Response of Philip Brownell to Schema Therapy

Welcome All Who Are Interested in Presenting,

We are excited for the opportunity to meet in another lovely city in the world and to gather in a venue that offers boundless resources for all our activities. We hope to see old friends and make new ones, find ourselves challenged and intrigued by developing trends in praxis, and have time to play creatively with one another.

This is a general orientation page to our process for (1) extending calls for proposals, (2) giving instructions and (3) providing forms for submitting your proposals.

We offer two opportunities to potential presenters: pre-conference workshop / marathon proposals and conference presentation proposals. Both kinds of proposals will be blind peer reviewed by the same Peer Review Committee. Therefore, it is important that you make clear, when sending your proposal, which kind of proposal you are sending. That will require that you also pay attention to filling out the proper forms and using the proper cover letters for each. You can find these at the following links:

We encourage those who think they might like to offer both pre-conference and conference proposals to do so, but the deadline for all proposals is the same.

DEADLINE FOR SUMBITTING PROPOSALS
July 15 , 2009

The cover letter and proposal form in each case for pre-conference and conference can be copied from the web page and pasted into a word processor or email document of your choice, OR you can download MS Word versions of the cover letters and forms, OR you can send an email requesting an email version of the cover letter and form of your choosing.

Please proceed by clicking on the links to the left (pre-conference and/or conference) that pertain to your interest.

Thank you.

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.