Gestalt Therapy: Advances in Theory and

The Gestalt approach is based on the philosophy that the human being is born with the healthy ability to regulate needs and wants in relationship with the environment in which she/he lives. Heightening of personal awareness and exploration of needs is enabled by the therapist who actively engages in supporting and assisting the therapeutic journey of the client. Gestalt Therapy: Advances in Theory and Practiceis a collaboration of some of the best thinkers in the Gestalt therapy approach. It offers a summary of recent advances in theory and practice, and novel ideas for future development. Each chapter focuses on a different element of the Gestalt approach and, with contributors from around the world, each offers a different perspective of its ongoing evolution in relation to politics, religion and philosophy. Incorporating ideas about community, field theory, family and couple therapy, politics and spirituality, this book will be of interest not only to Gestalt therapists but also to non-Gestalt practitioners, counsellors, psychologists, psychiatrists and other mental health professionals. Counselling, behavioural science and psychotherapy students will also find this a valuable contribution to their learning.

Talia Bar-Yoseph Levine BA, MA (Hons), D Psych is a co-founder of the Jerusalem Gestalt Institute; past head of the MSc programme in Gestalt psychotherapy at Metanoia Institute, London; registered clinical psychologist since 1981. Talia is the managing director of Choice Psychotherapy and Management Consultancy Ltd, UK, and a business consultant in Israel, Europe, USA and Asia and an international trainer. She has published numerous journal essays and is a member of the IPA (Israeli Psychological Association).

List of contributors	p. ix
Preface	p. xiii
Acknowledgements	p. xv
Introduction	p. xvii
Gestalt in the new age	p. 1
Gestalt therapy and theory	p. 13
Flexibility in theory formation: point and counterpoint	p. 15
Reconsidering holism in gestalt therapy: a bridge too far?	p. 27
The interactive field: Gestalt therapy as an embodied relational dialogue	p. 39
Personality: co-creating a dynamic symphony	p. 49
Critiquing projection: supporting dialogue in a post-Cartesian world	p. 59
Sensing animals/knowing persons: a challenge to some basic ideas in gestalt therapy	p. 71
Mind and matter: the implications of neuroscience research for Gestalt psychotherapy	p. 83
Spirituality in gestalt therapy	p. 93
Aspects of Gestalt practice	p. 105
Creating an embodied, authentic self: integrating mindfulness with psychotherapy when working with trauma	p. 107
The four relationships of Gestalt therapy couples work	p. 123
Gestalt family therapy: a field perspective	p. 137
A neo-Lewinian perspective on gestalt group facilitation	p. 149
Epilogue	p. 161
Awareness instead of rules: Gestalt ethics	p. 163
Culture change: conversations concerning political/religious differences	p. 175
Index	p. 185
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