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This book provides both experienced and novice clinicians with a thorough guide to this increasingly popular form of therapy. This timely resource outlines the theoretical underpinnings of experiential psychotherapy, explores how the experiential model relates to other forms of therapy, and describes, in detail, how to practice this unique form of therapy. Using vivid case examples, it offers therapists a step-by-step guide to helping clients experience, understand, and re-direct their feelings.
The Other Deeper You continues in the revolutionary Quixotic spirit of Dr. Alvin Mahrer's previous works on experiential psychotherapy. For the visionary, the scholar, the academic, the serious reader, picture a whole new inner deeper world containing a whole new you, an other deeper you. This concept itself is revolutionary, but the book goes further by providing a step-by-step guide for coming face-to-face with the other deeper you.
Drawing from the humanistic traditions of Abraham Maslow, Carl Rogers, and Eugene Gendlin, this guide presents a method for tapping emotions as a vehicle for personal growth. Psychologist Alvin Mahrer’s self-guided program is not in opposition to traditional therapy but rather complements it. By combining meditation with experiential therapy, the author takes readers through a process of self-transformation to develop their unique potential. He offers a set of simple, effective techniques to cast off the remnants of past experience and achieve creative growth and change.
Discovery-oriented supervision is a whole new dimension of supervision. It explores deep down inside the other person' s ideas about psychotherapy; to discover their inner, probably unformed, deeper pool of ideas about psychotherapy. This volume will help trainees, teachers and supervisors to become acquainted with the area of supervision.
The field of psychotherapy is filled with theories, from theories of personality to those of psychopathology, psychodynamic theories to cognitive and humanistic theories. Based on the philosophy of science, this volume introduces different models as alternatives to theories of psychotherapy. While models are common in other fields, they are essentially unknown in psychotherapeutic practice and research. This revolutionary volume introduces a new era, and a change in thinking by comparing different models with theories, and by showing their respective strengths and weaknesses, the ways in which models are superior to theories, by highlighting the preferential features of models over theories,...
Al Mahrer shares his passion for moving psychotherapy forward.
Coming at a time of renewed interest in the developmental changes of the life cycle, Psychotherapy and the Widowed Patient is a rich resource that examines the impact of a spouse's death on an individual's mental health. Psychiatrists and psychoanalysts address a wide range of issues concerning loss, grief, and bereavement, and provide practical and creative approaches for both widowed persons and the helping professionals charged with treating their grief. Chapters in this compassionate volume discuss the characteristics of individuals who are more likely to seek professional help in coping with grief, widowhood as a time of growth and development, the value of openness instead of denial in...
This working guide to how and why to go about the integration of psychotherapies is useful for psychotherapists of all approaches, professions, and degress of experience, most of whom are implicitly or explicitly engaged in some kind of integration. Each of the first six chapters describes different ways of integrating psychotherapies, discusses whether it is workable or unworkable, and outlines its consequences for the field as a whole.