| Description |
1 online resource (373 pages) |
| Contents |
Introduction / Arthur Roberts -- A Contemporary Psychotherapy -- The Language of Experience -- Sensory Functioning in Psychotherapy -- Women in Therapy: a Gestalt Therapist's View -- Gestalt Therapy: Evolution and Application -- Therapy Without Resistance: Gestalt Therapy -- Escape from the Present -- Tight Therapeutic Sequences -- Every Person's Life is Worth a Novel -- The Therapeutic Power of Attention -- The Self in Action: A Gestalt Outlook -- Translating Theory into Practice: Martin Heidegger and Gestalt Therapy -- Commonality and Diversity in Gestalt Therapy -- In Memory of Carl Rogers: Great Men Cast Great Shadows -- Encounter in Community -- Eve's Daughters: The Forbidden Heroism of Women -- Individuality and Communality -- Beyond One to One -- It's Only the Most Recent Year of the Woman |
| Summary |
"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."--Jacket |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 366-371) |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Gestalt therapy.
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Gestalt Therapy
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PSYCHOLOGY -- Psychotherapy -- General.
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Gestalt therapy
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Polster, Miriam
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Roberts, Arthur
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| ISBN |
9781135061579 |
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1135061572 |
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