Meditation for Psychotherapists. Targeted Techniques to Enhance Your Clinical Skills

Meditation for Psychotherapists provides students and practitioners of psychotherapy with specific meditation techniques.

Chapters offer a comprehensive theoretical and practical approach as an adjunct to established professional development tools. This is the first time specific bespoke meditation techniques have been connected to different therapeutic modalities, building on the author’s already published work.

The book is accompanied by a website with audio-guided meditations and courses directed to an international audience across multiple psychotherapy models www.arosspsychotherapy.com/meditation.

CONTENTS

Introduction 1. Introduction to Meditation 2. Taking a Deep Breath 3. The Psychoanalytic Stance: External Listening 4. The Psychoanalytic Stance: Internal Listening 5. Body-Centred Psychotherapy: Somatic Perspectives 6. Person-Centred Counselling: Unconditional Positive Regard 7. Existential Psychotherapy: Working Phenomenologically 8. Mentalisation-Based Therapy: The Mentalising Stance 9. Other Complementary Techniques 10. Troubleshooting