Polster From the Radical Center

The Heart of Gestalt Therapy
Erscheinungsjahr 2013
ISBN: 978-1-135-06157-9
Verlag: CRC Press
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 374 Seiten

This remarkable collection traces central themes in the work of Erving and Miriam Polster, two of the best-known and best loved Gestalt therapists in the world. The writings herein span 4 decades in the history of psychotherapy, bringing together practical, theoretical and aesthetic dimensions of the Polsters' work in a single book. Ranging across diverse subjects and distinct historical periods, the work collected in this volume will educate, provoke, inspire and nourish Gestalt therapists for years to come.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Polster, Erving

Polster, Miriam

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Psychologie Psychotherapie / Klinische Psychologie
• Sozialwissenschaften Psychologie Psychologische Disziplinen Angewandte Psychologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction - Arthur Roberts
Prologue
I. Setting the Stage
- A Contemporary Psychotherapy
- The Language of Experience
- Sensory Functioning in Psychotherapy
- Women in Therapy: A Gestalt Therapist's View
- Gestalt Therapy: Evolution and Application
II. Transformation of Principles
- Therapy Without Resistance: Gestalt Therapy
- Escape from the Present
- Tight Therapeutic Sequences
- Every Person's Life is Worth a Novel
- The Therapeutic Power of Attention
- The Self in Action: A Gestalt Outlook
- Translating Theory into Practice: Martin Heidegger and Gestalt Therapy
- Commonality and Diversity in Gestalt Therapy
- In Memory of Carl Rogers: Great Men Cast Great Shadows
III. The Role of Community
- Encounter in Community
- Eve's Daughters: The Forbidden Heroism of Women
- Individuality and Communality
- Beyond One to One
- It's Only the Most Recent Year of the Woman
- Coda
- What's New?