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Hidden Treasure: A Map to the Child's Inner Self

Violet Oaklander

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A Pleasure to Read and Consider 5 out of 5 stars.
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Violet's new book is both theoretical and practical in scope. Reading this book stimulated my own creative thinking about helping children integrate their feelings and experiences. Violet writes about working with precision (commonly achieving tangible results), while treating both the child and therapist as wonderfully rich, whole organisms. I reproduced a chapter for my staff therapists under publisher permission, introducing staff I treasure to an therapist/author I respect. I am a Gestalt-oriented psychologist, and Violet pioneered the translation of that therapy into treatment for children. This is a joyful therapy intended for those who want to enhance their capacity to engage in powerful therapeutic contact with a child. Thanks Violet.

Editorial Review:

Hidden Treasure is a follow up to Oaklander’s best selling book, Windows To Our Children. It contains material that she has developed over the last 27 years.

The book provides an approach to working with children and adolescents that involves a variety of creative, projective and expressive techniques with Gestalt Therapy, theory, philosophy and practice as the underlying framework. The focus is to provide the child with a means for expressing his or her innermost feelings, to foster self-awareness and self-discovery, to enhance self-esteem, and in general, to promote emotional growth. The approach is applicable to a wide variety of ages as well as settings as individual work, family work, and group settings.

This book will interest child and adolescent psychotherapists, psychologists, social workers, counselors, interns, school personnel, as well as graduate-level students. Parents of young children may also find it helpful.

Skills in Gestalt Counselling & Psychotherapy (Skills in Counselling & Psychotherapy Series)

Phil Joyce, Charlotte Sills

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`I looked forward to reading this book and was not disappointed. It reflects the best of the Gestalt approach - it is clear, challenging and refreshing. Emphasis is placed on the importance of a safe and supporting framework within which therapeutic work takes place, and this is reflected in the reader feeling a real connection with the authors.

The humanistic element of Gestalt comes through clearly in this book. Not only is this an important read for those training in Gestalt but it is equally important for trainees and established therapists in the humanistic and integrated field' - Counsellingbooks.com

`This book was put on our reading list for diploma students in humanistic counselling, and it has been snapped up by the students' - Bee Springwood, Self & Society

'Written in a clear and accessible style, this slim volume will be valued as a wise guide in attaining the necessary skills for a Gestalt flavoured clinical practice... It is in the reference material from Gestalt practitioners across the world that the authors provide a succinct integration of Gestalt theory and practice from these last fifty years. This is one of the understated but powerful aspects of the book... I recommend that all Gestalt practitioners get a copy of Skills in Gestalt Counselling & Psychotherapy for their professional library and make sure that it is mandatory reading for their students' - Dorothy E Siminovitch, A Gestalt Guide for the Journey of Skill Development

'An informative book, well worth the money, that will enrich the practice of any practitioner' - Stress News

Skills in Gestalt Counselling & Psychotherapy is a practical introduction to the different techniques used at each stage of the counselling process. The book takes the reader through the process from beginning to termination and focuses on skills which arise out of Gestalt theory as well as those invoked by the counselling relationship.

Accessibly written by experienced practitioners, the book gives clear guidelines on: establishing the relationship; assessment and goal-setting; developing the client's awareness; maintaining the relationship and bringing the counselling to an end.

The authors also examine the spiritual dimension of counselling and offer guidance on some of the special considerations affecting counsellors such as the context in which they are working, the duration of the relationship, and particular problems with which clients present. For all those training in Gestalt or who wish to sharpen their skills as practitioners, this will be essential reading.

The Handbook of Gestalt Play Therapy: Practical Guidelines for Child Therapists

Rinda Blom

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Very practical 5 out of 5 stars.
1 of 2 people found this review helpful.

You can't miss this book if you're interested in Gestalttherapy or Play therapy.

Also great reading!

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This book is an introduction to gestalt play therapy a technique which combines the principles of gestalt theory with play techniques, so that children are able to use play to address their needs and problems. Research has shown that this approach can be applied successfully in children with different types of emotional problems in order to improve their self-support and self-esteem. "The Handbook of Gestalt Play Therapy" provides the reader with an explanation of gestalt theory, a practical explanation of the gestalt play therapy model and also a wide range of play techniques that can be applied during each phase of the therapy process. It also features case studies throughout which illustrate how the techniques work in practice.

Born to Win: Transactional Analysis with Gestalt Experiments

Muriel James, Dorothy Jongeward

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Well Done! 5 out of 5 stars.
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I have been a practicing pychologist for almost thirty years. have my original yellowed copy with broken back, prominant on my shelf. I refer people to this book and work them through it as a course in thinking and feeling change!

It is clear and understandable. I was taught Transactional Analysis by my Clinical professor. We also used TA in the theraputic community when I was a prison psychologist. The authors combine gestalt process along with transactional models. Eric Berne the creator of TA was trained in Freudian Psychology so there is some parallels. But the language is concrete and the sources of the content are tangible. It is a process oriented book, with some insight thrown in.

There is criticism about a lack of philosophical orientation, but I continue to recomend this book after many years, and send my patients/clients out to find it. Hopefully we will continue to keep it being published.

Possibly an updated version? Why? You may not be old enough to remember when the grocery store gave out gold and green stamps for merchandise redemtion? So the idea of collecting stamps as a way of describing building up feelings of injustice may be confusing.

I have used this as a text in bibliotherapy for some clients who radically changed there lives before my eyes.

I highly recomend this book! I actually do! In my practice!

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A nearly three million copy seller returns. " . . . probably the clearest and most up-to-date statement of . . . Transactional Analysis, and easily the best of the popular books (in this field)."--Psychology Today. Photographs. Reissue.

Gestalt Therapy: History, Theory, and Practice

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Praise for Gestalt Therapy: History, Theory, and Practice

"This is an incredibly important addition to the world of psychotherapy and Gestalt, in particular. This book will be very helpful for use with various courses of study, not just Gestalt institutes and special training programs, but also general graduate school classes in masters programs for mental health, social work, counseling, allied health professionals, psychiatry, and psychology. I highly recommend this book. I think it will make an excellent contribution."

-Norman Shub, Gestalt Associates, Columbus, Ohio & Gestalt Institute of Central Ohio

"Ansel L. Woldt and Sarah M. Toman have put together a monumental text that fills a gap in the genre of serious Gestalt literature that has remained relatively empty since Perls, Hefferline, and Goodman's Gestalt Therapy was published in 1951. This is not to say that there haven’t been extraordinary works in this field published since then; however, this is one of the most expansive books of the recent collection. Each of the chapter authors has written impressive selections that, taken one-by-one, are valuable additions for serious students and practitioners. What earns this book an evaluation as extraordinary is both the content and the structure."

-J. Edward Lynch, Southern Connecticut State University

Gestalt Therapy: History, Theory, and Practice is an introductory text, written by major Gestalt theorists, that will engage those new to Gestalt therapy. Editors Ansel Woldt and Sarah M. Toman introduce the historical underpinnings and fundamental concepts of Gestalt therapy and illustrate applications of those concepts to therapeutic practice. The book is unique in that it is the first Gestalt text specifically designed for the academic and training institute settings. Gestalt Therapy takes both a conceptual and a practical approach to examining classic and cutting-edge constructs. In each chapter, understanding of concepts proceeds from content to case applications to experiential exercises.

is an introductory text, written by major Gestalt theorists, that will engage those new to Gestalt therapy. Editors Ansel Woldt and Sarah M. Toman introduce the historical underpinnings and fundamental concepts of Gestalt therapy and illustrate applications of those concepts to therapeutic practice. The book is unique in that it is the first Gestalt text specifically designed for the academic and training institute settings. takes both a conceptual and a practical approach to examining classic and cutting-edge constructs. In each chapter, understanding of concepts proceeds from content to case applications to experiential exercises.

Key Features

• Organized into two parts to provide the background, theory, and methodology first in Part I before examining the applications of Gestalt therapy in Part II
• Chapters are written by theorists and practitioners who are experts in various aspects of Gestalt therapy
• Chapters follow a consistent format-Introduction (with bios of chapter authors and dialogue respondents), Body/Content (with case study examples), Conclusion, Review Questions, and Experiential Applications and Activities
• "Dialogue Boxes" run alongside the content, thus mirroring a key Gestalt concept of valuing multiple perspectives and voices
• An Epilogue guides readers to training resources, Gestalt Internet resources, and Gestalt organizations

Gestalt Therapy is designed for graduate students studying mental health, as well as for trainees at the many Gestalt training institutes around the world.

is designed for graduate students studying mental health, as well as for trainees at the many Gestalt training institutes around the world. (20040823)

Consenting to Grace: An Introduction to Gestalt Pastoral Care

Tilda Norberg

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A True Gem of Courage and Grace! 5 out of 5 stars.
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In CONSENTING TO GRACE, author Tilda Norberg charts out a remarkable model for integrating Gestalt psychotherapy, spiritual direction and healing prayer. Norberg is trained (at Union Seminary in New York) and ordained as a Christian minister and also as a Gestalt Psychotherapist. In this remarkable book Norberg recounts how she came to integrate these two discrete parts of her training into a remarkably gracious and powerful approach to inviting people into a journey of transformation and healing, including also key elements of spiritual direction. Much more than that, in this book Norberg shares and explains to us how to step out in this way of helping people to open themselves to grace and healing. My words of affirmation come not only from reading these wonderful teachings, now that they are in book form, but also from directly experiencing Norberg's gracious guidance to powerful breakthroughs in my own life, from experimenting with her teachings in her course in Gestalt Pastoral Care (for which earlier versions of the contents of this book provided much of the course material), and then working side-by-side with her when she came several years to my seminary to train students here to practice Gestalt Pastoral Care. Our seminary was not able to find a way to incorporate this amazing course and its models of integration into our curriculum. This is my regret and, I believe, our loss. One of the greatest challenges in training for ministry and therapy is to transcend the barriers that inhibit us modern and postmodern people from directly collaborating with the Spirit of healing and inviting wounded, broken people into the circle where that collaboration is happening. This is what Tilda Norberg in CONSENTING TO GRACE teaches us to do. A truly extraordinary part of what Norberg teaches (in the last chapter) is how we can take part in the healing of wounded and broken social entities or groups. When she was teaching this lesson, I suggested that we experiment with a Christian church synod in schism on the other side of the world that I was working with in search of reconciliation. Your faith and imagination will be stretched when you consider how what was done by a group of students on one side of the world contributed to the healing of a broken synod on the other side of the world, drawing students there also into creative participation in what the Spirit of healing was doing.

Editorial Review:

Consenting to Grace, set in the context of the author's own healing journey, integrates healing prayer, spiritual companioning, and insights from Gestalt psychotherapy. Gestalt Pastoral Care is attentive to the intricate dance of body, mind, emotions, spirit, and social context, in the faith that God is already at work in each of these arenas to bring healing. Tilda Norberg shows how insights from Gestalt Pastoral Care can greatly enhance ministries of healing and pastoral counseling.

Windows to Our Children: A Gestalt Therapy Approach to Children And Adolescents

Violet Oaklander

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Like Perls for Children 5 out of 5 stars.
6 of 6 people found this review helpful.

I have a thriving passion for experiential work, and Violet shows how it is applicable to child treatment. Dr. Oaklander has a deep respect for and understanding of children. She knows how to use their imaginations (and her own) to help them both heal and develop internal resources. I have included her ideas in my own therapeutic work with children/teens, and also in training clinicians. This is my favorite child therapy book. Her new book is due out in December 2006.

Excellent 5 out of 5 stars.
5 of 5 people found this review helpful.

This is a wonderful book on using many techniques with children. She incorporates guided imagary and art therapy techniques. I work with children and have utilized many ideas with great success. I do wish she would write another book with even more techniques.

Editorial Review:

With over 300 pages of methods, materials, techniques for working with children and adolescents, transcripts, case examples and discussion, this book more than fills a void in the child therapy literature. Counselors and therapists, in schools, mental health centers and private practice embrace this book. It is the largest selling book on the subject in the world.

Developing Gestalt Counselling (Developing Counselling series)

Jennifer Mackewn

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Describing contemporary integrative Gestalt counselling and psychotherapy, this book addresses 30 key issues which will help both trainee and practising counsellors examine and improve crucial areas of their work.

The field theoretical and relational model which underpins the book suggests that therapy is a complex process which requires therapists to be intuitive and self-aware while engaging in a number of interrelated therapeutic tasks. The importance of meeting clients person-to-person in a meaningful relationship is highlighted.

Jennifer Mackewn encourages counsellors to focus on areas that they may feel need special attention, and shows them how to blend their skills into a subtle and versatile art form. The book covers vital aspects of Gestalt counselling and psychotherapy, such as: appreciating the significance of beginnings; understanding the client's context; the dialogic relationship; contact and awareness; exploring life themes and support systems; and experimental and creative methods.

Developing Gestalt Counselling is primarily addressed to practitioners who are already familiar with counselling and psychotherapy. It will refine and develop their skills and knowledge so that they may form even more effective relationships with their clients.

In Search of Good Form: Gestalt Therapy with Couples and Families (Gestalt Institute of Cleveland Book Series)

Joseph C Zinker

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an enabling, supportive reference source for therapists 5 out of 5 stars.
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This book is packed, without being written to intimidate. Sections are clearly headed, inviting use of the book as a reference.

As my understanding and interests in gestalt therapy evolve, so do different sections strike me differently.

Zinker is a coach, who leans over my shoulder as I consider my approach to helping others. The tone is unequivocal: encouraging and articulate.

Zinker has been been immersed in the field to such depths that his writing shows evidence of integration of his findings. He covers gestalt therapy; a difficult topic to write about. He spells out his findings about working with families and does so in an aesthetic, almost spiritual.

Yet, I also find the book written with an intellectual rigour that invites revisiting. It's written in a can-do, leading edge manner.

Editorial Review:

Drawing on a wealth of detailed, fully annotated clinical examples from his more than 30 years of experience, Joseph Zinker, founder and leader of the Gestalt Institute of Cleveland, offers a hands-on guide that is both philosophical and concrete. He demystifies the process of Gestalt therapy, describing exactly how he goes about conducting the session--how he sets it up, what he says, what he looks for, follows, supports, and why.

Gestalt Counselling in Action (Counselling in Action series)

Petruska Clarkson

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Gestalt Counseling in Action is a bestselling text which has sold over 30,000 copies. Now in its Third Edition, the book continues to be a popular text for training in counselling and psychotherapy and with practitioners who are new to the gestalt approach.

Drawing on over 30 years experience as a gestalt practitioner, trainer and supervisor, Petruska Clarkson has written a lively and authoritative introduction to the approach, beginning with the theoretical and philosophical basis of gestalt. She clearly sets out the six main phases of the therapeutic process, introducing us to a client, 'Gary', whose case is used throughout the book to illustrate the process of therapy and the techniques used in each of the phases.

Fully revised and updated, Gestalt Counselling in Action, Third Edition includes a new chapter which explores recent developments in the field and looks to the future for the gestalt approach.