Dave Mann

Gestalt Therapy (eBook, PDF)

100 Key Points and Techniques

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

Gestalt therapy offers a present-focused, relational approach, central to which is the fundamental belief that the client knows the best way of adjusting to their situation. This new edition of Gestalt Therapy: 100 Key Points and Techniques provides a concise, accessible guide to this flexible and far-reaching approach. Substantially updated throughout, topics discussed include:

• The theoretical assumptions underpinning gestalt therapy.



• Gestalt assessment and process diagnosis.



• Field theory, phenomenology and dialogue.



• Ethics and values.



• Evaluation and research.

As such this book will be essential reading for gestalt trainees, as well as all counsellors and psychotherapists wanting to learn more about the gestalt approach.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 370
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. September 2020
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781351656740
• Artikelnr.: 59949192

Autorenporträt

Dave Mann is a UKCP Registered Gestalt Psychotherapist, Supervisor and Trainer affiliated with the Metanoia Institute, Gestalt Psychotherapy Training Institute and Sherwood Psychotherapy Training Institute. He is also a former Assistant Editor of the British Gestalt Journal.

Inhaltsangabe

Part 1: Maps for a Gestalt Therapy Journey - Laying the Ground, Theoretical Assumptions
1. Gestalt Therapy: A Very Brief History
2. So, what is Gestalt?
3. And what is a Gestalt?
4. Gestalt Psychology's Laws of Perception
5. Figure and Ground
6. Awareness and The Awareness Continuum
7. Contact
8. The Here and Now
9. Creative Adjustment
10. Self and Selfing
11. Structures of The Self: Id, Ego and Personality Functions
12. Holism
13. Individualism and Field Paradigms
14. The Contact Boundary
15. The Gestalt Cycle of Experience
16. Resistances, Interruptions, Moderations to Contact
17. The process of Introjection
18. Ground Introjects
19. Retroflection
20. Projection
21. Confluence
22. Deflection
23. Desensitisation
24. Egotism/Self-Monitoring
25. Continuums of Contact
26. Creative Indifference
27. Unfinished Business: The Zeigarnik Effect
28. The Paradoxical Theory of Change
29. The Aesthetics of Gestalt Therapy
30. Support as 'That Which Enables'
Part 2: Beginning the Therapy Journey - Preparations and Initial Assessment
31. The Therapy Setting
32. Contracts and Expectations
33. Contact Functions - Making and Breaking Contact
34. Assessment and Process Diagnosis
35. How the Client "Bodies Forth"
36. Zones of Awareness
37. Emerging Relational Themes
38. Planning the Journey
39. Assessing Suicidal Risk
Part 3 The Therapy Journey - The Three Pillars of Gestalt
3.1 Exploring the client's situation or field
40. Situation, Field, Life-space, Life-world
41. Co-creation and Temporality
42. The Therapy Space as Present Situation
43. The Field Organises the Need and the Need Organises the Field
44. The Id of the Situation
45. Support in a Relational Field
46. Shame as a Function of the Field
47. Sensing into the Field
48. Viewing the Field through a Developmental Lens
49. Development - A Lifelong Process
50. Developmental Theory - Six Fundamental Movements
51. The Cultural Field
52. Five Explorations
53. Language and Metaphor
54. Attending to the Wider Field
3.2 Focus on Experience: Phenomenology in Gestalt Therapy
55. What is Phenomenology?
56. Phenomenological Enquiry
57. Intentionality: Reaching Out to my World
58. Transcendental Phenomenology and Husserl
59. The Discipline of Phenomenological Reduction
60. Existential Phenomenology
61. Intersubjectivity
62. Attending to the Bodily 'Felt Sense'
63. Energy and Vitality
64. The Lived Body
65. Perceiving the Whole
66. Liminal Space
3.3 Dialogue - Emerging through Relationship
67. What is Dialogue?
68. I-Thou and I-It Relating
69. The Between
70. Inclusion and Empathy
71. Presence
72. Confirmation
73. Commitment to Dialogue
74. Attunement
75. Enduring Relational Themes
76. Self-Disclosure
77. The Relational Turn
78. Rupture and Repair
79. Living the Relationship
Part 4: Becoming - Transitions along the Journey
80. Gestalt Experimentation
81. Experimentation and Challenge
82. Experimental Methods
83. Polarities and the Top Dog/Under Dog
84. Two Chairs and the Empty Chair
85. Homework and Practicing
86. Dreamwork
87. Catharsis and Release
88. Aggressing on the Environment
89. Working with Trauma
90. Phases in Therapy and Endings
91. Developing Awareness of Awareness
Part 5: Ethics and Values: Key Signposts for All Journeys
92. Therapeutic Boundaries
93. Relational Ethics
94. Therapeutic Use of Touch
95. Non-Exploitation
96. Therapist Support
97. Gestalt Supervision
Part 6: Evaluating the Approach: Destination and Looking Back
98. Gestalt Applications beyond 1:1 and Group therapy
99. Looking Back and Reviewing
100. On Uncertainty and Certainty