American Journal of Psychotherapy

Publication date: 01 July 2007

Experiential psychotherapy is generally accepted as one of the major families of psychotherapy. One of the main purposes of this introduction to the theme issue is to invite leading proponents and exponents to provide their own answers to the question of ...

Publication date: 01 July 2007

Process-Experiential/Emotion-Focused Therapy (PE-EFT; Elliott et al, 2004; Greenberg et al., 1993) is an empirically-supported, neo-humanistic approach that integrates and updates person-centered, Gestalt, and existential therapies. In this article, we ...

Publication date: 01 July 2007

The therapeutic relationship is described as a curative factor in its own right as well as facilitative for other tasks. Experiential tasks that facilitate working on the intrapsychic, interpersonal, and existential domains are distinguished. Focusing is ...

Publication date: 01 July 2007

Experiential Psychotherapy originated in Gendlin’s Philosopy of the Implicit. Some of its main concepts are bodily felt sense, fresh emergence of words from the felt sense, and carrying forward the implicit with small steps of change. Presented in this ...

Publication date: 01 July 2007

Contact Reflections are the primary method of Pre-Therapy. There are five formalized techniques: situational, facial, word-for-word, body, and reiterative. Together they form a web of psychological contact enabling the development of therapeutic ...

Publication date: 01 July 2007

Each experiential session is to achieve two goals. One is to enable the person to undergo a qualitative shift into being the transformed new person that the person can become. A second goal is for the qualitatively new person to be essentially free of the ...

Publication date: 01 July 2007

In this paper, an experiential process-directive approach is presented in which the therapist is guided by the Rogerian core attitudes for offering a therapeutic relationship and for intervening in a process-enhancing way. I elaborate on how interventions ...

Publication date: 01 July 2007

Mahrer’s Experiential Psychotherapy provides a valuable alternative to conventional sex therapy with individuals and couples. Experiential Psychotherapy uses the sexual complaint as it would any situation or scene described at the outset of therapy, as an ...