A legacy Gestalt teacher and a co-founder of the Gestalt Institute of Cleveland, Joseph lives on Cape Cod, MA and continues to teach and train around the world. In this volume, Joseph shares stories and learning from a remarkable lifetime reaching from childhood survival in Holocaust-era Poland to an influential international career which has left […]

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Gestalt therapy enables dialogue across cultures, giving value difference, subjective experience, heritage, and context. Hence, it is a bridge across cultures, a bridge composed of mutual interests and, above all, of the conviction in the right of the other to exist. It is therefore a meeting place of differences. Culture is a fixed creative adjustment […]

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From the publication of Growing Up Absurd in 1960 until his death in 1972, Paul Goodman had the ear of the young radicals of the New Left, pouring forth books and articles on education, technology, decentralization, and of course, the war in Vietnam. Yet Goodman saw himself primarily as an artist rather than a political thinker or sociologist, and many of his books, even during the 1960’s, were works of poetry, drama, and fiction. He had also practiced as a psychotherapist and joined with Frederick Perls and Ralph Hefferline in producing a new synthesis in psychological thought, Gestalt therapy, which has since become an international movement. In an age of specialization, few writers have taken on so broad a range of concerns.

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