This working paper
takes the complex concept of awareness and helps individuals and professionals understand the role awareness
plays in psychotherapy and focuses on how to develop awareness in the self. This paper also addresses
specific strategies for awareness training and explores the notion of the awareness continuum. Awareness
is a basic process underlying all psychotherapy.;
One
of the most important things for psychotherapist to understand is how
important basic groundwork is to the psychotherapy process. It is a
crucial process in enabling the client the ability to work effectively
in therapy over time. This Working Paper identifies the processes specific
to groundwork and specifically emphasizes how groundwork creates a platform
for later therapeutic success.
This
Working Paper provides a wonderful opportunity for a therapist to experientially
and didactically explore the processes of developing your own therapeutic
style. When reading this Working Paper, there will be a variety of processes,
intellectually and experientially, that help the individual define their
particular style and understand where they can create opportunities to
work on building and strengthening that unique style.
The
notion of themes is a part of all therapeutic experience and this Working
Paper helps to clarify, identify, and discuss how a theme is developed
in therapy. It also helps the reader understand the qualities of the theme
and what is required in theme development so the client will want to continue
work on the identified theme over time. Theme development is the process
that helps create motivation and self/responsibility in the client.
This
Working Paper begins to introduce the model of character treatment (personality
disorders) developed over the last twenty years by Norman Shub at the
Gestalt Institute of Central Ohio. This particular model of character
is widely used by therapists today and identifies a specific approach
and change process that has been proven clinically successful
This Working Paper introduces the notion of present-centered diagnosis, which is a description of current functioning of
the self in the present. This approach to diagnosis is a non-labeling, phenomenological understanding of how the self and
the constituent parts of the self function together. The neurotic, borderline, characterological, fragmented, and psychotic
self are each described in detail. Further, it explores where the blocks to connecting with the world can occur in each self.
This Working Paper can be useful for practitioners of any theoretical background.
This Working Paper is for clients and therapists who want to understand the process of being in therapy. Originally
written for clients and made available to them by their therapists, this Working Paper helps the client understand the
therapeutic process, their responsibility, the therapists' responsibility, and many other issues relevant to participating
in the therapeutic process. It has been proven to be a very useful tool for all types of clients considering or currently
in psychotherapy.
This Working Paper presents a significant model for the development of high self-esteem that anyone-lay or
professional-can use to identify and work on their self-esteem. It specifically and concretely defines self-esteem,
which is in itself, an important consideration, breaks it into constituent parts, and provides cogent experiences and
opportunities for the reader to work directly on their self-esteem. This particular Working Paper has been used by many
therapists with their clients, as well as therapists who are interested in developing their own self-esteem. It has
proven to be a very significant compliment to the therapeutic process.
This
comprehensive and very detailed Working Paper explores the complexity
of the borderline treatment from a here and now psychotherapeutic approach.
It presents the three phases of treatment, the specific goals of each
phase, and includes a thorough discussion of the methodology and process
of working successfully with the borderline client. The use of awareness,
contact, introject work, and the goal of re-integration of the two warring
introject systems is also discussed in great detail. The model presented
here has been tested out by many practitioners and deemed to be successful
with this very difficult to treat group of people.
This
Working Paper helps teach anyone interested in working with couples more
about how they can use their own creativity in helping couples bring about
change in the couple’s relationship. Any individual who would like to
be more creative in couples work of any type can benefit from this Working
Paper. It outlines specific issues that need to be discussed, explored
(in terms of creativity) and suggests ways that an individual can actually
work on developing their creative process.
This Working Paper was written for any practitioner who would like to develop intellectual honesty,
self-scrutiny, and self-monitoring in their psychotherapeutic practice. Written as a guide to practitioners
interested in doing the highest level work, this Paper has proven to be very helpful in creating a self-supervision
and an intellectual accountability process.
One
of the main tasks of the psychotherapist is to deal with the negative
beliefs of the client about self and the world. In addition, the therapist
must be able to help the client, couple, family, or organization learn
what is special about itself. This Working Paper explores the process
of introject work, exploring how negative introjects are defused and how
positive ones are developed. An important paper for all therapists and
interested professionals.
This Working Paper explores, from the inside out, the process of character change. This is an honest, open
discussion of the internal struggle to deal with a personality disorder. The author talks about the benchmarks and
difficulties of this process. If you are interested in understanding the character change process from the inside out,
this working paper will have great benefit.
All mental health professionals
have some notion of resistance. This Working Paper clearly and deeply defines resistance in psychotherapy and gives the
professional clear, direct, and concrete examples of resistance, how resistance affects the therapy process, and models for
working with them over time. Resistance is a part of all themes of psychotherapy
Are you interested in learning
about how to raise a child's self-esteem? Then this workbook is for you. It is concrete, practical, specific, clear
and valuable for professionals, clients, and all parents. This tried and true approach is a must for all parents!
Explore your ability to communicate,
to share feelings, to support, to commit, to better manage conflict, to learn to explore opportunities in order to support your
partner, to understand each other's differences, to discuss issues together-in the privacy of your own home. Issues you may
have never considered but need to discuss. This workbook provides a foundation, an opportunity to explore, to apply Heart to
Heart principles in a self-guided journey to deepen your relationship.
This
Working Paper is a very interesting and seminal one for all practicing
psychotherapists. This paper redefines the concept of neurosis in actual
phenomenological terms, helping the therapist understand, access, and
conceptualize the neurotic condition and its components. It is a must
for all therapists who are working with neurotic individuals and people
who are suffering with the powerful distortions that are a part of neurosis.
Working
at a boundary is the ability to see limits, being able to know when you
are coming to the edge of a client’s individual growth process in marriages,
in families, and in organizational life. So, being able to identify a
boundary, understand how resistance emerges as you get to the boundary,
and how boundaries work in the psychotherapeutic process is an essential
concept, skill, and part of the therapeutic experience for all psychotherapists.
This publication presents a model of treating characterologic adolescents, which has proven to be very successful
in helping the characterologic adolescent learn how to engage in a much more flexible, successful way in the world.
The model looks at the therapy process over time as well as the differences in treating the defensive and the rigid
characterologic adolescent - the two overarching main classifications of adolescent characterologic issues. By
exploring this Working Paper, the reader will develop a much deeper understanding of the therapy processes and the
stages of treatment as it unfolds, integrating the family work with the work with the individual adolescent. The
Working Paper is a must for those individuals interested in treating or dealing with characterologic adolescents
in their homes or any of the other environments that adolescents with character problems find themselves.
This
Working Paper explores the nature, the process, the structure, and the
use of the experiment in psychotherapy. The Working Paper is designed
to help the practitioner understand how to create boundary-sensitive,
specific opportunities for people to change. Entitled “Experiments,” the
Working Paper looks at the experimentation process developed as part of
the humanistic approach to psychotherapy, outlining the steps to developing
an experiment, the need for buy-in, the role of the therapist/leader/facilitator,
and a discussion of how to integrate the experiment into the changing
self. If you are working in an area where supporting and facilitating
the change in the human experience is part of your work, this paper will
be extremely helpful.
Using
the developmental model of anxiety originated at the Gestalt Institute,
this Working Paper revisits the treatment of anxiety disorders from a
humanistic psychotherapeutic perspective. Postulating the importance of
dealing with the negative beliefs about safety, the role of anxiety, the
importance of diffusing those focal introjects, and the importance of
a therapeutic healing relationship, this Working Paper presents the model
over time for treating anxiety issues. Further, the Working Paper explores
the role of the therapist, the subtleties that the negative introject
manifests in creating the feeling of anxiety and the projections onto
the internal world. This Working Paper helps the practitioner look at
diffusing the introjects so that the anxious person makes a much more
complete and fuller adjustment to day-to-day life.
This
Working Paper is designed to help those dealing with the Narcissistic
Personality Disorder understand what narcissism is, what a co-narcissist
is, and how to deal with narcissism. If you are living with a narcissistic
personality as a mate, a partner, a family member, a relative, or if you
engaged in therapy with a narcissist, this Working Paper was written at
the request of all those who are struggling both to deal with their narcissism
and also to understand how people living with narcissistic personalities
can survive and help support the change process.
This
long-awaited Working Paper is a comprehensive and thorough treatment of
the work with a fragmented self. The Working Paper begins by defining
fragmentation process on a continuum severity and goes into depth about
the stages of treatment of a fragmented self and the nuances of that process.
The Working Paper explores the phases of treatment, the role of the therapist,
the skills that are necessary to develop the connection, the importance
of safety and the connected relationship and how integration is possible
using this model. This Working Paper will be very helpful to the therapist
who is working with Dissociative Disorder clients or people who are interested
in this difficult population.
This Working Paper helps students of psychotherapy and organizational consulting better understand the models and
the complex theoretical material involved in the study of depth psychotherapy. It addresses the process of change:
that is, how change occurs in the human endeavor--individually and in couples, families, and organizations.
This guide will focus on the Parenting
from the Heart philosophy and the skills necessary to make it a reality. It will also encourage you to examine yourself and
to make the changes that will create the opportunity for you and your children to enjoy the best life possible.
The model of Gestalt family therapy
that presented in this Working Paper allows practitioners to build on their own personal style. As in all family therapy,
personal style is important. In this model, however, it is particularly critical that you use yourself as the vehicle for
the therapy. Unlike other models in which the methodology is more important, such as the strategic and structural approaches,
Gestalt family therapy, because it is Gestalt based, relies on the practitioner's personality in the encounter with the family.
This model allows therapists to use their strengths and their weaknesses to develop their own particular style of family therapy.