The knots in which troubled couples find themselves, from hurt feelings to entrenched defensiveness, blaming, and stonewalling, are often bewildering, disorienting, and painful, both to the couples themselves and to those who attempt to help them. These knots defy the depth of caring and importance intimate partners feel for one another and are resistant to […]
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This book examines productive and unproductive ways of acting in the presence of bigoted activities. In a world in crisis with masses of individuals feeling alone and unsupported, faulty projecting processes are everywhere to be seen. A prime example is bigotry. With social conditions promoting high personal arousal, on the one hand, and low levels […]
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A legacy Gestalt teacher and a co-founder of the Gestalt Institute of Cleveland, Joseph lives on Cape Cod, MA and continues to teach and train around the world. In this volume, Joseph shares stories and learning from a remarkable lifetime reaching from childhood survival in Holocaust-era Poland to an influential international career which has left […]
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Volume I in the Esalen Evolution of Gestalt Series, Co-Creating the Field lays out a paradigm shift that re-grounds in our human story in evolutionary psychology and contemporary neuroscience, viewed through the lens of relational Gestalt theory. The clarifications of theory and method brought out in the chapters of the book provide the base for […]
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Relational Child, Relational Brain is Volume II in the Evolution of Gestalt Series. It continues the development of the paradigm shift that places human development in a field that is deeply complex and fundamentally one of interconnection, taking us away from the limiting view of us as separate individuals. The book builds on the foundations […]
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This is the first book published in English of Staemmler’s writings. It includes five of his most important papers that have had a strong influence on the evolution of Gestalt therapy in the last fifteen years. The book is divided into three sections. In the first section, Staemmler comprehensively explores and questions the traditional Gestalt […]
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In these groundbreaking new collections, the reader 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-ob, and from the clinical office or playroom to family settings, schools, institutions, and the community, […]
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In these groundbreaking new collections, the reader 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-ob, and from the clinical office or playroom to family settings, schools, institutions, and the community, […]
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In this path-breaking and provocative new treatment of some of the oldest dilemmas of psychology and relationship, Gordon Wheeler challenges that most basic tenet of the Western cultural tradition: the individual self. Characteristic of this self-model, which we inherit from as far back as the ancient Greeks, are our embedded yet pervasive ideas that the […]
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The silence surrounding the Holocaust continues to prevent healing – whether of the victims, Nazis, or the generations that followed them. The telling of the stories surrounding the Holocaust, all the stories – is essential if we are to understand what happened, recognize the part of human nature that allows such atrocities to occur, and […]
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