotional processes is also examined, and newly developed models of experiential diagnosis and case formulation are described. Table of Contents I. History and Theory 1. The Experiential Paradigm Unfolding: Relationship and Experiencing, Watson, Greenberg, and Lietaer 2. The Theory of Experience-Centered Therapies, Greenberg and Van Balen II. Foundational Processes 3. Empathy: A Postmodern Way of Being?, Watson, Goldman, and Vanaerschot 4. Dialogic Gestalt Therapy, Yontef 5. Existential Processes, Schneider 6. Focusing Microprocesses, Leijssen 7. Interpersonal Processes, van Kessel and Lietaer 8. The Person as Active Agent in Experiential Therapy, Bohart and Tallman 9. How Can Impressive In-Session Changes Become Impressive Postsession Changes?, Mahrer III.Differential Treatment Applications 10. Process-Experiential Therapy of Depression, Greenberg, Watson, and Goldman 11. Process-Experiential Therapy for Posttraumatic Stress Difficulties, Elliott, Davis, and Slatik 12. Experiential Psychotherapy of the Anxiety Disorders, Wolfe and Sigl 13. Goal-Oriented Client-Centered Psychotherapy of Psychosomatic Disorders, Sachse 14. Experiential Psychodrama with Sexual Trauma, Hudgins 15. The Treatment of Borderline Personality Disorder, Eckert and Biermann-Ratjen 16. A Client-Centered Approach to Therapeutic Work with Dissociated and Fragile Process, Warner 17. Pretherapy and Presymbolic Experiencing, Prouty 18. Psychopathology According to the Differential Incongruence Model, Speirer 19. Diagnosing in the Here and Now: A Gestalt Therapy Approach, Melnick and Nevis IV. Conclusion 20. Experiential Therapy: Identity and Challenges, Greenberg, Lietaer, and Watson "A major shift has occurred in experiential therapy. This seminal text extends the work of Rogers and Perls and provides systematic interventions that target specific client problems. It provides the practicing therapist with a map, a rich theoretical base that emphasizes the client's potential for growth. It also offers specific guidelines for effective practice and clinical examples of tried and empirically tested interventions. This is a classic that will guide therapists for years to come." -Susan M. Johnson, EdD, Professor of Psychology & Psychiatry, University of Ottawa, Canada from the publisher's website |