Gestalt Therapy: Living Creatively Today
Book Details
- Publisher : Gestalt Press
- Published : 2006
- Cover : Paperback
- Category :
Gestalt Therapy - Catalogue No : 26369
- ISBN 13 : 9780881634587
- ISBN 10 : 0881634581
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Gonzague Masquelier presents the history of fifty years of the Gestalt movement as well as its development in today's world. He begins with the story of its founders: Laura and Fritz Perls, and their associate, Paul Goodman. He explains how this unique therapeutic path developed little by little, through the meeting of European existentialism with American pragmatism. Then, he clearly explains the principal concepts which form the basis of this approach, illustrated by numerous clinical examples taken from his own professional experience. Finally, the author reviews the current areas of practice of the Gestalt approach: not only individual or group psychotherapy, but also within organizations, executive board rooms and the training professions. He offers an excellent synthesis of differing aspects of this important perspective within the field of psychology today.