Hakomi Mindfulness-Centered Somatic Psychotherapy
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As he invited us to check out the wisdom of how he was learning to help people with our own wisdom, so we now invite the greater professional therapy community to do the same in relation to this volume.
Index
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abaissement, 20
acceptance and equality, character map, 86–88
accessing, 161
contact experience, 166–67
definition, 295
ensuring mindfulness, 167–68
essential skills, 166–74
flow of process, 238
four-step, 166–74
immersing fully in the experience, 168–69
issue, theme and world, 174–77
memories, 134
preconditions for success with, skills, 165–66
questions, 170–71
studying the experience, 169–74
time and space, 177
unconscious material, 134
unfolding, 171–74
acknowledgments, mindfulness experiments, 187
affect-motor schemas, 14, 74
affect synchrony, working through core beliefs, 224
Agazarian, Yvonne, 347
Alexander, Franz, 232
Allen, Frederick, 137
Alon, Ruthy, 341
American Psychological Association, 357, 395
Amini, Fari, 165
Anderson, Susan, 210
Aposhyan, Susan, 357
assisted self-study
Hakomi, 130
mindfulness, 61–64, 116
organization of experience, 60–61
self in Buddhism and psychotherapy, 64–65
see also self-study
attachment
character development, 78
compassion, 354
earning a secure, 209
mother-child, 71–72
relationships in present moment, 7–8
theory, 152, 204, 227, 345, 397
attention
mindfulness, 21
redirection of, 162
regulation of, processes, 117–18
something out of awareness, 133
attractors, 78, 301
character development, 78
stability, 54–55
attunement, Hakomi method, 100–101, 151
authenticity, Hakomi method, 102–4
awareness
bodily defenses allowing for deepening, 38
body, 37
calling attention to something out of, 133
Hakomi experiments, 182–83
improving self-regulation through self-, 290–92
mindfulness and body, 37
model embracing, and complexity, 351–52
positioning and, 399
Baba, Meher, 343
Baikie, Karen A., 300–307, 393
Balint, Michael, 206, 215
barriers
case example, 196–97
definition, 295
flow of process, 238
Hakomi therapist working with, 195–98
relating to the defense, 198–99
sensitivity cycle, 199–201, 202
Barstow, Cedar, 131, 139–48, 295, 346, 393
Bateson, Gregory, 42, 161, 243, 343
Beck, Joko, 116
Becker, Robert O., 164
being and belonging, character map, 79–80
beliefs
and body, 68–69
gaining access to, 69–71
see also core organizing beliefs; working through core beliefs
Benz, Dyrian, 115, 344
Berman Morris, 42
Berne, Eric, 203, 335
bioenergetics, 25, 184, 263, 340, 342
body
beliefs and the, 68–69
bodily defenses allowing for deepening awareness, 38
bodily expression as information, 38
felt shift, 39
finishing unfinished business, 37–38
mindfulness and, awareness, 37
natural growth processes, 39–40
perspective of Hakomi, 16–17
placing us in here and now where change happens, 36–38
remembering what mind cannot, 35–36
royal road to core unconscious, 17, 34–35 49, 165, 281
shaping the body-mind, 39
staying in contact with, 34–36
Boorstein, Sylvia, 108
bottom-up processing, 47, 113, 272, 280, 284
definition, 295–96
Bradshaw, John, 204, 205, 207
Buddha, 23, 58, 62
Buddhism, 4, 18, 23, 41, 61, 112, 228, 341
self in, 64–65
Buddhists, 3, 27, 29, 109, 125, 208
burdened/enduring pattern, 264–67
freedom, 83–86
therapeutic strategies and interventions, 266–67
therapist adaptations, 265–66
therapist limitations and strengths, 246
transference and countertransference reactions, 248
Caldwell, Christine, 357
caregiver, power differential role differences, 140
character
definition, 296
neurobiological sequence of development, 78–79
character map, 79–88, see also Hakomi character theory
character process, 296
character strategy, 296
character theory, see Hakomi character theory
charming/seductive pattern, 263–64
interdependence and intimacy, 82–83
therapeutic strategies and interventions, 264
therapist adaptations, 264
therapist limitations and strengths, 246
transference and countertransference reactions, 248
child
connections with mothers, 71–73
definition, 296
as mapmaker, 39
child states, 203–4
acceptance of nourishment, 212–13
child consciousness in psychotherapy, 208
communicating with the child, 210–11
decisions from past inhibiting now, 206
developmental arrest, 205
earning a secure attachment, 209
growing the child within, 215–16
inner child’s dark side, 207–8
integrating natural child with embodied adult, 215
intruding into the present, 204–5
magical stranger and missing experience, 211–12
outdated perceptions, 206
progression processes, 214–15
recognizing, 209
regressing in service of growth, 208
regressive states, 206–7
regressive states in therapy, 210–14
working with the child, 210–14
clarity, sensitivity cycle, 200, 201, 202
clients
anchoring in outer world and everyday consciousness, 289–90
bodily expression as information for, 38
comforting and providing nourishment, 134–35
commitment to mindfulness and honesty, 22–23
considerations for, with structural limitations, 288–92
contribution, 245, 247
engaging, in larger world, 135–37
helping to find meaning, 134
improving self-regulation, 290–92
intake and diagnosis, 288–89
power differential role differences, 140
psychotherapy as potentially overstimulating, 275–76
risk with underdeveloped psychological structures, 283–88
safety, 104–5
trauma states, 273–75
uses of mindfulness with traumatized, 278–80
working with, new to mindfulness, 307–19
closed systems, indicators of, 190–91
Cole, David, 129–38, 161–77, 393, 396
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collaboration, Hakomi therapy, 356
communication, 282, 286
compassion, 354
complex adaptive systems (CAS), 53, 71, 89, 296
definition, 296
experimental attitude, 123–24
connection, 282, 286
consciousness, 4, 8–10, 36, 37, 40, 120, 271
attention, 117–18
Buddhist technology of, 15
character map, 79
child, 127, 204–5, 207, 208–11, 214–15, 240
contact, 151
definition, 161
empathy and understanding, 102
everyday, of clients, 289–90
experience, 20, 24–25
flow of process, 238, 239–40
following, 129–31
Hakomi, 69, 72–73, 201, 244, 252, 287–88
Hakomi principles, 55, 56, 59, 61
healing, 125, 127
implicit processes, 122–23
integrating client, 135
internal-individual, 43–44
jump of, 249
leading, 131
loving presence, 102
mind-body, 47
mindfulness, 47–49, 52, 63–64, 109, 111, 114–16, 133, 217–18, 224, 228, 237, 239, 250, 292
mindfulness experiments, 178, 182, 187, 190
nonordinary state of, 141–42
ordinary, 8, 48, 109, 129, 133, 161, 163, 165, 178, 187, 210, 224, 239–40, 243–45, 298
primacy of, 27
problem, 163–64, 165, 168
psychodynamic tradition, 13–14
rational, 67
self, 64, 68
tracking, 155
contact
definition, 296
flow of process, 238, 239
Hakomi therapy, 155–58
mastering, 158–60
practical skill of, 156–57
using, 157–58
contemporary relational psychoanalysis, 96
cooperation of the unconscious, 38, 56, 93, 100, 105–6, 107, 132, 266, 283, 339, 344
core beliefs, 296, see also core organizing beliefs
core material, 296
core organizing beliefs
beliefs and the body, 68–69
case examples, 70, 74
connection to other theoretical concepts, 73–75
gaining access to beliefs, 69–71
Hakomi concept of, 74
Hakomi therapy, 66–75
and recent research, 71–73
see also working through core beliefs
countertransference
as system, 247–51
systemic perspective, 245–47
typical reactions, 248
creativity, 54, 90, 208, 323, 346
mindfulness, 47, 188
therapeutic intervention, 270
Crisp, Tony, 36
curiosity, experimental attitude, 127
damage repair, 159
Damasio, A., 33–35, 68, 225
Daye, Maci, 1–12, 120–28, 346, 393–94
decentering, 110
deepening
accessing questions, 170–71
client’s experience of present moment, 133–34
definition, 297
details and meanings, 170
flow of process, 238
fourth-step interventions, 174
meaning-experience interface, 170
mindfulness, 109
studying the experience, 169–74
unfolding, 171–74
defense, understanding, as a barrier, 198–99
Del Prince, Phil, 307–19, 394
Deng Ming-Dao, 399
dependent/endearing pattern, 257–59
getting support, 80–81
therapeutic strategies and interventions, 258–59
therapist adaptations, 258
therapist limitations and strengths, 246
transference and countertransference reactions, 248
Descartes, René, 33, 46
developmental arrest, child state, 205
Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM), 88, 277, 349, 351
disidentification, 16, 111, 225
mindfulness, 113–14, 208
transformation, 228–29
dispositions, 43, 49, 68, 89, 118, 219, 222, 244, 254, 270, 296
borderline, 88, 285
burdened/enduring, 85, 267
charming/seductive, 264
industrious/overfocused, 88, 268
self-reliant, 81
definition, 297
dissociation, 9, 33, 79, 112–13, 153, 230, 276, 279, 283
Dogen, Eihei (Zen master), 23, 58, 59, 62
Dychwald, Ken, 38
Eastern Institute of Technology, 348, 397
effectiveness, sensitivity cycle, 200, 201, 202
Eisman, Jon, 76–90, 161–77, 204, 252–71, 344, 346, 394
Ekman, Paul, 155
Elkins, David N., 358
emergent attractors, 55
emotional management, 27–28, 143, 154
emotional memory, 24–25, 35, 48, 60, 118, 123, 234, 274
empathy, Hakomi method, 100–101, 102–4
Engler, Jack, 64, 358
Enlightenment, 62, 110, 342
Epstein, Mark, 62
Erickson, Milton, 69, 243, 244, 342
essential method, 19–22
client’s commitment, 22–23
formative experiences, 25–26
honesty, 22–23
implicit beliefs, 24–25
loving presence, 23–24
mindfulness, 22–23
mindfulness and little experiments, 26–27
nonverbal indicators, 25–26
positive missing experiences, 28–29
present experience, 24–25
procedural memory, 24–25
shifting vision, 29–30
spontaneous emotional management, 27–28
therapist’s state of mind, 23–24
Essential Self, 40, 117, 224, 271, 321
ethics, 139–48
case example, 145–46, 147
importance of resolving difficulties, 144–46
power differential, 140–41
proactivity, 147
therapeutic use of touch, 142–44
working in nonordinary states, 141–42
European Association for Body Psychotherapy, 357
European Association of Psychotherapy, 347
exaggeration, mindfulness, 186
experience
deepening the, 169–74
immersing fully in the, 168–69
issue, theme and world, 174–77
levels of experiencing, 353–54
magical stranger and missing, 211–12
meaning-experience interface, 170
organization of, 60–61
present, as focus of mindful therapy, 48
providing positive missing, 28–29
time and space, 177
tracking for signs of present, 153–54
unfolding process, 171–74
working through core beliefs and missing, 222–23
experiential learning, transformation, 232–34
experiential perspective, Hakomi, 14–15
experimental attitude in Hakomi therapy, 120–28
complex adaptive systems (CAS), 123–24
curiosity, 127
healing, 125–27
implicit processes, 122–23
making guesses, 121
reliability, 127–28
therapeutic rationale, 121–22
trusting organicity, 124–25
types of experiments, 121–22
validity, 127–28
expressive/clinging pattern, 269–70
acceptance and equality, 86–88
therapeutic strategies and interventions, 270
therapist adaptations, 269–70
therapist limitations and strengths, 246
transference and countertransference reactions, 248
family therapists, human relationships, 244
Feinstein, David, 358
Feldenkrais, Moshe, 111, 340, 341
felt sense, body, 39
Fischer, Anne, 66–75, 394
Fisher, Rob, 4, 6–12, 242–51, 346, 394–95
flow of process, Hakomi method, 237–41
following, 129–31, 138
leading within, 132–35
formative experiences, essential method, 25–26
Fosha, Diana, 99, 345, 357, 358
fourth-step interventions, deepening, 174
freedom, character map, 83–86
Freiberg, Selma, 274
Freud, Sigmund, 16, 44, 61, 137, 229, 310
rational ego, 34
repetition compulsion, 55, 224, 243
repression and impulses, 30
self-organization, 341
struggle around “primitive wish,” 195
Fuller, Robert, 336
Gallegos, Eligio S., 358
Gendlin, Eugene, 39, 111, 164, 349, 358
Germer, Christopher, 119, 122, 123
Gestalt therapy, 15, 110, 113, 184, 186, 233, 335, 338, 340–42
Gindler, Elsa, 337, 341, 342
Gladwell, Malcolm, 35, 153
Goleman, Daniel, 114, 152
Greenberg, Leslie, 39
Greenspan, Miriam, 358
Grof, Stanislav, 36
growth, impulse toward, 354
guesses, experimental attitude, 121
Gunaratana, Henepola, 61
Günther, Uta, 281–93, 395
Guntrip, Harry, 208, 213, 215
Hakomi case illustration
accessing implicit knowledge, 7
attachment in present moment, 7–8
studying in mindfulness, 8–10
transformation and integration, 10–12
Hakomi character theory, 76–90, 252–55, 270–71
acceptance and equality, 86–88
being and belonging, 79–80
burdened/enduring pattern, 83–86, 264–67
character in the real world, 89–90
character map, 79–88
charming/seductive pattern, 82–83, 263–64
comparison chart, 88–89
dependent/endearing pattern, 80–81, 257–59
expressive/clinging patterns, 86–88, 269–70
freedom, 83–86
getting support, 80–81
independence, 81–82
industrious/overfocused pattern, 86–88, 267–68
interdependence and intimacy, 82–83
neurobiological sequence for character development, 78–79
self-reliant pattern, 81–82, 259–61
sensitive/withdrawn pattern, 79–80, 255–57
terminology, 88
tough/generous pattern, 82–83, 261–63
Hakomi context of research and science, 347–59
appropriate trainees, 355–56
beyond acute symptom alleviation, 349–50
cautions, 353
clinician-researcher interface, 350–51