Contact Info:
Dorset BH16 6BX UNITED KINGDOM
Phone: 44 (0) 12 0250 4169
Email: ltodres@bournemouth.ac.uk
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Les Todres, PhDFocusing-Oriented Psychotherapist
Focusing Trainer
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Focusing-Oriented Psychotherapist (FOT) Information:
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Clinical Training: Chartered Psychologist
Licensed By: British Psychological Society
FOT Specialty Areas: Adults
Other Specialty Areas: Working with illness, intercultural work, existential issues, supervision
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Focusing Trainer Information:
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- I offer Focusing training in individual sessions.
- I offer Focusing training in individual phone sessions.
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Focusing Trainer Specialty Areas: Spirituality/Meditation, College students and/or their teachers
Other Focusing Trainer Specialty Areas: adults,
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Personal Statement about Training Program:
I am a clinical psychologist who initially trained as an existential psychotherapist in the mid 1970's. Since training as a Focusing Practitioner with Barbara McGavin, Focusing philosophy and practice has become the foundation of my psychotherapeutic work. I also teach psychotherapy and qualitative research within a university context. I am particularly interested in the relationship between focusing and spiritual embodiment.
A Sample of my Work:
The wound that connects: Narcissism and the creation of soulful space.
http://www.ipjp.org/august2004/todresv4e1.pdf
'The body knows intimately the taste of unfinishedness--of longing. And the body recognises the taste of wholeness, of being at one, of being continuous with something much greater; a moving whole that is already adventuring.'
My Publications:
Selected publications (for a full list see: http://www.bournemouth.ac.uk/ihcs/lestodrespublications.html)
Journal Articles:
Todres, L., (1990). The Rhythm of Psychotherapeutic Attention: A Training Model Journal of Phenomenological Psychology, 21, 32-45.
Todres, L., (1992). The Virtue of Tension: Conflict Resolution and the Transcendent Function. Mantis, 4(3). 6-10.
Todres, L., (1993). Psychological and Spiritual Freedoms: Reflections Inspired by Heidegger. Human Studies, 16: 255-266,
Todres, L. (1999) The bodily complexity of truth-telling in qualitative research: some implications of Gendlin's philosophy. Humanistic Psychologist, 23(3), 283-300.
Todres, L. (2000) Embracing Ambiguity: Transpersonal Development and the Phenomenological Tradition. Religion and Health, 39(3), 227-237.
Todres, L. (2002) Globalisation and the Complexity of Self: the relevance of psychotherapy. Existential Analysis, 13(1), 98-105.
Todres, L. (2002) Humanising Forces: Phenomenology in Science; Psychotherapy in Technological Culture. Indo-Pacific Journal of Phenomenology, 3, 1-16.
Todres, L (2004). The meaning of understanding and the open body: some implications for Qualitative Research. Existential Analysis, 15(1), 38-54.
Todres, L. (2004) The Wound that Connects: A Consideration of 'Narcissism' and the Creation of Soulful Space. The Indo-Pacific Journal of Phenomenology, 4(1), 1-12, Online Journal available from: http://www.ipjp.org
Book chapters:
Todres, L., (1991). The Primacy of phenomenological process and sequence in Psychotherapy: A Case Study. In R van Vuuren, (Ed) Dialogue Beyond Polemics. Pretoria: Human Science Research Council Publishers, 95-106.
Todres, L. (1999) How Does Liberating Self-Insight Become Tacit Understanding?: A Phenomenological Enquiry. In G. Watson, S. Batchelor, & G. Claxton (Ed). The Psychology of Awakening. Rider. 177-186.
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