- Acknowledgements
- Preface
- Contributors
- 1 The Question of Personal Therapy
- 2 The Training Analysis in the Mainstream Freudian Model
- 3 The Role of Personal Therapy in the Formation of a Jungian Analyst
- 4 Personal Therapy and Growth Work in Experiential-Humanistic Therapies
- 5 Personal Therapy in Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy
- 6 The Role and Current Practice of Personal Therapy in Systemic/Family Therapy
- 7 My Experience of Analysis with Fairbairn and Winnicott
- 8 My Experiences as a Patient in Five Psychoanalytic Psychotherapies
- 9 The Personal Therapy Experiences of a Rational Emotive-Behavior Therapist
- 10 The I and the Self
- 11 The Role of Individual and Marital Therapy in My Development
- 12 A Shamanic Tapestry
- 13 The Prevalence and Parameters of Personal Therapy in the United States
- 14 The Prevalence and Parameters of Personal Therapy in Europe and Elsewhere
- 15 Psychotherapists Entering Personal Therapy
- 16 The Selection and Characteristics of Therapists’ Psychotherapists
- 17 Outcomes and Impacts of the Psychotherapist’s Own Psychotherapy
- 18 On Analyzing Colleagues (Trainees Included)
- 19 Treating Psychotherapists with Cognitive Therapy
- 20 Feminist Therapy with Therapists
- 21 Listening to the Listener
- 22 Conducting Marital and Family Therapy with Therapists
- 23 Group Therapy for Therapists in Gestalt Therapy Training
- 24 Treating Impaired Psychotherapists and “Wounded Healers”
- 25 Research on Conducting Psychotherapy with Mental Health Professionals
- 26 Training Analyses
- 27 Boundaries And Internalization in the Psychotherapy of Psychotherapists
- Epilogue The Patient Psychotherapist, the Psychotherapist’s Psychotherapist, and the Therapist as a Person
- Appendix Guidelines for Firsthand Accounts
- Index
(p. 34) Personal Therapy and Growth Work in Experiential-Humanistic Therapies
- Chapter:
- (p. 34) Personal Therapy and Growth Work in Experiential-Humanistic Therapies
- Author(s):
Robert Elliott
and Rhea Partyka
- DOI:
- 10.1093/med:psych/9780195133943.003.0004
This chapter provides an overview of therapist personal growth work that is vital to living these values and becoming competent as an experiential-humanistic therapist. It argues that personal therapy is valuable only insofar as it facilitates personal growth in the context of a therapy that emphasizes awareness of immediate experience and supports personal agency—all of which takes place within an egalitarian, authentic therapeutic relationship that pursues wholeness through integration of multiple, often conflicting, aspects of self.
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- Acknowledgements
- Preface
- Contributors
- 1 The Question of Personal Therapy
- 2 The Training Analysis in the Mainstream Freudian Model
- 3 The Role of Personal Therapy in the Formation of a Jungian Analyst
- 4 Personal Therapy and Growth Work in Experiential-Humanistic Therapies
- 5 Personal Therapy in Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy
- 6 The Role and Current Practice of Personal Therapy in Systemic/Family Therapy
- 7 My Experience of Analysis with Fairbairn and Winnicott
- 8 My Experiences as a Patient in Five Psychoanalytic Psychotherapies
- 9 The Personal Therapy Experiences of a Rational Emotive-Behavior Therapist
- 10 The I and the Self
- 11 The Role of Individual and Marital Therapy in My Development
- 12 A Shamanic Tapestry
- 13 The Prevalence and Parameters of Personal Therapy in the United States
- 14 The Prevalence and Parameters of Personal Therapy in Europe and Elsewhere
- 15 Psychotherapists Entering Personal Therapy
- 16 The Selection and Characteristics of Therapists’ Psychotherapists
- 17 Outcomes and Impacts of the Psychotherapist’s Own Psychotherapy
- 18 On Analyzing Colleagues (Trainees Included)
- 19 Treating Psychotherapists with Cognitive Therapy
- 20 Feminist Therapy with Therapists
- 21 Listening to the Listener
- 22 Conducting Marital and Family Therapy with Therapists
- 23 Group Therapy for Therapists in Gestalt Therapy Training
- 24 Treating Impaired Psychotherapists and “Wounded Healers”
- 25 Research on Conducting Psychotherapy with Mental Health Professionals
- 26 Training Analyses
- 27 Boundaries And Internalization in the Psychotherapy of Psychotherapists
- Epilogue The Patient Psychotherapist, the Psychotherapist’s Psychotherapist, and the Therapist as a Person
- Appendix Guidelines for Firsthand Accounts
- Index
