Acclaimed by Psychology Today as one of the best books of 1977, this study explores the relationship between therapist and patient, and explains the roots, methods, and aims of Gestalt therapy. Line drawings.
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Acclaimed by Psychology Today as one of the best books of 1977, this study explores the relationship between therapist and patient, and explains the roots, methods, and aims of Gestalt therapy. Line drawings.
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This is what gestalt is all about.....,
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I feel gestalt therapy is different from other therapies in many ways. The emphasis on personal freedom, the need for creative expression, the awareness of body sensations and movements, change as a form of growth, staying in the here and now, and most importantly the experiencing of oneself in the way they want to be experienced.
A gestalt therapist takes risks. He expresses the fullest of love for the patient, yet will make the client stand, show the client that he can stand and could always stand. It provokes the client to be aware of what they run from yet gives the client the ultimate decision whether they continue to run. This is all done through an experiment which can be as simple as making a client exaggerate a facial expression to something as complex as making the client get up and behave as the person they fear to be, yet want to be. Gestalt therapy focuses heavily on the clients fantasy's and how the clients are often not even aware of these fantasys. A client in a group may say "John doesn't like me" yet the therapist will say "That is your fantasy, John did not say that, look at John and tell me what you see in his face." This would be a form of a simple experiment to make the client more aware. This book shows the progression of such experiments which reiterates their importance in the here and now. This book contains ten chapters that really explain what gestalt therapy is and how it is applied. It talks about therapy as art rather than science, common mistakes therapists make, running groups etc. The book also has transcripts to illustrate key points to help the reader be aware of what is being done. There is no doubt, if one is interested in gestalt therapy, this is the first book they need to read in order to better understand what gestalt therapy is.
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Classic,
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If you are interested in Gestalt therapy, this is a classic by one of the best known proponents of the therapy.
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Creative process in Gestalt therapy,
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I love this book it is worth wile having it on your shelf. It is a book you always can find something new in regardless of how many times you have red it before. It is practical and logical, with a lot of good examples.
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Creativity is a celebration of one's grandeur, one's sense of making anything possible. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
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New York, Aunt Paula, Don Juan, Dorothy Church, Gestalt Institute of Cleveland, Houghton Mifflin, American Psychologist, Carl Rogers, Defense Counsel, Fritz Perls, Process Conception of Psychotherapy, Abraham Maslow, Collier Books, Julian Press, Mentor Books, Psychology of Being, San Francisco New!
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Creativity is a celebration of one's grandeur, one's sense of making anything possible. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
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New York, Aunt Paula, Don Juan, Dorothy Church, Gestalt Institute of Cleveland, Houghton Mifflin, American Psychologist, Carl Rogers, Defense Counsel, Fritz Perls, Process Conception of Psychotherapy, Abraham Maslow, Collier Books, Julian Press, Mentor Books, Psychology of Being, San Francisco New!
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- Gestalt Therapy by M.D., Ph.D. Frederick S. Perls on 7 pages
- On Becoming a Person: A Therapist's View of Psychotherapy by Carl Rogers on 4 pages
- The Act of Creation (Arkana) by Arthur Koestler on page 23, page 75, and Back Matter
- The Betrayal of the Body by Alexander Lowen on page 26, page 103, and Back Matter
- Ten Rungs by Martin Buber on page 6, page 8, and Back Matter
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- Gestalt Therapy: History, Theory, and Practice by Ansel L. Woldt in Front Matter, page 16, and page 202
- Fritz Perls (Key Figures in Counselling and Psychotherapy series) by Petruska Clarkson in Front Matter, page 164, and Back Matter
- Gender and Reading: Essays on Readers, Texts and Contexts by Elizabeth A. Flynn on page 67, and page 79
- Beyond the Hot Seat: Gestalt Approaches to Group by Bud Feder in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Poetry Therapy: Theory and Practice by Nicholas Mazza on page 11, and Back Matter
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