Here, Now, Next (Gestalt Institute of Cleveland Publication) [Hardcover]

Taylor Stoehr (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: August 23, 1994 | ISBN-10: 0787900052 | ISBN-13: 978-0787900052 | Edition: 1

University of Massachusetts, Boston. Reference on the origins of Gestalt therapy from the standpoint of Paul Goodman, its chief theoretician. For psychotherapists.

Editorial Reviews

Review

"A long overdue acknowledgement of Paul Goodman's crucial place in the development of Gestalt therapy.  Taylor Stoehr is to be praised for settling many of the questions on the origins of Gestalt therapy as well as explaining much about the sources of Goodman's significant contributions."

- Isadore From

"Here is the fascinating account of Paul Goodman's quirky, brave, brilliant, and often troubled life and how he fashioned much of Gestalt therapy theory, thinking it out and living it intensely even as he wrote it."

- Malcolm Parlett, editor, British Gestalt Journal

"It was Paul Goodman's organization and presentation of Gestalt therapy that makes it not only a humane discipline of healing, but a way of living creatively in the modern age."

- Joseph Zinker, author, In Search of Good Form

"Paul Goodman demanded we acknowledge his being as well as his life actions - a standard appropriate for the moral and ethical dilemmas of today's world.  This is must reading for mental health professionals who have an active interest in politics."

- Carolyn J. Lukensmeyer

"Since Paul Goodman's death, I have entrusted myself to Taylor Stoehr as guide to Goodman the classicist, the anarchist, and the surreptitious teacher of an American generation."

- Ivan Illich, philosopher and social historian 

--This text refers to an alternate Hardcover edition.

About the Author

Taylor Stoehr, professor of English at the University of Massachusetts in Boston, is Paul Goodman's literary executor and biographer.  In addition to editing over a dozen volumes of Goodman's work, he has written five books and numerous articles on literary figures such as Dickens, Hawthorne, Lawrence, and Thoreau, as well as cultural studies of utopian communities and other "counterculture" experiments of nineteenth-century America.  --This text refers to an alternate Hardcover edition.

Product Details

• Hardcover: 352 pages
• Publisher: Jossey-Bass; 1 edition (August 23, 1994)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0787900052
• ISBN-13: 978-0787900052
• Product Dimensions: 8.3 x 5.8 x 1.4 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.2 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,809,570 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars A loving, clear-sighted appraisal, September 27, 2005

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Phil Myers (Brooklyn) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Here, Now, Next (Gestalt Institute of Cleveland Publication) (Hardcover)

In this excellent intellectual biography, Taylor Stoehr presents a loving, clear-sighted appraisal of Paul Goodman's contributions to the formulation and practice of Gestalt Therapy. With telling anecdotes from Goodman's life, and a deft handling of the psychotherapeutic concepts, Stoehr summons a vivid picture of the therapy's development.

This book is a welcome corrective to the tendency of Fritz Perls' larger-than-life persona to overshadow the contributions made by Goodman and others.

It is also a highly illuminating companion read for anyone tackling Goodman and Perls' psychological magnum opus "Gestalt Therapy".

For those looking for a capsule synopsis of Goodman's psychological work, I recommend Stoehr's pithy introduction to his edited volume of Goodman's briefer writings on psychology, "Nature Heals"

0 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A "must read" for students of Gestalt Therapy, April 2, 2000

By A Customer

This review is from: Here Now Next: Paul Goodman and the Origins of Gestalt Therapy (Gestalt Institute of Cleveland Book Series) (Hardcover)

For anyone who is a student of Gestalt Therapy this book is a must. Stoehr's work gave me a deep appreciation for the intellectual legacy of Paul Goodman.