Edited by Abe Levitsky, Ph.D., this book is based on transcripts of training workshops conducted by the late James Simkin, Ph.D., a long-time associate of Frederick Perls and a founder of the Gestalt Therapy Institute of Los Angeles.
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Jim Simkin died of leukemia in 1984, 64 years old and at the height of his powers. Jim had studied with and then co-led therapy and training groups with Frederick (Fritz) Perls, but he developed his own style, which was more methodical and less flamboyant than Perls. In the last ten years of his life he provided psychotherapy training to psychologists, psychiatrists and clinical social workers who came from all over the world to study with him in his training center on the Big Sur coast.
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This review is from: Gestalt Therapy: Mini-Lectures (Paperback)
Jim Simkin died of leukemia in 1984, 64 years old and at theheight of his powers. Jim had studied with and then co-led therapyand training groups with Fritz Perls, but he developed his own style, which was more methodical and less flamboyant than Fritz. In the last ten years of his life he provided psychotherapy training to psychologists, psychiatrists and clinical social workers who came from all over the world to study with him in his dramatic training center on the Big Sur coast. Since the essence of gestalt therapy is experience, and much of what Jim did resulted from his making use of what he observed in a patient's voice tone and subtle non-verbal behavior, it is hard to make complete sense of the therapy sessions transcripted in this book. The book probably better serves as a reminder of what he could do to those who saw Jim work in person. Still, there is good pithy material here about Jim's working concepts as a therapist, and about his brand of this "existential-phenomenological" therapy. And, aside from a few poorly made videotapes, the transcripts are the best samples we have of the work of a remarkable and dedicated therapist who lived what he taught.
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- Interviews With Brief Therapy Experts by Michael F. Hoyt on page 143
- Gestalt Counselling in Action (Counselling in Action series) by Petruska Clarkson in Back Matter
- Existential Hypnotherapy by Mark E. King; Charles M. Citrenbaum. in Back Matter
- Gestalt Counselling in Action (Counselling in Action series) by Petruska Clarkson in Back Matter
- Fritz Perls (Key Figures in Counselling and Psychotherapy series) by Petruska Clarkson in Back Matter
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