FOCUSING
Focusing Oriented Psychotherapy by Eugene Gendlin, PhD
The book is a classic on the importance of the client therapist relationship and ways in which the therapist’s responses can invite and enable a client’s capacity for change with direct experiencing.
Treating Trauma and Addiction with the Felt Sense Polyvagal Method: A Bottom-Up Approach
Jan Winhall’s book presents the felt sense polyvagal model (FSPM), a bottom-up approach, different than the medicalized top-down approach, that considers addiction as an adaptive attempt to regulate emotional states and trauma.
Focusing in Clinical Practice by Ann Weiser Cornell
Ann Weiser Cornell, who has been teaching Focusing to clinicians for more than 30 years, shows how to help clients get felt senses and nurture them when they appear, how to work with clients who have difficulty feeling in the body, how to facilitate a “felt shift,” how to support clients who experience dysregulating emotional states, and much more.
Focusing Oriented Therapy
Author Neil Friedman demonstrates that the therapist-client relationship is crucial to therapeutic success. He shows how through focusing and listening, clients can become more aware of their own experiencing process. Affective-based therapy has better results than intellectual-based therapy. It helps clients get out of their minds and into their bodies, the place where feelings and felt sense live.
Great discussion with Brandt Stickley on the intersection between Chinese Medicine and Psychiatric medicine- includes references to Process Philosophy, emotion as gesture, and a non-pathologizing approach to mental health.
Integrating Focusing into a Holistic Medical Practice by Dawn Flynn; The Folio 2016
Treating the Heart of Addiction in Women by Dawn Flynn; The International Body Psychotherapy Journal 2022
Incorporating Focusing into the Naturopathic Medicine Encounter for Healing the Effects of Trauma by Dawn Flynn; 2023
Using Relational Wholebody Focusing Oriented Therapy to Heal Complex Trauma by Karen Whalen, PhD et al.