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Transformational Chairwork : Using Psychotherapeutic Dialogues in Clinical Practice
By Scott Kellogg
Transformational Chairwork: Using Psychotherapeutic Dialogues in Clinical Practice is a comprehensive guide to the art and science of Chairwork. This book provides therapists with a history of the method, a theoretical framework, and practical strategies for using psychotherapeutic dialogues to facilitate healing and change.
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Chairwork is a powerful psychotherapeutic technique that uses chairs to signify aspects of an individual's life in need of reconciliation. By giving voice to internal and external conflicts, clients can enter into clarifying dialogues that facilitate resolution and healing.
Scott Kellogg, a master practitioner, traces the history of this expressive therapy from its roots in Psychodrama and Gestalt Therapy to its current application in various therapeutic approaches, including Schema Therapy and CBT. The book serves as an invaluable guide for psychotherapists of all theoretical orientations.
Filled with clinical vignettes, sample scripts, and practical guidelines, Transformational Chairwork empowers therapists to creatively use empty chairs to help clients confront difficult emotions, resolve trauma, and integrate conflicting parts of the self.
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This timely book offers an engaging and comprehensive introduction to a simple, but powerfully effective, expressive psychotherapeutic modality - written by one of its current master practitioners. Chairwork is a psychotherapeutic technique, with roots in Psychodrama and Gestalt Therapy, that uses chairs to signify aspects of an individuals life in need of reconciliation. The creative use of empty chairs can spatially differentiate and evoke conflicted voices - both external and internal - allowing them to more fully enter into clarifying dialogues that can facilitate resolution and healing.
Scott Kellogg reveals that this therapeutic art has played a central role in the history of expressive therapies and continues to be incorporated into various therapeutic approaches, especially the growing number that recognize the importance of working with inner ‘parts’. By tracing the development of this ‘empty chair’ technique, Kellogg provides us with a long overdue historical orientation that makes for fascinating reading and establishes this method within larger currents of theory and practice.
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Fabulous book for any therapist looking to take their practice to another level in experiential work. Great with Schema Therapy.
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Outstanding and detailed book by Scott Kellogg. Filled with examples and descriptions of the different ways you can use chairwork. A lot of information on deepening techniques which chairwork trainers often miss. This is a very important book. I cannot recommend it enough.
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Put simply, if you want to learn about Chairwork then you need to buy this book. Dr Scott Kellogg has written a brilliantly clear and compelling case for the power of chair work to resolve and integrate splits and transform lives. I have used Chairwork in my own therapy and found it both powerful and immediate. Chair work allows both client and worker/therapist deal with some very deep issues in a safe and collaborative way and through this book and the training I have discovered new ways of working. Dr Kellogg not only outlines what Chairwork but the book has numerous examples of client-therapist dialogue which enables the reader to consider the applicability to their own clients. Highly recommended.
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I attended a CPD event with Scott Kellog recently and was inspired to use chair work in my work as a therapist once again. This book gives a fabulous short history of chair work and explains contemporary developments. It is also fabulous in the way that it demonstrates how chair work can be used to work responsibly and creatively with a wide range of issues - giving informative vignettes in each section. I have found it invaluable in my work and am already seeing results. I would highly recommend it! Worth every penny!
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I bought this after seeing an inspiring Scott Kellogg workshop. It is highly readable, giving a theoretical background which is, unusually for such textbooks, really interesting and understandable. It helps give you a thorough grounding in chair work and has already enhanced my therapeutic skills. The case studies are thorough and fascinating. Subjects covered include trauma and expression of anger. I only wish this book was twice as long. I do, however, feel that it is expensive.
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I read this book cover to cover devouring every little detail and re reading a few sections multiple times. A wealth of experience is shared with techniques clearly described and demonstrated with sample scripts illuminates the world of Chair-work. A stunning book.