Pre-Verbality in Focusing and the Need for Self Check

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  • MASUI Takeshi
    Division of Clinical Psychology, School of Medicine, University of Occupational and Environmental Hearth
  • IKEMI Akira
    Kitakyushu City Kokura Hospital
  • MURAYAMA Shoji
    Department of Education. Kyushu University

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  • フォーカシング体験における前言語性とその点検の必要性
  • ―"フォーカシング・チェック"の試み―
  • ―An Attempt at "Focusing Check"―

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Abstract

Though the Focusing process is not entirely non-verbal, in Focusing, careful attention is paid by the Focuser and the Listener to the pre-verbal experiential process. In other words, Focusing involves attending to the felt sense that is not easily expressed in words immediately. Hence, during the process of learning to Focus, the Focusing teacher attempts to communicate the experiences of Focusing to the student which are not easily done by words. Due to such difficulties, the Focusing student may (and quite frequently does) mistake the experiential process in Focusing with other processes. Often, the felt sense can be confused with other phenomena such as "autogenic discharge". Also the Focuser may not stay with the felt sense and drift into "free association" or frequently, certain processes in "meditation" can be confused with Focusing. Therefore, there is a need for a "check" by which the Focusing student can confirm the Focusing experience for himself. For the Focusing student, such a "check" serves not only to confirm the Focusing process, but also an aid to learning Focusing. We will report here a "Focusing Check" which we developed by translating Eugene Gendlin's "Focusing Check" and making several modifications in it so that it will be more understandable to the Japanese. Along with the "Focusing Check" we developed, the authors discuss the need for such a check.

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  • Journal of UOEH

    Journal of UOEH 5 (2), 243-248, 1983

    The University of Occupational and Environmental Health, Japan

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