A Field-Centred Approach to Gestalt Therapy

Agency and Response-Ability in a Changing World
1. Auflage 2024
ISBN: 978-1-032-59462-0
Verlag: Taylor & Francis

Buch, Englisch, 158 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 422 g

Reihe: The Gestalt Therapy Book Series

In Gestalt therapy, sociological, political, and economic research is often neglected or ignored. Drawing on analyses about current societal conditions, this book considers that there is no such thing as a ‘postmodern’ therapy and offers a new approach to Gestalt therapy.

Gestalt therapy is still currently based on the Cartesian worldview, even if relational approaches are in search for an ‘in-between’. The author’s approach of Gestalt therapy is based on an idea by the founders: “Contact is the first reality” – so the field coemerges and coexists with individuals’ perceptions providing specific conditions, demands, limitations and opportunities. An individual’s field is not an afterthought established by the perspective of the first-person-singular (i.e. individuals) but a ‘conditio sine qua non’. Gutjahr reflects on both theoretical and practical aspects of the field’s many processes of resonance. Putting the field consistently at the centre of his approach, the author describes the main tenets expanding on previous versions of Gestalt therapy.

This important new book is at the cutting edge of the current discussion of relational and field-oriented approaches to Gestalt therapy, and will be of particular interest to practitioners of Gestalt therapy, psychotherapists, phenomenologists, as well as theorists of philosophy, sociology and therapy.

Zielgruppe

Professional Practice & Development and Professional Reference

Autoren/Hrsg.

Gutjahr, Lothar

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Psychologie Psychologie / Allgemeines & Theorie Psychologische Theorie, Psychoanalyse

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction: The personal is political is personal is political  1. Homo homini emptor! Therapy in times of liquid modernity  2. How to shrink a bat: individualism, intersubjectivity and the ‘in-between  3. Contact is a field’s first reality  4. The id of the situation: atmospheres demystified  5. In contact we are being resonated  6. Grounding resonance – the physical and felt body  7. Personalistic gestalt therapy and its subsequent relational turn  8. In the middle of therapy, the field has its seat  9. My gestalt of therapy: The aftermath of contact is accomplished growth  10. Epilogue

Über Autor(innen)

Lothar Gutjahr is a therapist, mediator and business coach working with people on personal and health issues, leadership challenges, conflict resolution, difficult negotiations, project management, and intercultural cooperation. He finished his Gestalt education at the Gestalt Institute Hamburg (GIH) and started his own practice in 2017. He is also an author. www.ProvoCoach.com