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Article: Honouring the Body in Psychotherapy: Using Neuroscience to Strengthen Gendlin's Directive
- Article from:
- Constructivism in the Human Sciences
- Article date:
- January 1, 2004
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Philosopher and psychotherapy theorist Eugene Gendlin proposes that clients' autonomie somatic responses during therapy provide a more trustworthy gauge of the experiential usefulness of therapist interventions than do consciously mediated assessments. Building on this basic proposition Gendlin argues that therapists should only pursue moments in therapy that provoke a subtle "stirring" response within clients, or what he labels a "carrying forward" reaction. In this article the carrying forward construct is explained and its potential therapeutic usefulness outlined. Carrying forward has never been empirically validated. Therefore, a possible barrier to therapeutic application of carrying ...