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Glossary
★ NOTE: The purpose of this glossary is to clarify some of the concepts and words that appear on this website, as they are used within the therapy fields that I practice. This is not an exhaustive glossary for any particular modality. The names of significant people, such as the founders or creators of the modalities, are also included.
- Attunement
Attunement is being aware of another's experience and being responsive to her or him. Usually refers to the subtler levels of experience and non-verbal communication.
- Awareness
- Buddhist Psychotherapy
Buddhist Psychotherapy is the blending of current Western psychotherapeutic approaches and Buddhist psychology. Buddhist Psychotherapy is based on the Buddhist understanding of the cause of mental suffering, as expressed through the Four Noble Truths, and the notions of attachment and clinging to the concept of self as the perpetuating force of suffering. Buddhist Psychotherapy assumes that each person is fundamentally whole and complete, and thus capable of contentment just as she or he is. Human beings suffer not because they are deficient, but because of their reactions to what they perceive as suffering.
- Core Process Psychotherapy
- Counter-transference
In psychotherapy, counter-transference is the situation where the therapist, as a result of the therapy sessions, begins to transfer the therapist's own unconscious feelings onto the client. See "transference."
- Craniosacral Therapy
- Enquiry
- Felt sense
Eugene T. Gendlin, who developed the Focusing method and coined the term " felt sense," says that "[a] felt sense is not an emotion. We recognize emotions. We know when we are angry, or sad, or glad. A felt sense is something you do not at first recognize—it is vague and murky. It feels meaningful, but not known. It is a body-sense of meaning." (Gendlin, E., 1988, p.10)
- Field
- Franklyn Sills
Co-founder and the co-director of the Karuna Institute in Devon, England, and a pioneer in the biodynamic approach to Craniosacral Therapy. Many Biodynamic Craniosacral Therapy schools in the US and Europe teach the 2-year, 700-hour curriculum that Franklyn created. Franklyn continues to teach Biodynamic Craniosacral Therapy and Core Process Psychotherapy in Karuna Institute and other countries.
- Ida P. Rolf
(1896 - 1979) Developed Structural Integration, or otherwise more popularly known as Rolfing. The Ida P. Rolf Library is created and maintained by Pedro Prado, Rolfing faculty at the Brazilian Rolfing Association.
- Introjection
Internalizing or taking in whole concepts, values, or behaviors from external objects (persons) and incorporating that into our personality. If two incompatible concepts are internalized, we can feel very torn in trying to reconcile them inside.
- Maura Sills
Co-founder and co-director of the Karuna Institute in Devon, England. Maura developed Core Process Psychotherapy, a form of Buddhist Psychotherapy with a contemplative psychospiritual approach, with significant contribution from Franklyn Sills. Maura continues to teach Core Process Psychotherapy and Kum Nye at the Karuna Institute.
- Mindfulness
To be mindful means to dwell deeply into the present moment, so we are aware of what is going on within and around us in a non-judgmental way. A mindfulness practice, such as sitting meditation, is a practice to intentionally cultivate such awareness.
- Polarity Therapy
Founded by Dr. Randolph Stone, Polarity Therapy is a comprehensive health system that brings together eastern and western concepts of energy and health. In order to promote health and healing in the body, mind and spirit, Polarity Therapy is a holistic therapy that involves energy-based bodywork, exercises, dietary cleansing and self-awareness through psychotherapeutic approaches.
- Pre- and Perinatal Psychology
- Presence
- Projection
A defensive mechanism in which we attribute to others our discomfort with those aspects of our personality (thoughts and emotions) that we find difficult, offensive, or unattractive.
- Sangha
A group of people who come together because a common goal, vision or intention. Mostly used to refer to people who come together to practice mindful living based on Buddhist teachings and awareness practices.
- Transference
In psychotherapy, transference takes place when the patient transfers feelings and wishes experienced in earlier relationships into the relationship with the therapist. Transference in relationship can be positive or negative. In positive transference, the client is compliant or unrealistically overvalues the therapist. In negative transference, the client is defiant or dislikes the therapist. See "counter-transference."