Psychotherapy researchers have traditionally focused on therapy outcomes outside of the therapeutic setting. This presents the difficulty of correlating outcomes with what goes on in the clinical setting, a nearly impossible task. It is no surprise, consequently, that therapists have seen such research as largely irrelevant to clinical practice. In a quest for greater understanding Al Mahrer asks - why should we continue to exclusively use traditional research methods if they do not provide therapists with data on effective therapeutic methods? Considering this, Mahrer proposes an alternative approach to the meaning of psychotherapeutic change and its measurement. The keystone of his method is a conceptually sound in-therapy change paradigm based on experiential-humanistic theory but useful is a wide range of therapeutic approaches. Three new meanings of psychotherapeutic change, drawn mainly from psychotherapeutic practice, are introduced as a basis for conducting in-therapy research. First, careful study should allow the therapist to predict possible ways of being and becoming for the patient. A second consists of identifying moments in a session where something good is happening. Third, Mahrer proposes to study the statements of therapists as prescriptions for change. Using illustrations from psychotherapeutic sessions, the author demonstrates how this done.

Psychotherapeutic Change: An Alternative Approach to Meaning and Measurement

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Alvin R. Mahrer

Psychology & Counseling

W.W. Norton & Co., Inc.

<p>This book builds upon the various approaches of experiential psychotherapy to propose a single theory, complete with its own methods of bringing about therapeutic change. Therapeutic experiencing is presented as an efficient and effective means of undergoing the process of deep and substantial change, of bringing fourth the kinds of changes set forth by existential-humanistic conceptualizations of what human beings are like and can become.</p>

Therapeutic Experiencing: The Process of Change (A Norton professional book)

Today psychotherapy is a big business. Practitioners have contributed to building an infrastructure of security and self reinforcement. Most of the current issues or problems that psychotherapy addresses have been conceived, created, categorized and maintained by psychotherapists. Could it be that these issues exist more in the mind of the profession rather than in the person who is seeking assistance for the problem? In this exciting new book, Dr. Alvin R. Mahrer, addresses issues related to what psychotherapy has been and suggest bringing the profession of psychotherapy to a close. He discusses and outlines how to replace psychotherapy with a innovative new profession based on a revolutionary new answer to the question - What is Psychotherapy For? TABLE OF CONTENTS Preview: Since We Now Know What Psychotherapy Is For, Here Is A Grand Alternative Chapter 1 - Task Force Reports Provide The Professional Guidelines For How To Do Psychotherapy Chapter 2 - What Are Some Serious Problems With The Professional Guidelines For How To Do Psychotherapy? Chapter 3 - Are There Plausible Alternatives To The Practice Guidelines? Chapter 4 - A Touchy Question: What Is Psychotherapy For? Chapter 5 - The Experiential Alternative To What Psychotherapy Is For Chapter 6 - What Are Some Problems With The Idea Of 'Problems'? Chapter 7 - Which Is Better - Starting With 'Scene Of Strong Feeling' Or Starting With The Mental Disorder/ Problem? Conclusions And Invitations References

What Is Psychotherapy For? An Alternative to the Profession of Psychotherapy

Howard Gontovnick Publications

There are many moments throughout the day when you can become a whole other person. That is, you can evolve into someone new and different from the person you have been for many years. Following Mahrer s direction, you will learn how to experience something deeper and allow this to radically change who and what you are. Create opportunities for deeper qualities to bubble to the surface and say hello, this is really a part of me I can get use to being this way. This book will open many new doors and guide you through a journey of self discovery. It is an opportunity to learn about the transformation process and guide you toward this idea of becoming a whole new person, aka an optimal person. TABLE OF CONTENTS (1) Transformation Becoming The Whole New Person (2) Transformation Method 1: Have Experiential Sessions To Become The Whole New Person You Can Become (3) Transformation Method 2: Replace Your Ordinary Behavior With Optimal Behavior, and Enter The Optimal State (4) Introduction To Transformation Methods 3-5: Re-create The Origin Of A Person (5) Transformation Method 3: Put The Current Feeling In The Early Context, And Act It Out, Celebrate It (6) Transformation Method 4: In The Remembered Early Scene, Discover A Deeper Potential For Experiencing, And Act It Out, Celebrate It (7) Transformation Method 5: Go Back Into The Early Scene, Do What You Could Should Have Done That Could Have Altered You And The Course Of Your Life (8) Transformation Is For You, Not Someone Else; Transformation Is The Way To Achieve Whatever Your Life Is To Achieve (A) Conclusions (B) Some Final Words To The Reader (C) References

Transformation: A Glimpse Into The Future Of How Change Will Come About

PH.D.

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Psychotherapeutic Change: An Alternative Approach to Meaning and Measurement

Therapeutic Experiencing: The Process of Change (A Norton professional book)

What Is Psychotherapy For? An Alternative to the Profession of Psychotherapy

Transformation: A Glimpse Into The Future Of How Change Will Come About