Research Catalog

Title

The complete guide to experiential psychotherapy / Alvin R. Mahrer.

Author

Mahrer, Alvin R.

Publication

New York : J. Wiley, 1996.

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Description

xv, 412 pages : illustrations; 26 cm

Summary

• At last, one resource offers a complete guide to the experiential philosophy, theory, and model of human beings. The Complete Guide to Experiential Psychotherapy is the culmination of Dr. Alvin Mahrer's four decades of pioneering work to sculpt out the conceptual foundations of an experiential theory and model of psychology, and to create an experiential psychotherapy that is practitioner-friendly and allows creative growth and change.
• Covering everything from the goals, aims, objectives, and directions of therapy, to the way the therapist and client interact with one another, to how to listen and what to listen for in each session - this trailblazing volume will change the way you think about, and practice, psychotherapy.
• Innovative in its approach and style, this timely book offers a thorough overview of an experiential psychotherapy which enables the client to become a qualitatively new person, free of bad feelings.
• This experiential approach represents a dramatic alternative to other philosophies of science, models of personality, and modes of therapy. In this groundbreaking volume, Dr. Mahrer challenges the most cherished truths, basic foundations, and accepted pillars in the field, and lays out a radical new direction for the field.
• Unique in its detailed coverage, this comprehensive manual gives the clinicians step-by-step guidelines to the working practice of experiential psychotherapy. Therapists will learn to apply Dr. Mahrer's innovative four-step process of experiential therapy to facilitate a powerful systematic transformation.
• Using vivid clinical examples, this timely manual shows practitioners how to maximize the effectiveness of each session, while respecting the client's pace and maintaining sensitivity to his or her readiness and willingness to change.

Subject

• Experiential psychotherapy
• Psychotherapy

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Ch. 1. How to Take a Friendly Perspective: Philosophy of Science and the Field of Psychotherapy -- Ch. 2. A Thumbnail Sketch of the Experiential Model of Human Beings -- Ch. 3. In-Session Goals, Objectives, and Directions of Change -- Ch. 4. For What Patients Is Experiential Psychotherapy Useful, Appropriate, and Appealing? -- Ch. 5. For What Kinds of Therapists Is Experiential Psychotherapy Suitable, and What Determines That the Session Will Be Effective? -- Ch. 6. Dealing with the Practicalities of Experiential Psychotherapy -- Ch. 7. Step 1. Being in the Moment of Strong Feeling and Accessing the Inner Experiencing -- Ch. 8. Step 2. Integrative Good Relationship with Inner Experiencing -- Ch. 9. Step 3. Being the Inner Experiencing in Earlier Scenes -- Ch. 10. Step 4. Being and Behaving as the Inner Experiencing in the Present.

ISBN

0471124389

LCCN

95007302

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries