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THE FOLIO: Volume 22, Number 1, 2010
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VOLUME 22, NUMBER 1, 2010
AGING...Focusing Through the Transitions of Later Life
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
iii
PUBLISHER’S PAGE
iv
LETTER FROM THE EDITORS
vii
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
PART 1: PERSONAL STORIES
3
THE ESSENCE OF BEING WITH WHAT IS: Thirty-Three Years with Focusing
Reva Bernstein (in conversation with Ann Weiser Cornell)
8
IT NEEDS TO MAKE SENSE
Bebe Simon (in conversation with Rob Foxcroft)
21
MY JOURNEY WITH FOCUSING: A Developmental Process
Jill Drummond
26
SOME THOUGHTS ABOUT FOCUSING AND AGING: Losses and Gains
Joan Lavender, Psy.D.
36
FOCUSING AND AGING: Accompanying a Woman’s Aging Journey
Patricia Manessy, NHC
40
GROWING UP WITH FELT SENSING AND STAYING YOUNG INTO AGING
WITH FOCUSING
Christel Kraft, M.Ed.
51
FOCUSING HAPPIER
Carol Belin
56
FOCUSING ADVENTURES IN AGING: Alone — Crisis and
Opportunity
Hadley Fisk, LICSW
60
FOCUSING AND AGING
Erna de Bruijn
63
THE GOLDEN YEARS
Kevin McEvenue (Focusing with Karen Whalen)
74
FOCUSING, LIFE COACHING AND AGEISM
Judy Robbins, Psy.D.
84
AGING’S MUSIC: Aging and Co-Aging in a Focusing Marriage
Jane and Dave Young, LCSW
PART 2: INSIGHTS: TRANSFORMATIONS USING FOCUSING WITH OTHERS
105
THE BOOK OF LIFE: The Final Chapter
Mary McGuire, CSJ, Psy.D.
111
ATTUNING TO NATURAL PROCESS ACTION STEPS:
How does one fi nd the natural action, the unforced next
step?
(Maybe with a Little Wind from Your Fingertips!)
Katarina Halm
130
AN INTEGRATED APPROACH TO PROCESSING AGING AND PAIN
Elfie Hinterkopf, Ph.D.
139
FOCUSING . . . AND HE DIDN’T EVEN KNOW IT . . .
Bala Jaison, Ph.D.
PART 3: AGING, CASES, AND RESEARCH
147
EXCERPTS FROM THE INTRODUCTION TO “REDISCOVERING THE
LOST BODY-CONNECTION WITHIN CHRISTIAN SPIRITUALITY”
Edwin M. McMahon, Ph.D. and Peter A. Campbell, Ph.D.
155
ONE MAN’S LIFE JOURNEY: Like the Ebbs and Flows of the
Sea
Atsmaout Perlstein, Ph.D.
165
A TAE-BASED QUALITATIVE STUDY OF SUBJECTIVE WELL-BEING
FOR AGED JAPANESE MEN
Yoshika Yamaguchi, Satoko Tokumaru