Gestalt Therapy: A Guide to Contemporary Practice

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ISBN: 9780826104540 | 0826104541
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Copyright: 3/1/2010

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This scholarly, contemporary reference book for mental health professionals seamlessly blends the philosophical underpinnings of gestalt therapy (GT) with practical application. Providing in-depth discussions and provocative insights, Philip Brownell gets to the core of GT-its history, its theoretical constructs, and its therapeutic processes.

Foreword	p. xi
Preface	p. xvii
Acknowledgments	p. xxi
Introduction	p. xxiii
Orientation	p. 1
What Is Psychotherapy?	p. 3
The Talking Cure	p. 4
Factors Common to Diverse Forms of Psychotherapy	p. 8
Does Psychotherapy "Work"?	p. 10
Conclusion	p. 16
What is Gestalt Psychotherapy?	p. 21
Background	p. 22
Theoretical Overview	p. 35
Conclusion	p. 38
The Growth of Gestalt Therapy	p. 43
The First Cycle: Originators and Their Trainees	p. 44
Second Cycle: Trends in Gestalt Therapy's Development	p. 56
Conclusion	p. 69
How to Do Gestalt Therapy	p. 73
Deal with Personal Experience	p. 75
Awareness and Consciousness	p. 77
Intentionality	p. 82
Phenomenological Method in Psychotherapy	p. 89
Conclusion	p. 93
Work the Therapeutic Relationship	p. 97
Alterity	p. 98
Contact	p. 102
Dialogue	p. 105
Relationship	p. 1113
Conclusion	p. 114
Use the Context of Life	p. 119
The Concept of Field	p. 120
The Hermeneutics of Field	p. 128
Field-Relative Perspectives	p. 136
Field-Theoretical Psychotherapeutic Strategies	p. 141
Conclusion	p. 144
Move to Action	p. 149
Behavior, Enactment, and Experience	p. 150
Action as Discourse	p. 153
Experiment	p. 154
Experimental Options	p. 158
Conclusion	p. 165
Practice a Unified Approach	p. 167
The Unity of Praxis	p. 169
The Concept of a Unified Approach	p. 172
Common Factors	p. 174
Conclusion	p. 181
Specific Clinical Issues	p. 187
Assessment in Gestalt Therapy	p. 189
Preliminary Considerations	p. 190
Assessment as Diagnosis	p. 198
Assessment as Psychological Testing	p. 199
Assessment as Gestalt Therapy "Analysis"	p. 203
Assessment as Therapeutic Process	p. 204
A Suggested Method of Assessment and Diagnosis	p. 206
Conclusion	p. 209
Treatment Planning and Case Management in Gestalt Therapy	p. 213
Treatment Planning	p. 213
Case Management	p. 222
Conclusion	p. 225
Training and Certification	p. 229
Training, Certification, and Professional Development in Gestalt Therapy	p. 231
Training	p. 232
Certification	p. 236
Continuing Education	p. 237
Gestalt Training Organizations	p. 237
Professional Affiliations and Gestalt Communities	p. 242
Conclusion	p. 243
Epilogue	p. 247
Index	p. 249
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