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Feeling therapy as described by the authors of this book is both a therapeutic approach to resolving psychological problems and a way of life. The aim of feeling therapy is to achieve a balanced feeling state by living from “complete” feelings. A “complete” or “integral” feeling consists of a matching of sensations, meanings, and expression. Transformation, i.e., change, can only take place when a person shifts from not living from his feelings to living on the basis of what he feels inside. Insanity, which is seen as a normal condition of life for most people, can only be countered by living from feelings. Sanity can only be maintained by living in a community of others who are similarly living from feelings. Therapists do not “do therapy,” they “are” the therapy. Though there are therapeutic techniques, it is the contact with a feeling therapist, the response of a person who is in touch with his feelings, that helps the patient realize his own feelings. In brief, these are the premises on which feeling therapy is based.
Because the approach is so different from psychoanalysis or other