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Empty Chair Technique

The "Empty Chair Technique" is a projective psychotherapeutic method within Gestalt counseling in which a client verbalizes thoughts and feelings toward an absent person or aspect of the self symbolized by an empty chair, facilitating emotional awareness, dialogue, and integration through imagined interpersonal exchange.

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Citations

34

Authors

13

Institutions

Publications per year

2017–2026

2

Variants

Empty Chair Work

Parents

Publications

10

Resolving "unfinished business": Efficacy of experiential therapy using empty-chair dialogue.

Sandra C. Paivio, Leslie S. Greenberg · Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology · 1995 · 167 citations

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Resolving "unfinished business": Efficacy of experiential therapy using empty-chair dialogue.

Sandra C. Paivio, Leslie S. Greenberg · Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology · 1995 · 147 citations

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Relating therapy for people who hear voices: A case series

Mark Hayward, Jo Overton, Theresa Dorey et al. · Clinical Psychology & Psychotherapy · 2009 · 97 citations

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Applying an Empty-Chair Monologue Paradigm to Examine Unresolved Grief

Nigel P. Field, Mardi J. Horowitz · Psychiatry · 1998 · 44 citations

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Trial-based psychotherapy and the efficacy of trial-based thought record in changing unhelpful core beliefs and reducing self-criticism

Irismar Reis de Oliveira, Curt Hemmany, Vania Bitencourt Powell et al. · CNS Spectrums · 2012 · 31 citations

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Authors

34

  1. SC
    Sandra C. Paivio

    University of Windsor, Canada

    2 publications · 314 citations

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  2. LS
    Leslie S. Greenberg

    York University, Canada

    2 publications · 314 citations

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  3. ML
    Michella Lopes Velasquez

    Universidade Federal da Bahia, Brazil

    2 publications · 47 citations

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  4. IR
    Irismar Reis de Oliveira

    Universidade Federal da Bahia, Brazil

    2 publications · 47 citations

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  5. ÉP
    Érica Panzani Duran

    Universidade Federal da Bahia, Brazil

    2 publications · 47 citations

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Institutions

13

  1. Universidade Federal da Bahia

    Salvador, Brazil

    2 h-index

    7 publications

    172 citations

  2. Palo Alto University

    Palo Alto, United States

    1 h-index

    1 publications

    44 citations

  3. University of Saskatchewan

    Saskatoon, Canada

    1 h-index

    1 publications

    147 citations

  4. University of Southampton

    Southampton, United Kingdom

    1 h-index

    2 publications

    194 citations

  5. PsyQ

    The Hague, Netherlands

    1 h-index

    1 publications

    17 citations

  6. University of Surrey

    Guildford, United Kingdom

    1 h-index

    1 publications

    97 citations

  7. University of Padua

    Padua, Italy

    1 h-index

    4 publications

    88 citations

  8. Instituto Paulo Freire

    São Paulo, Brazil

    1 h-index

    2 publications

    32 citations

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Venues

  1. Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology

    2 publications · 314 citations

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  2. Psychiatry

    1 publications · 44 citations

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  3. Clinical Psychology & Psychotherapy

    1 publications · 97 citations

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  5. Archives of Clinical Psychiatry (São Paulo)

    1 publications · 16 citations

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