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Lois Brien is Dean, School of Psychology and Human Behavior, National University, San Diego. She is also in private practice and is a member of the Institute for the Study and Practice of Gestalt Therapy, San Diego. A frequent contributor of chapters on Gestalt therapy, she co-authored a chapter in the now classic, Gestalt Therapy Now. More recently, she co-edited a chapter for Psychotherapists' Casebook.
Louis Garzetta is a clinical psychologist in private practice in Fort Myers, Florida. He completed the training program of The Gestalt Institute of Central Florida. Previously he received extensive training in group behavior from National Training Laboratories (NTL). Presently he is President of Florida Group Psychotherapy Society and is active in the American Group Psychotherapy Association.
Robert Harman is Director of the Counseling and Testing Center, University of Central Florida, Orlando. A Diplomate in Counseling Psychology from the American Board of Professional Psychology, he is the founder of The Gestalt Institute of Central Florida and runs an active training program. He has authored one book about Gestalt therapy and a chapter on Gestalt group therapy for the book, Six Group Therapies. He has written more than 30 journal articles about Gestalt therapy and presented programs and workshops for numerous state and national professional associations.
Erving Polster is Co-Director of the Gestalt Training Center, San Diego and Associate Clinical Professor in the Department of Psychiatry, School of Medicine, at the University of California, San Diego. Dr. Polster has written numerous articles on Gestalt therapy and is the co-author of Gestalt Therapy Integrated (Vintage) with his wife, Miriam Polster. His most recent publication is Every Person's Life Is Worth a Novel (W. W. Norton).
Miriam Polster, a veteran teacher of Gestalt therapy, has trained Gestalt therapists in the United States and abroad. She is an Assistant Clinical Professor in the Department of Psychiatry at the University of California, San Diego and co-director of the Gestalt Training Center, San Diego. Dr. Polster is the co-author of Gestalt Therapy Integrated (Vintage) with her husband Erv and is presently completing a book entitled Eve's Daughters: The Forbidden Heroism of Women to be published by Jeremy Tarcher in 1990.
Robert Resnick is in private practice in Santa Monica and is active in the training program of the Gestalt Therapy Institute of Los Angeles. His interest in working with couples has resulted in his being a co-founder of the Couples Therapy and Training Center. He was the keynote speaker at the annual Gestalt Conference in 1982. His article, "Chicken Soup is Poison," is considered a classic in Gestalt therapy literature.
Edward Smith is in full-time independent practice, specializing in adult psychotherapy, psychotherapy training, and case consultation. He holds an Adjunct Professorship in Clinical Psychology at Georgia State University. He is a Fellow of the American Psychological Association and a member of the American Academy of Psychotherapists, the Association for Humanistic Psychology, and the Southeastern and the Georgia Psychological Associations. He has published poetry, more than 40 professional articles, several book chapters, edited The Growing Edge of Gestalt Therapy (1976) and Gestalt Voices (in press), and written The Body in Psychotherapy (1985) and Sexual Aliveness (1987). He has served on the editorial boards of Voices and Pilgrimage. His professional interests focus on developing his style of therapy which integrates the Gestalt approach, Reichian and Neo-Reichian work, and other body-oriented growth methods, within the context of personal relationship.
Gary Yontef is in private practice in Santa Monica and is past-president and head of the training program at the Gestalt Therapy Institute of Los Angeles. A frequent contributor of articles and chapters about Gestalt therapy, he published A Review of the Practice of Gestalt Therapy. More recently, he revised the Gestalt therapy chapter in Corsini's (1989), Current Psychotherapies. His varied interests include, among other things, Gestalt therapy training and our theoretical inheritance from Gestalt psychology.
Joseph Zinker is in private practice in Cleveland and has been involved as part of the professional staff of the Gestalt Institute of Cleveland since 1958. He was the keynote speaker at the Gestalt conference in 1986. His widely acclaimed book, Creative Process in Gestalt Therapy, was published in 1977. He was selected to present a workshop on Gestalt Therapy With Couples at the annual meeting of the American Academy of Psychotherapists in 1988. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
