- He is an American philosopher and psychologist.
- He was born in 1926 and died in 2007.
- His major accomplishments are in the areas of philosophy and psychotherapy. He is especially known for the development of focusing psychotherapy, which emphasizes the intrinsic perception of feelings and experiences.
- Focusing is a method of deepening one’s understanding of one’s own feelings and issues by focusing attention on vague and nebulous sensations and experiences within the mind. Gendlin also claimed that this unique approach allows people to access their inner self and gain insights that lead to transformation and growth.
- Gendlin was also a philosopher, with a particular interest in Edmundo Hussar’s phenomenology and Martin Heidegger’s ontology. He adopted the ideas of these philosophers and developed his own philosophical approach. His book, Experiential Processes and the Creation of Meaning, delves deeply into the relationship between language and experience, and the interaction of mind and body.
- In general, Eugene Gendlin was an influential scholar in the fields of psychotherapy and philosophy, and his ideas have been carried over into modern psychology and philosophy.
1962
- Experiencing Scale
1964
- A Theory of Personality Change
1968
- Focusing ability in psychotherapy, personality and creativity
- Gendlin, E.T., J. Beebe, J. Cassens, M. Klein & M. Oberlander (1968). Focusing ability in psychotherapy, personality and creativity. In J.M. Shlien (Ed.), Research in psychotherapy. Vol. III, pp. 217-241. Washington, DC: APA. From http://previous.focusing.org/gendlin/docs/gol_2049.html
- The Experiential Response
- Gendlin, E. T. (1968). The experiential response. Use of interpretation in treatment, 208-227.
- PDF 1973
- Experiential Psychotherapy
- Gendlin, E.T. (1973). Experiential psychotherapy. In R. Corsini (Ed.), Current psychotherapies (pp. 317-352). Itasca, IL: Peacock. From http://previous.focusing.org/gendlin/docs/gol_2029.html
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