Psychotherapy and Process : The Fundamentals of an Existential-Humanistic Approach

by Bugental, James F. T.

• ISBN13: 9780075548270
• ISBN10: 0075548275
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1978-01-01
• Publisher: McGraw-Hill College

Table of Contents

The Prospect of a Journey	1	(19)
Deficiency Levels of Therapeutic Goals	2	(4)
Being Levels of Therapeutic Growth Goals	6	(8)
Matching Therapy to Client Needs	14	(1)
Other Contrasts Among Therapies	15	(5)
The Traveler Makes Ready for the Journey	20	(12)
What the Client Brings to the Enterprise	21	(5)
Coming for Help	26	(6)
The Guide Makes Preparations as Well	32	(14)
Desirable Qualities in the Therapist	33	(2)
Dedication to the Healing/Growth Process	35	(11)
The Guide Must Know and the Traveler Must Trust the Vessel	46	(16)
The Fundamental Importance of Concern	47	(4)
Inward Searching: The Key to Life Concerns	51	(11)
The Travelers From a Bond and Begin Their Journey	62	(20)
Conceptualizing the Ideal Therapeutic Partnership	63	(3)
An Existential-humanistic Ideal for the Client-therapist Relationship	66	(5)
Phases in the Psychotherapeutic Process	71	(11)
The Traveler Discovers the Rewards and Hazards of the Journey	82	(20)
Focusing Intentionality in Inward Searching	83	(9)
Typical Phases in Intensive Psychotherapy	92	(8)
A Client's Account of Working in Therapy	100	(2)
Each Journey Is New for the Guide as Well as the Traveler	102	(17)
The Working Therapeutic Alliance	103	(5)
What the Therapist Does	108	(9)
A Client's Account of the Caring from the Therapist	117	(2)
Though the Travelers Stop, the Journey Stretches Ahead	119	(26)
The Primacy of the Subjective	120	(5)
Changes in Life Experience	125	(6)
Enlarged Sense of Identity	131	(14)
The Journey Over, the Guide Reflects	145	(6)
My Personal Experience of Being a Psychotherapist	146	(5)
References	151	(4)
Suggested Readings	155	(4)
Index	159