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Answer to Jon Frew, PhD
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Serge Ginger
As I said before to Bud, we really don't know how to call our groups in English. It could be “Individual Gestalt therapy within a group setting” — but that's very long and not completely exact, because, of course, the group setting is also used. Before practicing Gestalt Therapy, we practiced classical Group Dynamics for about 15 years and we're used to an awareness of different kinds of group processes and interpersonal dynamics. We allow some spontaneous interventions of the participanst, but we limit them; perhaps, our article did not give a clear view of these two interwoven aspects of our work.
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[ Last updated, 11/23/03 ]
Gestalt!
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March, 2000
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In our style, the therapist is active and interactive, but not "directive;" h/she follows the direction choosen by the client, but he does it with personal involvment — controlled during regular supervision meetings. Before practicing Gestalt Therapy, we were classical Freudian psychoanalysts; then, we discovered the Rogerian approach. So, we deeply understand the Perls’ provocative statement about “apathy, empathy and sympathy ."
We don’t want to “push” our client, but we take the risk of supporting him or her in trying different experiments, in different new directions h/she is not accustomed to explore.
We agree with the three “cornerstones” you point out : phenomenology, dialogue and field theory… and we invite you, with great pleasure, to participate in one of our annual summer intensive residential workshops for psychotherapists, in the South of France, to taste not “the” but “our” French Gestalt Therapy approach!
Thanks again for your interest.
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