Beyond Psychology: An Introduction to Metapsychology

by Frank A. Gerbode, John Durkin (Introduction)

Overview

Person-Centered Techniques put You Back in Control of Your Destiny

Metapsychology is the science of human nature and experience as viewed by you--the one who experiences--from the inside out, not by an outside "expert" trying to look in. The methods of "Applied Metapsychology" recognize you as the authority at the center of your world of experience, and provide tools to enable you to improve personal relationships, increase personal power, and fashion your world into the loving, fascinating, and fulfilling place you always wanted it to be.

Readers of this book will learn...
* The principles and methodology of Applied Metapsychology, a truly effective method for understanding yourself, your own mind, and your world of experience.
* The principles of Traumatic Incident Reduction (TIR), a technique for resolving the traumatic incidents that build upon each other to produce a network of distress that can lead to Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) .
* Specific other techniques to help you address the issues which concern you most--relationships, job satisfaction, and unwanted emotions such as grief and anger.
* A systematic method of case-planning for designing coherent and effective strategies for achieving these ends in a relatively short period of time.

Product Details

BN ID:	2940016348650
Publisher:	Loving Healing Press
Publication date:	03/02/2013
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	440
File size:	4 MB

About the Author

From the Author
In addition to Breuer and Freud, Gerbode credits Carl Rogers’ "client-centered" approach to therapy, and the gradient repetitive procedures of "desensitization" developed from the behavior therapy of Joseph Wolpe, as instrumental in his formulation of metapsychological procedures. Various alternative techniques, including Gestalt Therapy, Cognitive Therapy, Dianetic Therapy, and Rational Emotive Therapy contributed materially to the subject of metapsychology.

Dr. Gerbode was also strongly influenced by the ideas of the Hungarian psychiatrist Thomas Szasz, who objected to the labeling of people as "mentally ill" simply because they were undergoing cognitive or emotional disturbances. For this same reason, metapsychology rejects the traditional forms of diagnosis and the "healer/patient" medical model, choosing to call its procedures viewing rather than "therapy". In addition to removing any stigma from the practice of viewing, this nonevaluative, non-judgmental approach to mental exploration returns appropriate dignity to the one who is doing the real work- the viewer.

In 1986, Dr. Gerbode founded the Institute for Research in Metapsychology and the Center for Applied Metapsychology in Palo Alto, California. Subsequently, Centers have been opened throughout the United States, Europe, and Australia by those trained in the technical procedures of metapsychology.

About the Author
Dr. Gerbode is an Honors graduate of Stanford University who later pursued graduate studies in philosophy at Cambridge University in England. He received his medical degree from Yale University, and completed a psychiatric residency at Stanford University Medical Center in the early 1970s. Gerbode is the author of numerous papers and articles, which have been published in the Journal of Neurochemistry, the International Journal of Neuropharmacology, the Journal of Rational Emotive and Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, IRM Newsletter and elsewhere. He teaches and lectures internationally.

Editorial Reviews

Frank A. Gerbode has amassed a truly excellent and workable knowledge of the subject. It is offered in easy to comprehend, extremely readable style. I have long believed that the practice of psychology was incomplete, in that it did not accurately take into account a person's life history and frame of reference for making personal decisions. The practice of metapsychology leads the practitioner to use the personal frame of reference, history, experience and belief system of the individual client

ReviewTheBook.com - Lauri Coates

Having outlined a general theory of metapsychology, and having analyzed the various disabilities that human beings may experience, Gerbode provides a set of techniques that can be used to assist clients. His systems of Traumatic Incident Reduction rests on duplicable procedures that can be learned; the facilitators who administer these techniques do not have to be trained physicians or psychologists.
This is a book that deserves to be widely known, studied, and applied.

Louis Gann

If you're a practicing mental health professional and really believe in what you're doing, this book could ruin your day. Metapsychology catapults the field of psychotherapy out of its "pre-paragidmatic phase", with as comprehensive and cohesive a theoretical model as the profession has ever known. Not in thirty years of clinical practice, have I found a more consistently successful approach to the understanding and alleviation of human emotional distress. I've seen it work, it's that good.

dustjacket - Robert Moore