Gestalt!
ISSN 1091-1766
Volume 1; Number 1
1997
Published by
Gestalt Global Corporation and the Gestalt Training Institute of Bermuda
Handbook for Theory, Research, and Practice in Gestalt Therapy
(click link to see inside)
Philip Brownell, Editor
Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Many books have been written about gestalt therapy. Not many have been written on the relationship between gestalt therapy and psychotherapy research. The Handbook for Theory, Research, and Practice in Gestalt Therapy is a needed bridge between these two concerns, and a timely addition to scholarly literature on gestalt therapy itself. In 2007 an international team of experienced gestalt therapists devoted themselves to create this book, and they have collaborated with one another to produce a challenging and enriching addition to the literature relevant to gestalt therapy.
"I recommend this book to anyone who is serious about practicing his or her craft better by supporting it with a broader base, one that demonstrates that merging existential phenomenology with phenomenological behaviorism can produce verifiable, replicable results for what is essentially an idiographic pursuit." – Edwin C. Nevis, Ph.D.
"I applaud Dr. Brownell's thoughtful perspectives on expanding gestalt therapy's dimensions. By his focus on the role of research he is creating the third leg of a tripod composed of thoery, practice and research, promising increased balance and support for gestalt therapy's procedural positions." – Erving Polster, Ph.D.
In This Issue:
Morgan Goodlander
ABSTRACT
In this first isue of Gestalt! Morgan Goodlander describes the mission and vision that was behind the creation of an online journal for the field of gestalt therapy.
Validating Gestalt: An Interview with Researcher, Psychotherapist and Writer, Leslie Greenberg
Leslie Greenberg and Philip Brownell
ABSTRACT
This ranging interview covers the areas of how Leslie Greenberg came to be doing what he has been doing, his training in gestalt therapy, his views on gestalt therapy and his perspective on research into psychotherapy outcomes.
Paradoxical Sociometry: An Attempt to Integrate Gestalt and Group Dynamic Approaches
Elena R. Kaliteyevskaya
ABSTRACT
The technique of paradoxical sociometry (PSM) elaborated by the author is based on work with polarities in a concrete group dynamic context and addresses two levels of therapeutic process: field level and system level. PSM is used in the situations where the hardened personality function of separate participants and the group as a whole lead to the decrease of energy in the group combined with the avoidance of clearing up intragroup relationships, emergence of manifold projections, and thrusting roles. PSM allows members to clear out the "figure" of the group as a whole and to release the energy bound with it. PSM is directed at shaking and splitting rigid self concepts, experienced in terms of roles and determined by external evaluations, and at the reintegration of self on the basis of members' autonomous ego that creates in the group a new value foundation for the dialogue "I-Thou".
Hans-Juergen Walter
ABSTRACT
This article explores the view that there is no reason for gestalt theorists to distance themselves from cognitive behaviour therapy. It can play its part in making more precise the rational and reasonable strategies of gestalt theoretical psychotherapy. And at the same time gestalt theory can offer cognitive behaviour therapy a wider framework in the sense of a more comprehensive view of man freed of disastrous limitations. This article is from the perspective of Gestalt Theoretical Psychotherapy, the application of gestalt psychology to psychotherapy and distinguished from gestalt therapy that was developed by Frederick and Laura Perls, Paul Goodman, and Isadore From.
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AAGT's 10th Biennial Conference
for
Gestalt Therapy
Philadelphia, PA, USA
June 3-6, 2010
Cathy Gray and Burt Lazarin,
Co-Conveners
See the conference website for a growing list of details concerning the pre-conference and general conference program.
Gstalt-L, An email discussion group devoted to Gestalt therapy and the community of its practitioners
GestaltResearch, a website describing research issues related to the study of gestalt therapy; it is also related to the social networking site for research oriented people interested in applications of gestalt therapy found at www.gestaltresearch.nin.com
Gestalt Bookmarks, a place to begin researching the field of contemporary Gestalt therapy on the world wide web
Gestalt!, ejournal of Gestalt therapy and the field of Gestalt practitioners