How do children emotionally heal and regain equilibrium after suffering trauma? How do adults understand and help them in a therapeutic relationship? These questions are at the heart of Violet Oaklander’s approach to play therapy and her methods for training adults to work with children and adolescents. In this text, Peter Mortola uses qualitative and […]
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Couples therapy has long been regarded as one of the most demanding of all forms of psychotherapy because of the way it challenges therapists to combine insights of dynamic psychology with the power and clarity of systems dynamics. In this exciting new volume, Gordon Wheeler and Stephanie Backman, couples therapists with broad training and long […]
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This groundbreaking book presents a new model for working with survivors of abuse and other trauma. The Healing Tasks Model, based on developmental stages of healing with specific tasks for each stage, offers the clinician new support for threading through the sometimes overwhelming complexities of the survivor’s experience. At the same time, James I. Kepner’s […]
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Gestalt therapy enables dialogue across cultures, giving value difference, subjective experience, heritage, and context. Hence, it is a bridge across cultures, a bridge composed of mutual interests and, above all, of the conviction in the right of the other to exist. It is therefore a meeting place of differences. Culture is a fixed creative adjustment […]
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In this groundbreaking text, which has quickly become a classic in the field, James Kepner takes us beyond working “on the body,” to an exploration of body process itself: how we embody and carry our experiences physically and energetically, and how this embodiment colors and often limits future experience. For a decade now psychotherapists of […]
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Gestalt Therapy: Perspectives and Applications is a classic text which, when it was first released in 1992, signaled a renaissance of Gestalt scholarship throughout the world. In this volume, Edwin Nevis, one of the foremost Gestalt writers, thinkers, and practitioners of the last 40 years, skillfully draws together a diverse selection of essays from Gestat […]
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In this groundbreaking book, Michael Clemmens offers a new model of treatment for long-term recovery that goes beyond the traditional “disease’ paradigm. Working from the belief that a fuller life for the recovering addict is grounded on a foundation of abstinence, the author explores a “self-modulating” approach, which leads to a change in behavior from […]
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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 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 […]
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What determines whether stepfamilies remain together? What helps stepfamilies overcome the difficulties of remarriage and become mutually supportive family units? How can mental health professionals better support this development? This book brings both clarity and depth to the unique and complex dynamics of remarried families. Patricia Papernow draws on interviews with over one hundred stepfamily […]
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Shame and shame reactions are two of the most delicate and difficult issues of psychotherapy and are among the most likely to defy our usual dynamic, systemic, and behavioral theories. In this groundbreaking collection, The Voice of Shame, thirteen distinguished authors show how use of the Gestalt model of self and relationship can clarify the […]
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