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Skills in Gestalt Counselling & Psychotherapy (Skills in Counselling & Psychotherapy Series)

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If Gestalt therapy is for you something hard to understand (mainly because they didn't explain it all at your university), this book is for you. I had a course in Gestalt therapy for a year during my post-graduate studies in clinical psychology and I must admit I was able to FINALLY understand a lot of the concepts I learned there without really knowing what was my teacher talking about. The books offers lots of exercises for you to do so that you can actually perceive, with all your senses, what it is all about. The writers have also discussed a lot of techniques and skills for you to use with your clients. It was an eye opener for me as before I had thought that "bashing the cushion" and "two chairs" were basically the available "tangible" interventions.

The books is very ellegantly written and I only wish I had had it a few years ago... Highly recommended.

I didn't blink at paying $70+ for a textbook in grad school. Now that I'm out and STILL paying student loans, this was a leap of faith - and it didn't come near to university bookstore prices! However, it was worth the cost.

Excellent chapters on the following topics:
Phenomenology and Field Theory; Establishing the Therapeutic Relationship; Treatment Considerations; Experimenting; Unfinished Business; Transference and Counter-Transference; Body Process and Regression. Two chapters are especially helpful: Practice Issues addresses time-limited counseling, group work, dream work, and crisis interventions. Multicultural issues and spirituality (not to be confused with religious/pastoral counseling issues) was addressed in a chapter titled The Wider Field.

Excellent book and highly recommended.