A Preliminary Examination of the Concept of "Object": From G. H. Mead to Gendlin in the 1980s

In the early 1980s, Gendlin began a preliminary examination of what an “object” is to living processes. By “preliminary,” I mean that at that time, Gendlin was examining only objects for animals that had acquired perception and behavior, fo

情動 (エモーション) とフェルトセンス

情動 (エモーション) とフェルトセンス（直接参照体）との区別は、ジェンドリンにとって年を追うに連れますます重要 になっていきました。そこで、以下ではまず彼がこの2種類の感情を区別した歴史を振り返ります。次に、『プロセスモデル』で論じられている区別がフォーカシングの実践とどのように対応しているかを検討することにします。最後に、両感情の区別にもかかわらず、実践においてはそれらが連続したものとして捉えられていることを指摘します。 2種類の感情の区別、その変遷 『プロセスモデル

フォーカシングは催眠と異なる

「私の指先を見つめてください。いいですよ。そして瞼がだんだん重くなる。そうそう。では、ゆっくり目を開けてください」 「いまー、あなたはー、このレモンがー、甘く感じられます。甘〜く感じられる・・・では、食べてみてください」 「甘いです、甘いです！」 この時、催眠をかけられた人はフェルトセンスにフォーカシングすることができていません。 フェルトセンスが形成されるには意識の覚醒状態をある程度保っていることが必要です。形成されていれば、いくら「甘く感じられる」と暗示をかけられて

Focusing differs from hypnosis

“Look at my fingertips. Yes, yes, yes. And your eyelids are getting heavier and heavier. OK. Open your eyes gradually.” "Now you can feel the sweetness of this lemon. It feels sweet. Then, try to eat it.” “It's sweet, sweet!" At this poin

When the level of the Experiencing Scale "rises too high"

I personally call it "the EXP level rises too high" when the level of the experiencing scale is so high that it is inappropriate for the situation. I say "personally" because it does not fit the usual Focusing values. Normally, in the Focu

神戸市内で4/13 (土) 、テーマは傾聴・リスニング。まだ残席あります。よろしかったらどうぞ。

Day and night at Kansai University

Emotion and felt sense

Gendlin’s distinction between emotion and felt sense (direct referent) became increasingly important. I will first review the history of his distinction between these two types of feelings. Next, I will examine how what is discussed in “A P

Dewey’s “transaction” and Gendlin’s “interaction first”

In “A Process Model (APM)” (Gendlin, 2018), Gendlin discusses the “interaction of body with its environment,” which seems to have been gradually developed into his philosophy from John Dewey and George H. Mead’s discussion of the “interacti

Gendlin’s writings that prepared “A Process Model”

There are two types of Gendlin's writings related to “A Process Model (APM)” (Gendlin, 2018): the first type is his writings that prepared APM, and the second type is his writings that supplemented APM after its completion. This time, I wou

Dewey's position towards the “spectator” and Gendlin's position towards the "idealized observer": based on their views of old and new physics

Gendlin wrote a paper on physics with its expert in 1983. In it, the modern quantum theory that has replaced classical physics is briefly described as follows: This view of quantum theory as an interactional idea did not begin with Gendlin

“Reversal” and the History of Metaphor Theory

In “A Process Model (APM)” (Gendlin, 2018), the ideas formulated in “Experiencing and the Creation of Meaning (ECM)” (Gendlin, 1962/1997) were applied and expanded in various ways. I consider that a typical example is his metaphor theory. L