A Gestalt Therapist's Guide Through the Depressive Field

Giving Way to Hope
1. Auflage 2024
ISBN: 978-1-032-81495-7
Verlag: Taylor & Francis

Buch, Englisch, 164 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 408 g

Reihe: The Gestalt Therapy Book Series

This book is intended for psychotherapists working with depressed clients. In particular, it focuses on how working with depressed clients affects the therapists themselves, and elaborates on how therapists can care for themselves in such demanding work to prevent burnout, or process it meaningfully as part of their professional development.

Based on the results of the author’s own long-term experience, qualitative research and theoretical concepts describing psychopathology from the humanistic-existential perspective of Gestalt therapy, this book describes a paradoxical way of working in which therapists transform their own experience in the presence of a depressed client. Using the example of working with depression, the book introduces how the field theory approach can be used in clinical practice. The book provides a conceptual framework, practical skills and case examples illustrating what a field theory approach brings new to the table.

This will be a useful guide for psychotherapists and Gestalt therapists who regularly come into contact with depressive clients, as well as for therapists who are themselves experiencing professional exhaustion and are at risk of reaching burnout.

Zielgruppe

Professional Practice & Development and Professional Reference

Autoren/Hrsg.

Roubal, Jan

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Psychologie Psychotherapie / Klinische Psychologie Psychopathologie
• Sozialwissenschaften Psychologie Psychologie / Allgemeines & Theorie Psychologische Theorie, Psychoanalyse

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction 1. How Depression Gets Under Our Skin 2. We Depress Together 3. Why Do We Do It? 4. Therapists in the Depressive Swamp 5. What Do We Actually Do? 6. Letting Pain Be Felt 7. The Art of "Doing Nothing" 8. Surrendering to Hope 9. Above All, Get Out of the Way 10. Inviting a Stranger 11. Something for the Road Postscrip 12. Diagnosis Like the Backrest of a Chair 13. Not Fighting with the Medication 14. Movement in the Suicidal Field

Über Autor(innen)

Jan Roubal, MD, PhD, is an associate professor at Masaryk University in Brno, Czech Republic, where he also works in the Center for Psychotherapy Research. He works as a psychotherapist and psychiatrist. He founded the Training in Psychotherapy Integration and the Training Gestalt Studia in the Czech Republic; he also works as a psychotherapy trainer and supervisor internationally.