Focusing: A way to deepen experiencing for more effective psychotherapy

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Jul 27, 10

In the mid 1960s, a philosophy student named Eugene Gendlin started asking some hard questions about the process of psychotherapy: “Why doesn’t therapy succeed more often?… When it does succeed, what is it that those patients and therapists do? What is it that the majority fail to do?”

Over the next 15 years, Gendlin and his colleagues at the University of Chicago conducted a series of studies that concluded something surprising about psychotherapy: the key element to success is not the skill of the therapist, nor their methodology, but the therapy client’s own inner process.

Women and Depression

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Jul 19, 10

For ten years, Gina suffered in silence with an illness that affects one in four women during the course of a lifetime. The illness affected her eating and sleeping habits, her ability to concentrate, her sense of self-worth, her sex drive and her ability to enjoy life. She felt tired all the time, and while she managed to keep up with her work duties, nothing was accomplished without tremendous effort. At times Gina’s illness was so severe, she felt like killing herself.

Dreamwork

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Jul 19, 10

Why do we dream?

Theories abound, but no one is sure. We do know that everybody dreams, even animals, and that if we are deprived of the sleep we need for dreaming, we quickly lose our sanity. So dreaming may be a necessary bodily function, whether we choose to work with our dreams or not. However, if we do delve more deeply into the fascinating world of our dreams, we are often rewarded.

Introductory Focusing Courses Now Available

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Jul 19, 10

Leslie Ellis will once again be offering her popular introductory course in the fundamentals of focusing. There is still room to sign up for the upcoming two-day workshop October 15 and 16, 2010

For more information, go to Learning Focusing.