
Beyond Therapy
Igniting Life Focus Community Movements
Erving Polster(Author)
Routledge (Publisher)
1st Edition
Published on 30. September 2015
Book
Hardback
224 pages
978-1-4128-5689-8 (ISBN)
Description
In Beyond Therapy, Erving Polster examines the role of "life focus" in three of society's most familiar activities: ordinary conversation, the arts, and religion. He shows the life focus movement to be an indivisible complement to just simply living. In proposing a paradigm shift from psychotherapy's priority for changing people's troubled lives into the complementary purpose of illuminating their lives, the author invites the participation of many people who do not seek remedial treatment for emotional or psychological problems.
Polster incorporates a broader scenario for enhancing attention through community groups, showing that the convergence of people's minds on commonly important life themes creates enlightenment. This interlocked focus amplifies the ensuing conversational content and creates a meditation-like absorption. This kind of pointed focus, argues Polster, has the power to colour the lives of the participants.
This work offers rationale and design for life focus community groups, and also creates a heightened identity for the life focus movement, providing other foundational ideas that help to unify diverse approaches. Mental health professionals will benefit from its wealth of specific exercises and instructions for program design. Polster provides leaders and group members with a well-rounded perspective on the basics of personal enlightenment and communal belonging.
Polster incorporates a broader scenario for enhancing attention through community groups, showing that the convergence of people's minds on commonly important life themes creates enlightenment. This interlocked focus amplifies the ensuing conversational content and creates a meditation-like absorption. This kind of pointed focus, argues Polster, has the power to colour the lives of the participants.
This work offers rationale and design for life focus community groups, and also creates a heightened identity for the life focus movement, providing other foundational ideas that help to unify diverse approaches. Mental health professionals will benefit from its wealth of specific exercises and instructions for program design. Polster provides leaders and group members with a well-rounded perspective on the basics of personal enlightenment and communal belonging.
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Language
English
Place of publication
New York
United States
Publishing group
Taylor & Francis Inc
Target group
College/higher education
Dimensions
Height: 229 mm
Width: 152 mm
Weight
430 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-4128-5689-8 (9781412856898)
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Person
Erving Polster is the director of The Gestalt Training Center, San Diego, and the author of Gestalt Therapy Integrated, Every Person's Life is Worth a Novel, and From the Radical Center: The Heart of Gestalt Therapy.
Content
Acknowledgements
Section A. The Importance of Life Focus
1 What I Mean By Life Focus
2 The Drama of the Split Mind
3 Life as Microcosm
4 A Focus Revolution
Section B. How Life Focus Groups Work
5 Life Focus Community: Design Ideas
6 Artful Engagement
7 Themes that Mark a Lifetime
8 Communal Setting
Section C. Social Implications of Life Focus
9 From the Supernatural to the Human: Part 1
10 From the Supernatural to the Human: Part 2
11 A Psychotherapeutic Morality
12 Dependable Identity
13 Belonging and Indivisibility
14 A Social Trust
Bibliography
Index
Section A. The Importance of Life Focus
1 What I Mean By Life Focus
2 The Drama of the Split Mind
3 Life as Microcosm
4 A Focus Revolution
Section B. How Life Focus Groups Work
5 Life Focus Community: Design Ideas
6 Artful Engagement
7 Themes that Mark a Lifetime
8 Communal Setting
Section C. Social Implications of Life Focus
9 From the Supernatural to the Human: Part 1
10 From the Supernatural to the Human: Part 2
11 A Psychotherapeutic Morality
12 Dependable Identity
13 Belonging and Indivisibility
14 A Social Trust
Bibliography
Index