This important book addresses specific ways in which therapists can engender the therapeutic process, especially with clients with whom nothing effective is happening. In actual transcripts, the author examines each client statement to show where therapeutic movement has taken place, and each therapist response to show how to did or did not help to bring about direct experiencing, or focusing.

1. Introduction
I. Focusing and Listening
2. Dead Ends
3. Eight Characteristics of an Experiential Process Step
4. What the Client Does to Enable an Experiential Step
to Come
5. What a Therapist Can Do to Engender an Experiential
Step
6. The Crucial Bodily Attention
7. Focusing
8. Excerpts from Teaching Focusing
9. Problems of Teaching Focusing during Therapy
10. Excerpts from One Client's Psychotherapy
II. Integrating Other Therapeutic Methods
11. A Unified View of the Field through Focusing and the
Experiential Method
12. Working with the Body: A New and Freeing Energy
13. Role Play
14. Experiential Dream Interpretation
15. Imagery
16. Emotional Catharsis, Reliving
17. Action Steps
18. Cognitive Therapy
19. A Process View of the Superego
20. The Life-Forward Direction
21. Values
22. It Fills Itself In
23. The Client Therapist Relationship
24. Should We Call It Therapy?

Eugene T. Gendlin, PhD (1926-2017), taught at the University of Chicago from 1964 to 1995. He was the founder and, for many years, the editor of Psychotherapy: Theory, Research and Practice. Dr. Gendlin was honored numerous times for his development of experiential psychotherapy. He was the first recipient of the Distinguished Professional Psychologist of the Year award from Division 42 (Psychologists in Independent Practice) of the American Psychological Association. He was awarded the Viktor Frankl prize by the city of Vienna and the Viktor Frankl Family Foundation in 2008. In 2016 he was honored with lifetime achievement awards from the World Association for Person-Centered and Experiential Psychotherapy and Counseling and the United States Association for Body Psychotherapy.