Gestalt Therapy Around the World

Herausgegeben von O'Leary, Eleanor

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Produktbeschreibung

Gestalt Therapy Around the World is an essential guide to how gestalt therapy is researched, developed, and practiced internationally. The text provides an overview of the development and practice of gestalt therapy in over fifteen countries, including the US, UK, Japan, and New Zealand. It explores the theory, practice, research, and training necessary to provide trainees with a comprehensive international perspective on this therapy. Each chapter focuses on gestalt therapy in a particular country, reviewing local history of the therapy, contributions to research, training initiatives, and gestalt organizations and societies.

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The first internationally focused book on gestalt therapy to provide a comprehensive overview of current practice around the world.

Features coverage of the history, training, theoretical contributions, and research initiatives relating to gestalt therapy in seventeen countries
Points to future directions and challenges
Includes extensive information on worldwide gestalt associations, institutes, and professional societies that promote the development of the approach

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Wiley & Sons / Wiley-Blackwell
• 1. Auflage
• Seitenzahl: 390
• Erscheinungstermin: Mai 2013
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 226mm x 152mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 499g
• ISBN-13: 9780470699379
• ISBN-10: 047069937X
• Artikelnr.: 35451447

Autorenporträt

During her career, Professor Eleanor O'Leary has authored a number of innovative books including New Approaches to Integration in Psychotherapy in 2006.The outcome ofher research has also been published in a number of leading academic journals. She was Professor and Head of the Department of Applied Psychology, University College Cork, Ireland and Visiting Professor at Stanford University, USA. She is currently a Visiting Professor at the University of Malaga, Spain. She is also accreditations officer of the European Institute of Integrative Psychotherapy, and Honorary Life Chairperson of the Irish Gestalt Society. A practicing psychotherapist and supervisor, Professor O'Leary is also a Fellow of the Psychological Society of Ireland and in 2000 received its Special Award for Outstanding Contribution to Psychology. Her varied career has given her a unique insight into the development and application of gestalt therapy.

Inhaltsangabe

Contributors xi Preface xvii Acknowledgments xxi Part One: Gestalt Therapy:
Its Beginning, Theory, and Techniques 1 1 Fritz Perls and Gestalt Therapy:
The Beginnings 3 Eleanor O'Leary 2 Key Concepts of Gestalt Therapy and
Processing 15 Eleanor O'Leary 3 Dialogue and Contact 37 Eleanor O'Leary 4
Techniques, Experiments, and Dreams 61 Eleanor O'Leary Part Two: Gestalt
Therapy Around the World 93 Europe 94 5 Gestalt Therapy in Austria 95 Nancy
Amendt-Lyon 6 Gestalt Therapy in Britain 113 Peter Philippson 7 History of
Gestalt Therapy in Denmark 127 Jan Tønnesvang, Mikael Sonne, and James
Hammink 8 Gestalt Therapy in Finland 135 Walter Arnold 9 Dawn of Gestalt
Therapy in France 141 Serge Ginger 10 Gestalt Therapy in Germany 151 Almut
Ladisich-Raine 11 Gestalt Therapy in Greece 165 Despina Balliou, Katia
Hatzilakou, Antonia Konstantinidou, and YiannaYiamarelou 12 Gestalt Therapy
in the Republic of Ireland 177 Eleanor O'Leary 13 Gestalt Therapy in Italy
195 Margherita Spagnuolo Lobb The Middle East 211 14 Gestalt Therapy in
Israel 213 Nurith Levi and Shraga Serok Asia 220 15 Gestalt Therapy in
Japan 221 Yoshiya Kurato Australasia 233 16 Gestalt Therapy in Australia
235 Brian O'Neill 17 Gestalt Development in New Zealand: An Antipodean
Approach 251 Anne Maclean The Americas 265 18 Gestalt Therapy in the
Province of Quebec, Canada: From its Flourishing Days to its Phase of
Questioning and its Perspective of Challenges for the Future 267 Janine
Corbeil 19 Gestalt Therapy in the United States of America 289 Joseph
Melnick 20 Gestalt Therapy in Argentina 305 Myriam Sas Guiter 21 Gestalt
Therapy in Chile 317 Francisco Huneeus Part Three: Reviewing the Past and
Moving Onwards 325 22 The Present and Future of International Gestalt
Therapy 327 Eleanor O'Leary Conclusion 333 Eleanor O'Leary Appendix 1.
Worldwide Gestalt Associations, Institutes, and Professional Societies 335
Denis O'Sullivan Index 365