Hakomi Forum Professional Journal
2016 HAKOMI FORUM:
Special Issue on Diverse, Cross-Cultural and Underserved PopulationsISSUE 28 – 2016
Special Issue on Diverse, Cross-Cultural and Underserved Populations
Table of Contents Editorial — Many Members of One Body Greg Johanson Merleau-Ponty, Bodily Knowledge and Felt Meaning Steven L. Bindeman Complexes of the Cultural Unconscious: Trance States, Hakomi, and the Re-Creation of the Self Camillia M. Thompson Should We Tell? Living a Good life in the Shadow of Cancer Belinda Siew Luan Khong Using Hakomi to Mediate Cultural Differences Sarah Tait-Jamieson Applications of Hakomi Mindful Somatic in a Non-Profit Setting Rebecca Lincoln Hakomi and the Underserved Lavie/Shands/Ahmed/Toro/Anderson The M.E.T.A. Counseling Clinic Donna Roy Book Review: Die Wise by Steven Jenkinson Review Review by Susan Shawn Book Review: Understanding Emotion in Chinese Culture: Thinking Through Psychology by Louise Sundararajan Review by Greg Johanson Poems Carol Ladas-Gaskin
About the Hakomi Forum
The Hakomi Forum is the professional journal of the Hakomi Institute, and contains informative articles about Hakomi Therapy, its applications, and its relationship to other psychotherapeutic and healing arts modalities. The Hakomi Forum has been published since 1984.
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ISSUE 1- SUMMER 1984
Editorial: Watzlawick, Wilbur, and the Work | Greg Johanson |
Introduction to the Process | Ron Kurtz |
Being Effective Through Non-Doing | Werner Singer |
Humor and Imagination | Halko Weiss |
The Hakomi Method and Couples | Devi Records |
Intensive Family Services | Greg Johanson |
ISSUE 2- Winter 1985
Editorial: When in Doubt, Go with the Principles | Greg Johanson |
Foundations of Hakomi Therapy | Ron Kurtz |
An Overview of the Hakomi Method of Psychotherapy | Cedar Barstow |
Animal Imagery, the Chakra System, and Psychotherapy | Eligio S. Gallegos |
A Note on Hakomi Therapy and Psychodrama | Greg Johanson |
The Use of Biofeedback by Hakomi Therapists | Greg Johanson |
Use of Elements of Hakomi Therapy with Seriously Emotionally Disturbed Adolescents | Carol R. Taylor |
Total Satisfaction Massage (htm format) | Rich Ireland |
ISSUE 3 – SUMMER 1985
Editorial: Bite a Blue Apple | Greg Johanson |
The Tao of Being With | Ron Kurtz |
The Organization of Experience in Hakomi Therapy | Ron Kurtz |
Values and Empowerment | Hugh Smiley |
The Psychotherapist as Faith Agent | Greg Johanson |
Becoming a Full Human Being | Chogyam Trungpa |
Spirituality and Psychotherapy | Cedar Barstow |
Huna, Hakomi, and Spirituality | Stan Hartman |
Hakomi & the Creation Centered Spirituality of Matthew Fox – Path I: Befriending Creation | Greg Johanson |
Brief Personal Perspectives | Amina Knowlan, Reba Townsend, John Lloyd, Dyrian Ben |
Possibilities | Greg Johanson |
Emily Rose | Cedar Barstow |
ISSUE 4 – SUMMER 1986
Editorial: Taking It Home with You | Greg Johanson |
Hakomi in the Trenches | Greg Johanson |
Cancer and Psychotherapy | Ron Kurtz |
The Context for Hakomi in the Treatment of Eating Disorders | Lee Moyer |
Tending Body and Spirit: Counseling with Elders | Cedar Barstow |
Fairies and Ultimacy | Yvonne Notaro |
Hakomi and the Hunt Seat Equestrian | Cady Erickson |
ISSUE 5 – SUMMER 1987
Editorial: In Honor of Carl | Greg Johanson |
On the Uniqueness of Hakomi | Ron Kurtz |
Hakomi and Naturopathy | Mcholas Emlen |
Central and Peripheral Mechanisms in the Neurophysiology of Depression | Jerome Liss |
Hakomi and the Q-Sort Technique | Cori Taggart |
Storytelling for Hakomi Therapists | Halko Weiss |
Yoga and Hakomi: Two Friends Meet | Dyrian Benz |
Hakomi & the Creation Centered Spirituality of Matthew Fox – Path II: Befriending Darkness | Greg Johanson |
ISSUE 6 – SUMMER 1988
Editorial: A Wider Perspective | Greg Johanson |
The Healing Relationship | Ron Kurtz |
A Curious Form of Therapy: Hakomi | Greg Johanson |
Non-Invasive Methodologies of Studying Neurological Correlates of Human Mental States, in Particular those During Psychotherapy – A Review of Recent Literature | Lakshyan Schanze |
The Hakomi Method in Therapy Groups (html format) | Martin Schulmeister |
An Application of the Sensitivity Cycle to Organizational Groups | Chris Hoffman |
Managing to Practice: Supervision | David Patterson |
ISSUE 7- WINTER 1989
Editorial: Future Subjects | Greg Johanson |
Hakomi and Metanoia | Cedar Barstow |
Why Body/Mind? | Howard Cole and Meg Blanchet |
The Child State of Consciousness and the Formation of the Self | Jon Eisman |
Hakomi and Adolescents | Greg Johanson and Carol Taylor |
Family: The Next Larger Picture | Dyrian Benz |
Hakomi Therapy Supervision Verbatim | Sheela Lambert |
An Ontological Model of Development | William S. Schmidt |
ISSUE 8 – WINTER 1990
Current Perspectives on Hakomi Training and Therapy Issues | Cedar Barstow and Greg Johanson |
Transference and Countertransference in the Here-and-Now Therapies | David Feinstein |
Helping Through Touch: The Embodiment of Caring | Suzanne M. Peloquin |
Translating the Body’s Language | Pat Ogden and Anne Peters |
The Effects of Pre and Perinatal Trauma | Albert Pesso |
Laughter and Pastoral Care | Stephen Pattison |
ISSUE 9 – WINTER 1992
ISSUE 10 – AUTUMN 1994
Editorial: Getting Self Conscious | Greg Johanson |
Realizing the “Between” in Psychotherapy | James V. DeLeo |
Boundaries and Psychotherapy – Part I: Boundary Distortion and Its Consequences | Tom Whitehead |
Ethics: The Right Use of Power and Influence | Cedar Barstow |
Our Multiple Selves | Richard Schwartz |
Aspects of Quantum Psychology | Stephen Wolinsky |
Self: A Living Vibrancy | William S. Schmidt |
ISSUE 11 – Fall 1995
Editorial: Foundations Revisited | Greg Johanson |
The Origins of the Hakomi Method | Ron Kurtz |
The Emergence of the Other | Halko Weiss |
Boundaries and Psychotherapy Part II: Healing Damaged Boundaries | Tom Whitehead |
Dancing in Neverland: Hakomi Therapy from a Client’s Perspective | Megan Dall |
Transcending Duality in the Therapeutic Relationship: Working with the Unity Principle | Cynthia Jaffe |
Remembering Wholeness: A Model for Healing and Recovery | Donna Martin |
Updating the Foundation of Hakomi | Dyrian Benz |
ISSUE 12 – Summer 1996
1st U.S. Conference on Body Oriented Psychotherapy | Lee Strauss |
Using Hakomi in Couples Psychotherapy | Rob Fisher |
Creating Organizations Fit For The Human Spirit Through Hakomi | Karmen Guevara |
Evoking Essence | Dyrian Benz-Chartrand |
Hands-on Psychotherapy | Pat Ogden |
The Birth and Death of Meaning: Selective Implications of Linguistics for Psychotherapy | Greg Johanson |
ISSUE 13 – SUMMER 1999
Front Page & Glossary of Hakomi Therapy Terms | Cedar Barstow & Greg Johanson |
Training Psychotherapists in the Almost Impossible Task of Just Paying Attention | Deepesh Faucheaux & Halko Weiss |
Key Words for Unlocking Our Unconscious | Jerome Liss, M.D. |
Applying Hakomi Principles and Techniques to Mainstream Psychodynamic, Behavioral and Systemic Couples Psychotherapy | Rob Fisher, MA, MFCC & Jaci Hull, MA, CHT |
“Far Beyond Psychoanalysis”: Freud’s Repetition Compulsion | Greg Johanson |
Lightbody Consciousness in Hakomi | Wolfgang Ronnefeldt, MA |
ISSUE 14-15 – SUMMER 2005
Table of Contents Issue 14-15 | |
Hakomi Forum Issue 14-15 (55.4 MB pdf file) |
ISSUE #16-17 – SUMMER 2006
Five Recent Essays | Ron Kurtz |
Neuroscience & Psychotherapy | Marilyn Morgan |
The Use of Mindfulness in Psychotherapy | Gregory J. Johanson |
Hakomi: Strengths & Limitations: Indications & Contraindications for the Use of Hakomi with Clients with Significant Clinical Disturbances |
Uta Gunther |
From Felt-Sense to Felt-Self: Neuroaffective Touch & the Relational Matrix |
Aline LaPierre |
In Search of the Embodied Self | Gustl Marlock & Halko Weiss |
Why I Left Psychology (Almost): A Fictional Story that Might Be True |
David N. Elkin |
Shifting States of Consciousness: The Re-Creation of the Self Approach to Transformation |
Jon Eisman |
How Do I Listen? Applying Body Psychotherapy Principles & Skills in Manual & Movement Therapy |
Sol Petersen |
Modified Hakomi: Coaching Clients with IFS and Hakomi Skills |
Dave Cole |
Practice Notes | Donna Martin |
Marblehead Minuet & Of Room and Wings | Leisha Douglas |
Glossary of Hakomi Therapy Terms | Cedar Barstow & Greg Johanson |
ISSUE #18 – SUMMER 2007
Editorial: Words & Meaning | Leisha Douglas |
Quotes on “Dealing with Enemies” | Lao Tzu |
Three Recent Essays | Ron Kurtz |
The Buddha’s Influence in the Therapy Room | Belinda Siew Luan Khong |
“Sophistry or Sensitive Science?” An Interview with Martha Herbert | Casey Walker |
Self-No/Self | Robert K. Bornt |
The Lanugage of Neuroception & The Bodily Self | Aline LaPierre |
Nourish the Body, Ease the Mind, and Brighten the Spirit | Kamala Quale |
The Power of Presence in Trauma Work: An Elemental Embrace | Karuna Fluhart-Negrete |
Experiential Psychotherapy with Couples: A Guide for the Creative Pragmatist | Robert M. Fisher |
Touching the Spirit at the End of Life | Tria Thompson O’Maille & Roseann E. Kasayka |
POEMS click link on Poems to view the following: The Flowers of Kaifeng Agin (Broken) – Bari Falese When Free from Conventional Ideas – Ikue Tezuka Creek Crossing – Cathy Ann Simmons |
ISSUE #19-21 – SUMMER 2008
ISSUE #22 – SUMMER 2009
Hakomi Conference Experience | Katy Cofer |
Ron Kurtz USABP Interview | Serge Pringle |
Hakomi Principles in Relation to Systems Theory | Sid Kemp with Greg Johanson |
The Use of Mindfulness in Psychodynamic & Body Oriented Psychotherapy | Halko Weiss |
Humanistic Hakomi and it’s Interface with Non-Linear Science | Greg Johanson |
Hakomi on Campus: Teaching Loving Presence and Mindfulness at a Public University in Mexico City | Fernando Ortiz |
Language and the Ineffable Aspect of the Bodymind | Mark Repplinger |
To Be or Not to Be Transpersonal: Can Hakomi Embrace the Whole Without Embracing the Soul? | Rhonda Mattern |
Book Review: The Boy Who Was Raised As a Dog | Carol Ladas-Gaskinn & David Cole |
Poems from Bardo & Becoming | Leisha Douglass |
ISSUE #23-24 – SUMMER 2011
Table of Contents | |
Editorial: Ripples from a Life Lived Ron Kurtz (1934-2011) |
Greg Johanson |
Touch In Therapy and the Standard of Care in Psychotherapy and Counseling: Bringing Clarity to Illusive Relationships |
Ofer Zur |
The Pax Medica and Brain – Based Therapy | Lloyd Linford and John Arden |
Dialogue with Boss, Heidegger, Freud, Sartre and Buddha – On Being Human | Bindeman, Luan Khong, Churchill, Hersch, Sundararajan |
Psychotherapy, Science and Spirit: Nonlinear Systems, Hakomi Therapy, and the Tao | Greg Johanson |
Mastering Your Psychology for Success at Work |
Nina Cherry |
Ronald S. Kurtz (1934-2011): A Remembrance | Greg Johanson |
Ronald S. Kurtz: Somatic Perspectives on Psychotherapy | Pringle with Kurtz |
Tributes to Ron Kurtz (1934-2011) | The Community |
Book Review: The Emergence of Somatic Psychology and Bodymind Therapy | Greg Johanson |
Poems | Reynold Ruslan Feldman |
ISSUE 25 – WINTER 2012
Editorial: Hakomi 25th Anniversary
Working with the Capacity for Connection in Healing Developmental Trauma | Laurence Heller and Aline LaPierre |
Do We Find Organicity Even Within Psychosis? | Paris Williams |
Hakomi in Action: A Narrative | Amy S. Marco, Dawn L. McBride, Greg Johanson |
Mindfulness, Emotions, and the Organization of Experience | Gregory Johanson |
“Taking Over” Technique with Veteran Trauma Work | Gregory Johanson |
Poems from Cairns and Realization Point | Chris Hoffman |
ISSUE #26 – 2013-2014
Table of Contents | |
Lévinas and the Disruptive Face of the Other | Steven L. Bindeman |
Hakomi and the Ambiguous Nature of Research | Greg Johanson |
Lost in the Translation: “Chi” and Related Terms of Shame in the Confucian Tradition | Louise Sundararajan |
Mindfulness: A Way of Cultivating Deep Respect for Emotions | Belinda Siew Luan Khong |
The Origins Of Jewish Guilt: Psychological, Theological, and Cultural Perspectives | Simon Dein |
Attachment and Hakomi | Marilyn Morgan |
This Sacred Ground So Finely Assembled | Marilyn Morgan |
School of Hard Knocks, Indonesian Style | Cedar Barstow |
ISSUE #27 – 2014-2015
Table of Contents | |
Medard Boss’s Dialogue with Heidegger, Freud, Sartre, Buddha, and Jung: On Being Authentic |
Bindeman, Luan Khong, Churchill, Hersch, McIlwai and Sundararajan |
Perspectives On the Human Condition: Philosophy, Civilization, and Character |
Robert D. Stolorow |
Lifestyle and Mental Health | Roger Walsh |
Oppression Embodied: The Intersecting Dimensions of Trauma, Oppression, and Somatic Psychology | Rae Johnson |
Apologies That Heal | Cedar Barstow |
Poems | Carol Ladas-Gaskin |