A Focusing Booklist

General Focusing

Campbell, Peter & McMahon, Edwin (1985), Biospirituality, Loyola Univ Press, USA

Flanagan, Kevin (1998) Everyday Genius, Dublin: Marino Books (Out of print)

Gendlin, Eugene T. (1981) Focusing, New York: Bantam

Gendlin, Eugene T. (1986) Let Your Body Interpret Your Dreams

Gendlin, Eugene T. (1962) Experiencing and the Creation of Meaning: A Philosophical and Psychological Approach to the Subjective, Northwestern University Press.

Levin, David Michael (Ed) (1997), Language Beyond Postmodernism: Saying and thinking in Gendlin's philosophy. Evanston: Northwestern University Press.

Lou, Nada Thinking at the Edge: Grassroots Introduction to TAE Manual (Book One)

McMahon, Edwin (1993), Beyond The Myth of Dominance, Sheed & Ward, USA

Rice, Harbert (2008),  Language Process Notes, New York: The Focusing Institute

Weiser Cornell, Ann. (1996), The Power of Focusing. Berkeley: Focusing Resources.



Some books in which Focusing figures prominently:

Amodeo, John (1986) Being Intimate: A Guide to Sussessful Relatinships. Penguin Arkana.

Amodeo, John (2000). The Authentic Heart: An Eightfold Path of Midlife Love, includes chapter on "Focusing: A Path to Befriending Yourself."

Levine, Peter Waking the Tiger – discussion of integrating the felt sense into work with trauma. See also Peter Levine's In an Unspoken Voice.

Perl, Sondra (2004), Felt Sense: Writing with the Body, Portsmouth: Heinemann

Todres, Les (2007), Embodied Enquiry: Phenomenological Touchstones for Research, Psychotherapy and Spirituality, Basingstoke, Hampshire: Palgrave Macmillan

Welwood, John. (2000) Toward a Psychology of Awakening: Buddhism, Psychotherapy and the Path of Personal and Spiritual Transformation


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Books on Counselling & Psychotherapy

Gendlin, Eugene T. (1996) Focus-oriented Psychotherapy: a Manual of the Experiential Method New York: The Guilford Press

Friedman, Neil (2007), Focusing-Oriented Therapy (FOT) New Yourk: iUniverse Inc

Purton, Campbell (2007), Person-Centred Therapy: The Focusing-Oriented Approach, New York: PalgraveMacmillan

Purton, Campbell (2007), The Focusing-Oriented Counselling Primer, Ross-on-Wye: PCCS Books.