Open-hearted therapist: Practice of helping relationships and transpersonal openness

Author: Michel Claeys Bouuaert

Editions Le Souffle d'or 2008

Very good condition

Michel Claeys Bouuaert explores the work of the psychotherapist from the perspective of his own personal development. He leads a new reflection on the positioning of the therapist and his work in a transpersonal approach, that is to say, which includes other dimensions of consciousness than that of the classical psyche. What makes a therapist good is above all his personal anchoring in the resources of his deep being. Few books have addressed with such clarity the transpersonal dimension of therapeutic work, a perspective that the author does not hesitate to describe as a "new paradigm" of psychotherapy. Among the themes developed (anchoring in the higher self, the inner parent/inner child encounter, belief patterns), he insists on three major themes of the helping relationship: the quality of presence to oneself, working with emotions, and working with dreams in psychotherapy. This book is intended for anyone interested in the helping relationship in the broad sense, or even in working on oneself. It includes many specific tools for the helping relationship: inner work, verbal messages, guided exercises, mastery of the mind... This innovative, simplified psychotherapeutic perspective, the effectiveness of which can be experienced by everyone, will be a challenging and enlightening tool for the reader, an invitation to go further in their personal and professional approach, whatever it may be.