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Introduction.

Cain, David J.; Keenan, Kevin; Rubin, Shawn

Pages: 3 –8

There are a lot of good reasons to read this book. If you are a graduate student learning therapy, a professor teaching therapy, a psychotherapy researcher, or a therapist who wants to incorporate humanistic concepts, relational emphases, and response styles into your current approach, this book...

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Psychological foundations for humanistic psychotherapeutic practice.

Cooper, Mick; Joseph, Stephen

Pages: 11 –46

A humanistic psychotherapy that is not grounded in psychological evidence and research can be likened to a tree without roots. It is in danger both of withering from a lack of nourishment and of being knocked down as a result of an insufficiently robust foundation. The aim of this chapter,...

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Effective humanistic psychotherapy processes and their outcomes.

Lambert, Michael J.; Fidalgo, Louise G.; Greaves, Madeline R.

Pages: 49 –79

In this chapter, we summarize research on psychotherapies that are part of the humanistic tradition (see Cain & Seeman, 2002). Clinicians and scholars from this tradition tend to view people as inherently prosocial, believing that personal growth can come from processing one’s emotions and the...

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Qualitative research and humanistic psychotherapy.

Levitt, Heidi M.

Pages: 81 –113

This chapter has outlined the major traditions of qualitative psychotherapy research used by humanistic psychologists, focusing on the interconnection between humanistic and qualitative research philosophies. In addition, I have presented findings from reviews of the literature base that have...

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The role of empathy in psychotherapy: Theory, research, and practice.

Watson, Jeanne C.

Pages: 115 –145

Research has consistently demonstrated that therapist empathy is one of the most potent predictors of client progress in psychotherapy across every therapeutic modality (Constantino et al., 2008; Elliott, Bohart, Watson, & Greenberg, 2011; Norcross & Lambert, 2011a, 2011b; Norcross & Wampold,...

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Emotion in psychotherapy: An experiential–humanistic perspective.

Pascual-Leone, Antonio; Paivio, Sandra; Harrington, Shawn

Pages: 147 –181

The idea that accessing and exploring painful emotions and bad feelings in a therapeutic relationship may result in one feeling better in the long term is now a widely held belief among several schools of psychotherapy, but it has always been a central position among humanistic and experiential...

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Person-centered therapy: Past, present, and future orientations.

Murphy, David; Joseph, Stephen

Pages: 185 –218

Since its development by Carl Rogers in the 1940s, client-centered therapy has been a significant force in the world of humanistic psychotherapy. Today the approach, now termed person-centered therapy (P-CT), continues to evolve to take account of contemporary developments. The aims of this...

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Contemporary Gestalt therapy.

Brownell, Philip

Pages: 219 –250

Gordon Wheeler (Lobb & Wheeler, 2013) described the focus of Gestalt therapy as understanding the processes and structures by which human beings organize and interpret their perceived worlds, that is, a process of discovery. It is a hermeneutic and phenomenological perspective achieved in the...

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Focusing-oriented–experiential psychotherapy: From research to practice.

Krycka, Kevin C.; Ikemi, Akira

Pages: 251 –282

With more than 50 years of studies demonstrating the usefulness of focusing-oriented–experiential therapy (FOT), new research findings have provided further evidence of its efficacy in the treatment of various psychological disorders and issues. Traditional outcome research studies are being...

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Existential psychotherapies.

Craig, Meghan; Vos, Joël; Cooper, Mick; Correia, Edgar A.

Pages: 283 –317

Questions about the nature of human existence have puzzled the human mind for millennia, for instance, “What is the meaning of my life?” “How do I cope with my mortality?” (e.g., Greenberg, Koole, & Pyszczynski, 2004; Tillich, 1952). For some people, these concerns may evoke such anxiety,...

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