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Focusing

Focusing

by Eugene T. Gendlin

2002ChangementEmotionsPersonality changePersonnalitéPsychotherapy
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At the University of Chicago and elsewhere in the past fifteen years, a group of colleagues and I have been studying some questions that most psychotherapists don't like to ask out loud.

At the University of Chicago and elsewhere in the past fifteen years, a group of colleagues and I have been studying some questions that most psychotherapists don't like to ask out loud.

What is true is already so. Owning up to it doesn't make it worse. Not being open about it doesn't make it go away. And because it's true, it is what is there to be interacted with. Anything untrue isn't there to be lived. People can stand what is true, for they are already enduring it.

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ChangementEmotionsPersonality changePersonnalitéPsychotherapyPsychothérapie
First published 2002

About the author

Eugene T. Gendlin
Eugene T. Gendlin

1926 – 2017

Author

Eugene T. Gendlin

First published

2002

Pages

178

Read time

≈ 4h

Editions

18

Languages

English, German, French

Publisher

Bantam

ISBN

9780712647502

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