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Embodiment, focusing and the full self: bibliography

Gendlin:

Focusing Institute website: http://www.focusing.org

Gendlin Eugene 1981 Focusing. New York: Bantam (very cheap on Amazon Used)

Gendlin Eugene 2004 "Introduction to Thinking At the Edge", The Folio, Vol. 19 No. 1 http://www.focusing.org/tae-intro.html

Gendlin Eugene 1996 Focusing Partnerships Focusing Publications, Focusing Institute

Gendlin Eugene 1992 "The primacy of the body, not the primacy of perception: How the body knows the situation and philosophy", excerpt from: Man and World 25 (3-4) 341-353. http://www.focusing.org/primacy.html

Gendlin Eugene 1991 "Thinking beyond patterns : body, language and situations," in B. den Ouden & M. Moen (eds), The presence of feeling in thought, Chapter A-1, section 6 Peter Lang

Gendlin Eugene 1962 Introduction to Experiencing and the creation of meaning: a philosophical and psychological approach to the subjective Free Press of Glencoe

 

Others whose work is based on or compatible with Gendlin:

>> Writing and focusing

Elbow Peter and Belanoff P 1989 A Community of Writers Random House

Perl Sondra 2004 Felt sense: writing with the body Boynton/Cook

Perl Sondra 1994 "A writer's ways of knowing: guidelines for composing" in Presence of mind: Writing and the domain beyond the cognitive, A Brand and R Graves eds, 77-87 Boynton/Cook

Perl Sondra 1988 "Understanding Composing" in Writer's Mind: Writing as Mode of Thinking National Council of Teachers of English. Reprinted in: Purposes and Ideas: Readings for University Writing D. Joliffe. Ed Kendall-Hunt

>> Therapy

Peter Levine, Ann Frederick 1997 Waking the Tiger : Healing Trauma : The Innate Capacity to Transform Overwhelming Experiences

Welwood John 2002 Toward a Psychology of Awakening Shambhala

>> Somatics

Henderson Julie 1999 The Lover Within Station Hill-Barrytown

>> Critical thinking and theory construction

Epp Ellie Wild research workshop notes: http://web.goddard.edu/embodiment/workshops/wildresearch.html

>> Music

Clynes M 1978 Sentics: the touch of emotions Anchor

>> Art

Milner Marion 1990 On not being able to paint International Universities Press

>> Architecture

Alexander Christopher 1977 A pattern language: towns, buildings, construction

>> Neuroscience

Damasio A 1994 Descartes' error Grosset/Putnam

Damasio A 1999 The feeling of what happens: body and emotion in the making of consciousness Harcourt Brace

Neuroscientist's introductions to the cognitive significance of emotion.

>> Religon ­ Buddhism

Tulku Tarthang 1977 Time, Space, and Knowledge: A New Vision of Reality Dharma Publishing

Tantric Buddhist philosophy written in language exemplary in its cleanness and contemporaneity.

>> Relation to embodiment, basic embodiment studies material

Embodiment studies semester magazine http://web.goddard.edu/faculty/eppe/magazines/mag2-05/2-2005magazine.html

Embodiment web worksite featuring faculty and student comments, bibliographies, quotations, links: http://web.goddard.edu/embodiment/index.html

>> Student writing on embodiment and focusing:

Anna Hawkins 2004 "An epistemology, or methodology, of the unconscious" in the IMA embodiment studies semester magazine: http://web.goddard.edu/faculty/eppe/magazines/mag2-04/2-2004magazine.html

Layla Holguin-Messner 2005 Wholeness, Voice, Body and Memory (process paper accompanying her graduating project ­ will be in the Goddard library)

>> Works on somatic psychology/therapy that I haven't read and so cannot personally vouch for (let me know whether they're good):

Janet Adler Offering from the Conscious Body: The Discipline of Authentic Movement

Susan Aposhyan Natural Intelligence: Body-Mind Integration and Human Development

Susan Aposhyan Body-Mind Psychotherapy: Principles, Techniques, and Practical Applications

Bonnie Bainbridge Cohen 1994 Sensing, Feeling, and Action: The Experiential Anatomy of Body-Mind Centering

Caldwell Christine, Ed. 1997 Getting in Touch: The Guide to New Body-Centered Therapies Wheaton: Quest Books

Founded the Somatic Psychology Department at Naropa Institute in Boulder in 1984.

John P. Conger 1994 The Body in Recovery: Somatic Psychotherapy and the Self

Don Hanlon Johnson (Editor) 1995 Bone, Breath, & Gesture: Practices of Embodiment

Don Hanlon Johnson (Editor), et al 1998 The Body in Psychotherapy: Inquiries in Somatic Psychology (Body in Psychotherapy, Vol 3)

Don Hanlon Johnson Body: Recovering Our Sensual Wisdom

Judith Herman 1997 Trauma and Recovery: The Aftermath of Violence--from Domestic Abuse to Political Terror

Annie G. Rogers A Shining Affliction : A Story of Harm and Healing in Psychotherapy

Babette Rothschild The Body Remembers: The Psychophysiology of Trauma and Trauma Treatment


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