“Considering various forms of the relational field, from which our experiences emerge, Michael Clemmens presents the concept of “forms of embodiment”, a very interesting and useful development of phenomenology of perception and Gestalt therapy. I feel grateful for his work that creates a solid basis for recent studies on therapist/client reciprocity in aesthetic terms, like the “Aesthetic Relational Knowledge” and the “Dance Steps”. This book and the unique perspective expressed by all chapter authors stand as a fresh description of clinical situations which you cannot help but use.”
– Margherita Spagnuolo Lobb, Istituto di Gestalt HCC Italy, Siracusa, Palermo, Milano; www.gestaltitaly.com
Relational Approaches in Gestalt Therapy
“Now… there is a surging renewal of Gestalt therapy’s humanisitic perspective in accentuating contact as the springboard to relationship . . . in this augmentation from simple experience into the larger humanity of engagement, Jacobs and Hycner have created a rendezvous of minds sharply attentive to the indivisibility between self and other.” – From the […]
Read MoreThe Secret Language of Intimacy
The knots in which troubled couples find themselves, from hurt feelings to entrenched defensiveness, blaming, and stonewalling, are often bewildering, disorienting, and painful, both to the couples themselves and to those who attempt to help them. These knots defy the depth of caring and importance intimate partners feel for one another and are resistant to […]
Read MoreCoCreating the Field
Volume I in the Esalen Evolution of Gestalt Series, Co-Creating the Field lays out a paradigm shift that re-grounds in our human story in evolutionary psychology and contemporary neuroscience, viewed through the lens of relational Gestalt theory. The clarifications of theory and method brought out in the chapters of the book provide the base for […]
Read MoreRelational Child, Relational Brain
Relational Child, Relational Brain is Volume II in the Evolution of Gestalt Series. It continues the development of the paradigm shift that places human development in a field that is deeply complex and fundamentally one of interconnection, taking us away from the limiting view of us as separate individuals. The book builds on the foundations […]
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