Editorial: Welcome to the New Gestalt!

By

Dan Bloom

Editorial | Gaffney | Kim | Robine | Greenberg | Philippson | Articles of Interest

Gestalt!
Volume 11; Number 1
Winter, 2011
Published by
The Association for the Advancement of Gestalt Therapy

Edited by

Charles Bowman, MS

Dan Bloom, J.D.; LCSW

Philip Brownell, M.Div.; Psy.D.

A Short Welcome from the Editors:

What you see before you is not the premier issue of Gestalt!, of course, but our first issue as a publication of AAGT, the Association for the Advancement of Gestalt Therapy, an international community. As such, we the co-editors, welcome you our online readers into our somewhat reconceived framework.

It will be immediately clear that the excellence of Gestalt! as an important psychotherapy journal will continue. This issue bears witness to that. Our international authors reflect some of the freshest and most innovative thinking in gestalt therapy.

This journal joins AAGT’s mission to “advance” gestalt therapy. We will publish peer reviewed articles, opinion pieces, support new writers, and contain news of interest to the international gestalt therapy community.

We three editors have been close colleagues at AAGT. The benefit of 3 editors is that the editorial perspectives of this journal are likely to be fluid. We have different “voices” and you will likely be able to hear their different sounds. Yet we share a commitment to continue Gestalt!’s professional quality and to keep this journal lively and interesting.

Dan Bloom
January, 2011

Letters to the Editors:

Dear Charlie,
Greetings from Korea.

I have some News for you that I want to post in the Gestalt!.

We have organized the Korean Gestalt Therapy Association and celebrated its inaugural meeting on October 30, 2010 at Sungshin Women's University in Seoul Korea, where 246 people participated.
Jungkyu Kim, professor of clinical psychology at Sungshin Women's University was elected as the first president of the organization.

The Korean Gestalt Therapy Association will regularly publish its official journal "The Korean Journal of Gestalt Therapy" twice a year. The organization will offer various education programs and will issue the license of "Gestalt therapist" through quality control such as training, supervision and examination.
Thus, the organization has invited Morgan Goodlander (Director of the San Francisco Gestalt therapy Center) from May 27th to May 29th 2011, and Lynne Jacobs (Co-Director of the Pacific Gestalt therapy Institute) from October 12 to Oct 14th 2012 for a 3-day Gestalt therapy workshop, respectively, in Seoul, Korea.

Warmly,
Jungkyu Kim, Ph.D.
President, Korean Gestalt Therapy Association

Dear Philip,
Thank you very much! I'll give the information about Gestalt! in the next newsletter of our Institute. And when this journal will be on line, I'll put this information also on my blog.

Here is my proposal : 
The Blog of the Institut Français de Gestalt-thérapie (http://www.blog-ifgt.com/)  aims to spread in French

• psychotherapists’ and researchers’ in psychotherapy works which can be useful for gestalt-therapists.
• More particularly, research about gestalt-therapy
• And more generally, informations about psychotherapy.

This blog is lead by Brigitte Lapeyronnie-Robine, psychiatrist, Gestalt-therapist, director and trainer in IFGT.
With my best,
Brigitte