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The Heart of Development: Gestalt Approaches to Working with Children, Adolescents and Their Worlds: Volume II
In these groundbreaking new collections, the reader will find an exciting, broad-ranging selection of work showing an array of applications of the Gestalt model to working with children,...
Community and Confluence
This essay in liberation psychology shows how everyone in an oppressive society participates in creating and re-creating oppression, and, consequently, can also act to undo the clinch of oppression....
Getting Beyond Sobriety
In this groundbreaking book, Michael Clemmens offers a new model of treatment for long-term recovery that goes beyond the traditional “disease’ paradigm. Working from the belief that a...
Aggression, Time, and Understanding
This is the first book published in English of Staemmler’s writings. It includes five of his most important papers that have had a strong influence on the evolution of Gestalt therapy in the...
A Well-Lived Life
“Sylvia Crocker . . . integrates Gestalt therapy’s original theoretical underpinnings with additional insights from human development and a wide range of other contemporary theories . ....
The Values of Connection
When we turn to include a primary focus on the context of the larger relational field and explore our interconnection with others, we find that Gestalt theory offers an ethics which is much more than...
Gestalt Therapy: Perspectives and Applications
Gestalt Therapy: Perspectives and Applications is a classic text which, when it was first released in 1992, signaled a renaissance of Gestalt scholarship throughout the world. In this volume, Edwin...
Relational 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...
Here Now Next
Paul Goodman left his mark in a number of fields: he went from being known as social critic and philosopher of the New Left to poet and literary critic to author of influential works on education...
Organizational Consulting: A Gestalt Approach
In this classic text, pioneering organizational consultant Edwin C. Nevis presents an approach to organizational consulting which is grounded in Gestalt theory. Nevis brings his well-known insight,...
Body Process
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...
CoCreating 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...
Crazy Hope & Finite Experience
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,...
Mending the World
New to GestaltPress! Mending the World provides a blueprint for making a difference in the intractable social issues that exist today. It presents the compelling drama of thirteen stories of...
The Bridge
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...
Sketches
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...
In Search of Good Form
In Search of Good Form, the long awaited sequel to Joseph Zinker’s path-breaking and classic bestseller, Creative Process in Gestalt Therapy, is an exciting and practical guide to Gestalt work...
Contact and Context
Contact and Context: New Directions in Gestalt Coaching presents a dynamic range of accounts from leading organizational coaches, describing how they ground their practice in Gestalt theory and...
Healing Tasks
This groundbreaking book presents a new model for working with survivors of abuse and other trauma. The Healing Tasks Model, based on developmental stages of healing with specific tasks for each...
Encountering Bigotry
This book examines productive and unproductive ways of acting in the presence of bigoted activities. In a world in crisis with masses of individuals feeling alone and unsupported, faulty projecting...
Adolescence: Psychotherapy and the Emergent Self
Many therapists can attest to the fact that adolescents can be difficult and frustrating clients – problems are seldom well defined, clearly delineated symptoms are more the exception than the...
Embodied Relational Gestalt: Theory and Applications
By Michael Craig Clemmens 2019 / ISBN 978-0-367-35346-9 $39.95 This wonderful new collection is one of the most log-needed titles in the Gestalt field. All of us who work with clients in...
On Intimate Ground
Couples therapy has long been regarded as one of the most demanding of all forms of psychotherapy because of the way it challenges therapists to combine insights of dynamic psychology with the power...
The 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...
Gestalt Therapy: Living Creatively Today
How can we reconcile our desire for freedom with the limits of routines that organize our existence? How do we affirm our personality while adjusting to the word? How can we be nourished by exchanges...
Window Frames
How do children emotionally heal and regain equilibrium after suffering trauma? How do adults understand and help them in a therapeutic relationship? These questions are at the heart of Violet...
Even if it Costs Me My Life
“Through the intuitive use of the family constellation, Stephan Hausner has discovered a unique passage into the heart and soul of illness. Weaving wisdom and love with his considerable...
Gestalt Reconsidered
In this original and penetrating work, the origins of the Gestalt psychotherapy model are traced back to its roots in psychoanalysis and Gestalt cognitive and perceptual psychology. Drawing new...
The Collective Silence
The silence surrounding the Holocaust continues to prevent healing – whether of the victims, Nazis, or the generations that followed them. The telling of the stories surrounding the Holocaust, all...
Back to the Beanstalk
A keen observer of couples’ interactions, Judith Brown captures with warmth and humor how the characters in these age-old folk-tales create their predicaments — for better or for worse....
The Voice of Shame
Shame and shame reactions are two of the most delicate and difficult issues of psychotherapy and are among the most likely to defy our usual dynamic, systemic, and behavioral theories. In this...
Beyond Individualism
In this path-breaking and provocative new treatment of some of the oldest dilemmas of psychology and relationship, Gordon Wheeler challenges that most basic tenet of the Western cultural tradition:...
Body of Awareness
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...
Becoming A Stepfamily
What determines whether stepfamilies remain together? What helps stepfamilies overcome the difficulties of remarriage and become mutually supportive family units? How can mental health professionals...
The Heart of Development: Gestalt Approaches to Working with Children, Adolescents and Their Worlds: Volume I
In these groundbreaking new collections, the reader will find an exciting, broad-ranging selection of work showing an array of applications of the Gestalt model to working with children, adolescents,...
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...