A meditation on the nature of self‐healing and personality change in psychotherapy based on Gendlin's theory of experiencing

References

• Barsalou , L. W. and Prinz , J. J. 1997 . “ Mundane creativity in perceptual symbol systems ” . In Creative thought: An investigation of conceptual structures and processes , Edited by: Ward , T. B. , Smith , S. M. and Vaid , J. 267 – 308 . Washington DC : American Psychological Association .
   Google Scholar
• Bellezia , F. S. 1984 . Reliability of retrieval from semantic memory. Noun meanings . Bulletin of the Psychonomic Society. , 22 : 377 – 380 .
   Google Scholar
• Bohart , A. 1991 . Empathy in client‐centered therapy: A contrast with psychoanalysis and Self psychology . Journal of Humanistic Psychology , 31 : 34 – 48 .
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Bohart , A. and Tallman , K. 1999 . How clients make therapy work: The process of active self‐healing. , Washington, DC : American Psychological Association .
   Google Scholar
• Bohart , A. , Greenberg , L. S. , Driscoll , R. and Wessler , R. L. Working with the internal critic: A therapeutic commonality . Symposium presented at the 7th Annual Conference of the Society for the Exploration of Psychotherapy Integration . London. July .
   Google Scholar
• Caspar , F. 1998 . “ A connectionist view of psychotherapy ” . In Neural networks and psychopathology , Edited by: Stein , D. J. and Ludik , J. 88 – 131 . Cambridge, , UK : Cambridge University Press .
   Google Scholar
• Caspi , A. , Bem , D. J. and Elder , G. H. Jr. 1989 . Continuities and consequences of interactional styles across the life course . Journal of Personality , 57 : 375 – 406 .
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Gendlin , E. T. 1962 . Experiencing and the creation of meaning. , New York : Free Press .
   Google Scholar
• Gendlin , E. T. 1964 . “ A theory of personality change. ” . In Personality change. , Edited by: Worchel , P. and Byrne , D. New York : Wiley .
   Google Scholar
• Gendlin , E. T. 1968 . “ The experiential response ” . In Use of interpretation in treatment , Edited by: Hammer , E. 208 – 227 . New York : Grune & Stratton .
   Google Scholar
• Gendlin , E. T. 1981 . Focusing. , New York : Bantam .
   Google Scholar
• Gendlin , E. T. 1990 . “ The small steps of the therapy process: How they come and how to help them come ” . In Client‐ centered and experiential psychotherapy in the nineties , Edited by: Lietaer , G. , Rombauts , J. and Van Balen , R. 205 – 224 . Leuven, , Belgium : Leuven University Press .
   Google Scholar
• Gendlin , E. T. 1996 . Focusing‐oriented psychotherapy. , New York : Guilford .
   Google Scholar
• Gendlin , E. T. 1997 . “ How philosophy cannot appeal to experience, and how it can ” . In Language beyond postmodernism: Saying and thinking in Gendlin's philosophy , Edited by: Levin , D. M. 3 – 41 . Evanston, Illinois : Northwestern University Press .
   Google Scholar
• Gilligan , C. , Brown , L. M. and Rogers , A. 1990 . “ Psyche embedded: A place for body, relationships, and culture in personality theory ” . In Studying persons and lives. , Edited by: Rabin , A. I. , Zucker , R. , Emmons , R. and Frank , S. New York : Springer .
   Google Scholar
• Godel , K. 1962 . On formally undecidable propositions. , 10 New York : Basic Books .
   Google Scholar
• Greenberg , L. S. and Paivio , S. 1997 . Working with emotions in psychotherapy. , New York : Guilford .
   Google Scholar
• Greenberg , L. S. , Rice , L. N. and Elliott , R. 1993 . Facilitating emotional change: The moment‐by‐moment process. , New York : Guilford .
   Google Scholar
• Hofstader , D. R. 1979 . Godel, Escher, Bach: An eternal golden braid. , New York : Vintage .
   Google Scholar
• Jenkins , A. H. Enhancing the patient s dialectical abilities in psychotherapy . Paper presented at a symposium, How Clients Create Change In Psychotherapy: Implications For Understanding Change at the Convention of the American Psychological Association . Toronto. August .
   Google Scholar
• Johnson , M. 1987 . The body in the mind. , Chicago : University of Chicago Press .
   Google Scholar
• Kennedy‐Moore , E. and Watson , J. C. 1999 . Expressing emotion. , New York : Guilford .
   Google Scholar
• Kirsch , I. and Lynn , S. J. 1999 . Automaticity in clinical psychology. . American Psychologist , 54 : 504 – 515 .
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Kleinman , A. 1988 . The illness narratives. , New York : Basic Books .
   Google Scholar
• Kuhn , T. S. 1970 . The structure of scientific revolutions. , (2nd ed.) , Chicago : University of Chicago Press .
   Google Scholar
• Lakoff , G. 1987 . Women, fire, and dangerous things: What categories reveal about the mind. , Chicago : University of Chicago Press .
   Google Scholar
• Leijssen , M. 1998 . “ Focusing microprocesses ” . In Handbook of experiential psychotherapy , Edited by: Greenberg , L. S. , Watson , J. C. and Lietaer , G. 121 – 154 . 12 New York : Guilford .
   Google Scholar
• Levin , D. M. , ed. 1997 . Language beyond postmodernism: Saying and thinking in Gendlin's philosophy. , Evanston, Illinois : Northwestern University Press .
   Google Scholar
• Linehan , M. 1993 . Cognitive‐behavior therapy for borderline personality disorder , New York : Guilford .
   Google Scholar
• Mahoney , M. J. 1991 . Human change processes. , New York : Basic Books .
   Google Scholar
• Mahrer , A. R. 1996 . The complete guide to experiential psychotherapy. , New York : Wiley .
   Google Scholar
• Mathieu‐Coughlan , P. and Klein , M. H. 1984 . “ Experiential psychotherapy: Key events in client‐centered interaction ” . In Patterns of change , Edited by: Rice , L. N. and Greenberg , L. S. 194 – 212 . New York : Guilford .
   Google Scholar
• McCrae , R. R. and Costa , P. T. Jr. 1990 . Personality in adulthood: Emerging lives, enduring dispositions. , New York : Guilford .
   Google Scholar
• Rice , L. N. and Kerr , G. P. 1986 . “ Measures of client and therapist vocal quality ” . In The psychotherapeutic process: A research handbook , Edited by: Greenberg , L. S. and Pinsof , W. M. 73 – 106 . New York : Guilford .
   Google Scholar
• Rogers , C. R. 1954 . “ The case of Mr. Bebb: The analysis of a failure case ” . In Psychotherapy and personality change , Edited by: Rogers , C. R. and Dymond , R. F. 349 – 409 . Chicago : University of Chicago Press .
   Google Scholar
• Rogers , C. R. 1961 . On becoming a person. , Boston : Houghton‐Mifflin .
   Google Scholar
• Rychlak , J. F. 1994 . Logical learning theory. , Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press .
   Google Scholar
• Shapiro , F. 1995 . Eye movement desensitization and reprocessing. , New York : Guilford .
   Google Scholar
• Shapiro , F. and Forrest , M. S. 1997 . EMDR. , New York : Basic Books .
   Google Scholar
• Todd , J. and Bohart , A. 1998 . Foundations of clinical and counseling psychology , (3rd ed.) , New York : Allyn & Bacon .
   Google Scholar
• Watson , J. C. and Greenberg , L. S. 1996 . “ Emotion and cognition in experiential therapy: A dialectical‐constructivist perspective ” . In Constructing realities: Meaning‐making perspectives for psychotherapists , Edited by: Rosen , H. and Kuehlwein , K. T. 253 – 274 . San Francisco : Jossey‐Bass .
   Google Scholar
• Ward , T. B. , Finke , R.A. and Smith , S. M. 1995 . Creativity and the mind , New York : Plenum .
   Google Scholar
• Watzlawick , P. , Weakland , J. H. and Fisch , R. 1974 . Change: Principles of problem formation and problem resolution. , New York : Norton .
   Google Scholar
• Wegner , D. M. and Bargh , J. A. 1998 . “ Control and automaticity in social life ” . In Handbook of social psychology , 4th ed. , Edited by: Gilbert , D. , Fiske , S. T. and Lindzey , G. Vol. 1 , 446 – 496 . New York : McGraw‐Hill .
   Google Scholar
• Wile , D. 1981 . Couples therapy. , New York : Wiley .
   Google Scholar
• Wittgenstein , L. 1974 . Philosophical investigations. , Oxford : Blackwell .
   Google Scholar