By bringing together the bodymind expertise of the body-oriented tradition and the relational expertise of both humanistic and psychoanalytic traditions, we can develop a 21st century embodied-relational way of working that views the whole client-therapist relationship as a complex bodymind intersubjective system. Rather than a meeting of minds, [...]
The Client’s Conflict across the Window of Tolerance (2015)
Michael - Handouts2017-04-07T03:04:13+00:00This handout is a more comprehensive and complicated version of the client's internal conflict, relating this conflict to the window of tolerance. There is a simpler version which only describes the client's internal conflict as occurring between their 'habitual mode' and their 'emergency'.
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The Client’s Conflict between ‘Habitual Mode’ and ‘Emergency’ (2015)
Michael - Handouts2018-09-01T14:33:51+00:00The notion of the client's conflict is foundational in all depth psychotherapy. This hand-out here is a more evolved and updated version of the 1998 hand-out on the client's internal conflict. There is also a slightly more comprehensive and complicated version which relates this conflict to the [...]