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WRITTEN BY LYNN PRESTON

Focusing-Oriented

• Klagsbrun, J., Preston, L. Help for the Helpers.
• Preston, L. The Edge of Awareness: Gendlin’s Contribution to Explorations of the Implicit.
• Preston, L. Everything Is a Problem for the Big Blue Sea on the Big Green Couch.
• Preston, L. Two Interwoven Miracles: The Relational Dimension of Focusing Oriented Psychotherapy
• Preston, L. The Relational Heart of Focusing-Oriented Psychotherapy
• Preston, L. Improvisation Provides a Window into Implicit Processes
• Preston, L. The Feeling Of Knowing: Post Post Modernism

Psychoanalytic

• Preston, L., (1997). Expressive Relating: The Intentional Use of the Analyst’s Subjectivity.
• Preston, L., Shumsky, E. (1998). Chapter 11 - The Development of the Dyad: A Bidirectional Revisioning of Some Self Psychological Concepts. Progress in Self Psychology, 16:67-84
• Preston, L. and Shumsky, E. (2000). Chapter 4 - From an Empathic Stance to an Empathic Dance. Progress in Self Psychology.
• Preston, L., Shumsky, E. (2004). Who Tore the Web?: Thoughts on Psychoanalytic Authority and Response-ability.
• Preston, L., Shumsky, E. (2013) Toward An Integrated Sensibility: Conversing Across Theoretical Boundaries.
• Preston, L., Shumsky, E. (2015). The New Us: The Developing Therapeutic System .Presentation for the Association For Psychoanalytic Self Psychology.
• Preston, L., Shumsky, E. (2016). The Ever-Emerging New Us: The Developing Therapeutic System. Int. J. Psychoanal. Self Psychol., 11:169-182.

RECOMMENDED ESSENTIAL ARTICLES

Focusing-Oriented

• Awe and the Celebration of Life's Mystery
• Friedman, Neil (1995). Experiential Listening
• Gendlin, Eugene (1966). Existentialism And Experiential Psychotherapy
• Gendlin, Eugene (1968). Experiential Response
• Gendlin, Eugene. Fitting In, Pouring Out, and Relating
• Ikemi, A. (2014). A Theory of Focusing-Oriented Psychotherapy
• Ikemi, A. (2013). You Can Inspire Me To Live Further...
• Klagsbrun, J. (2014). River of Knowing
• Lavender, J. One Therapist's Travelogue
• Lavender,  J. Experiential Theory- Psychotherapy’s Well-Kept Secret
• Madison, G. Exhilarating Pessimism
• Madison, G. Evocative Supervision
• Rogers, C. (1995). A Process Conception Of Psychotherapy

Relational and Self Psychological

• Kohut, Heinz (1979). “Two Analyses of Mr. Z.”
• Ornstein, P.and A. (1985). “Clinical Understanding and Explaining: The Empathic Vantage Point.” In Goldberg, A. (ed.) Progress in Self Psychology, Vol. 1. NY: Guilford Press, pp. 43-61.
• Whitz, M.T. & Weiner, M.B. (1986). “An Overview of Basic Self Psychology Concepts,” in The Theory & Practice of Self Psychology, New York: Brunner Mazel, pp. 3-18.
• Atwood, G.E., Stolorow, R.D. and Trop, J.L. (1989). “Impasses in Psychoanalytic Therapy—A Royal Road,” in Contemp. Psychoanal., 25:554-573.
• Bacal, H. A. (1995). “The Essence of Kohut’s Work and the Progress of Self Psychology,” in Psychoanalytic Dialogues, Vol. 5, 3: 353-355, New Jersey: The Analytic Press.
• Black, J. Margaret & Mitchell, A. Stephen (1995). Freud and Beyond, New York: Basic Books, pp. 149-165.
• Orange, Donna (1995). “Emotional Availability,” in Emotional Understanding: Studies in Psychoanalyst Epistemology, New Jersey: The Analytic Press, pp. 125-140.
• Bacal, H. (1998) “Optimal Responsiveness and The Specificity of Self Object Experience.” Optimal Responsiveness; How Therapists Heal Their Patients. NJ: Jason Aronson, (Ch. 7) pp. 141-170.
• Jacobs, Lynne (1998). “Longings for the Therapist-as-Subject: Mutual Affective Influence in the Emergence and Resolution of a Suicidal Crisis,” in Contemporary Psychotherapy Review, 1998.
• Haglund, Pamela & Buirski, Peter (2001). “The Centrality of Relationship,” in Making Sense Together, Aronson, pp. 75-99.
• Fosshage, J. L. (2000). “Fundamental Pathways to Analytic Change: Illumination of Old and Creation of New Relational Experience.”  Presented at NYC APSP
• DeYoung, Patricia A. (2003). “The Wonderfully Good Part of Relational Therapy,” in Relational Psychotherapy: A Primer, New York and Hove: Brunner-Routledge, pp. 163-196.
• DeYoung, Patricia A. (2003). “The Terribly Hard Part of Relational Psychotherapy,” in Relational Psychotherapy: A Primer, New York and Hove: Brunner-Routledge, pp. 133-161.
• Lessem, Peter A. (2005). “Empathy,” in Self Psychology, Oxford: Rowman and Littlefield Publishers, Inc., pp. 63-68.
• 28th Annual Conference on the Psychology of the Self - Baltimore, Maryland, October 20-23, 2005 – Paper Session “Discussion of Paper by Judy Teicholz: Qualities of Engagement and the Analyst’s Theory”
• Nebbiosi Ph.D. (2006). "The Prince of the Moment: Diana’s Case”
• Teicholz, Judith Guss (2006). “Qualities of Engagement and the Analyst’s Theory” in International Journal of Psychoanalytic Self Psychology, Vol 1,1, pp 47-77. 
• Orange, Donna (2007). Kohut Memorial Lecture
• Weisel-Barth, J. (2012). “The Case of Emily: Analyst Dissociation From a Systems Perspective,” in Int. J. Psychoanal. Self Psychol., 7:508-518.
• Geist, R.A., Ed.D. (2013). “How the Empathic Process Heals: A Microprocess Perspective,” Int. J. Psychoanal. Self Psychol., 8:265-281.

Note: Most of the Relational And Self Psychological articles are not available on my website, however you can download a PDF of this list to further research the sources.