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Gestalt Psychology: An Introduction to New Concepts in Modern Psychology

Wolfgang Kohler

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An absolute classic. 5 out of 5 stars.
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This is one of my favorite psychology books ever. In a short book, it manages a perceptive criticism of the two major 20th century currents in psychology (behaviorism and introspectionism) together with an exposition of Gestalt psychology's alternative. A must-read.

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Wolfgang Koehler (1887-1967) was one of the founders of Gestalt psychology, the influential school that argues that perception is best understood as an organized pattern rather than as separate parts. This book presents Koehler's statement of Gestalt theory.

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.

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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.

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.

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.

Back To the Beanstalk: Enchantment and Reality for Couples ("Gestalt Institute of Cleveland Book Series)

Judith R Brown

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The Heart of Development: Gestalt Approaches to Working with Children, Adolescents, and Their Worlds, V. 2 (Gestatt Press)

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Applications presented herein range among settings 5 out of 5 stars.
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The Heart Of Development: Adolescence is the second volume in the "Great Approaches To Working With Children, Adolescents And Their Worlds" series, and aptly edited by the collaborative efforts of Mark McConville and Gordon Wheeler. Adolescence is an extensive guide to the Gestalt model of working with children, adolescents, and their families. The applications presented herein range among settings from the clinical office to the family and schools. Creative new ideas and effective interventions are described for those who practice every school and method of psychology. The Heart Of Development: Adolescence is an enlightening read and recommended for students of psychology and therapists who work with adolescent youth and their families.

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In this ground-breaking volume, readers will find an exciting, broad-ranging selection of work showing an array of applications of the Gestalt model to working with children, adolescents, and their families and worlds. From the theoretical to the hands-on, and from the clinical office or playroom to family settings, schools, institutions, and the community, these chapters take us on a rewarding tour of the vibrant, productive range of Gestalt work today, always focusing on the first two decades of life. With each new topic and setting, fresh and creative ideas and interventions are offered and described, for use by practitioners of every school and method.

Brief Gestalt Therapy (Brief Therapies series)

Gaie Houston

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Gestalt Centre, London, UK. Demonstrates how effectively the Gestalt approach can be used in brief interventions with patients. Examines the basic theory and principles and explores each phase of the therapeutic process. Also discusses the elements of successful therapy and ways of improving therapy skills. Softcover, hardcover available.

Max Wertheimer and Gestalt Theory

D. King, Michael Wertheimer

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The ideas of Max Wertheimer (1880-1943), a founder of Gestalt theory, are discussed in almost all general books on the history of psychology and in most introductory textbooks on psychology. This intellectual biography of Wertheimer is the first book-length treatment of a scholar whose ideas are recognized as of central importance to fields as varied as social psychology, cognitive neuroscience, problem solving, art, and visual neuroscience. King and Wertheimer trace the origins of Gestalt thought, demonstrating its continuing importance in fifteen chapters and several supplements to these chapters. They begin by reviewing Wertheimer's ancestry, family, childhood in central Europe, and his formal education. They elaborate on his activities during the period in which he developed the ideas that were later to become central to Gestalt psychology, documenting the formal emergence of this school of thought and tracing its development during World War I. The maturation of the Gestalt school at the University of Berlin during 1922-1929 is discussed in detail. Wertheimer's everyday life in America during his last decade is well documented, based in part on his son's recollections. The early reception of Gestalt theory in the United States is examined, with extensive references to articles in professional journals and periodicals. Wertheimer's relationships and interaction with three prominent psychologists of the time, Edwin Boring, Clark Hull, and Alexander Luria, are discussed based on previously unpublished correspondence. The final chapters discuss Wertheimer's essays on democracy, freedom, ethics, and truth, and detail personal challenges Wertheimer faced during his last years. His major work, published after his death, is "Productive Thinking". Its reception is examined, and a concluding chapter considers recent responses to Max Wertheimer and Gestalt theory. This intellectual biography will be of interest to psychologists and readers interested in science, modern European history, and the Holocaust.

Beyond Individualism: Toward a New Understanding of Self, Relationship, and Experience

Gordon Wheeler

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In this pathbreaking and provocative new treatment of some of the oldest dilemmas of psychology and relationship, Gordon Wheeler challenges the most basic tenet of the West cultural tradition: the individualist self. Characteristics of this self-model are our embedded yet pervasive ideas that the individual self precedes and transcends relationship and social field conditions and that interpersonal experience is somehow secondary and even opposed to the needs of the inner self. Assumptions like these, Wheeler argues, which are taken to be inherent to human nature and development, amount to a controlling cultural paradigm that does considerable violence to both our evolutionary self-nature and our intuitive self-experience. He asserts that we are actually far more relational and intersubjective than our cultural generally allows and that these relational capacities are deeply built into our inherent evolutionary nature.

His argument progresses from the origins and lineage of the Western individualist self-model, into the basis for a new model of the self, relationship, and experience out of the insights and implications of Gestalt psychology and its philosophical derivatives, deconstructivism and social constructionism. From there, in a linked series of experiential chapters, each of them a groundbreaking essay in its own right, he takes up the essential dynamic themes of self-experience and relational life: interpersonal orientation, meaning-making and adaptation, support, shame, intimacy, and finally narrative and gender, culminating in considerations of health, ethics, politics, and spirit. The result is a picture and an experience of self that is grounded in the active dynamics of attention, problem solving, imagination, interpretation, evaluation, emotion, meaning-making, narration, and, above all, relationship. By the final section, the reader comes away with a new sense of what it means to be human and a new and more usable d

From the Radical Center: The Heart of Gestalt Therapy (Gestalt Institute of Cleveland Press Book Series)

Erving Polster, Miriam Polster

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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.