Embodied Relational Gestalt: Theory and Applications

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“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

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Body of Awareness

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Merging scientific theory with a practical clinical approach, Body of Awareness explores the formation of infant movement experience and its manifest influence upon the later adult. Most significantly, it shows how the organizing principles in early development are functionally equivalent to those of the adult and how movement plays a critical role in a developing self-awareness for the […]

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CoCreating the Field

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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 […]

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Body Process

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In this groundbreaking text, which has quickly become a classic in the field, James Kepner takes us beyond working “on the body,” to an exploration of body process itself: how we embody and carry our experiences physically and energetically, and how this embodiment colors and often limits future experience. For a decade now psychotherapists of […]

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