“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 Foreword by Erving Polster

Lynne Jacobs, Ph.D., a co-founder of the Pacific Gestalt Institute, and a training and supervising analyst at the Institute of Contemporary Psychoanalysis, has published widely on relation processes in therapy. She co-authored (with Rich Hycner), The Healing Relationship in Gestalt Therapy: A dialogic, Self-Psychology Approach. She teaches internationally.

Rich Hycner, Ph.D., is the author of Between Person and Person: Toward a dialogical Psychotherapy and co-author with Lynne Jacobs of The Healing Relationship in Gestalt Therapy: A dialogic, Self-Psychology Approach. Profoundly influenced by Martin Buber’s philosophy of dialogue and Erving and Miriam Polster’s creative utilization of Gestalt therapy, he is keenly interested in the relational dimensions of the therapeutic relationship as a nexus for healing.