ABSTRACT

As therapists our aim is to put ourselves out of business – for the client to move on and build their own on-going support in relation to their situation. So what is self-therapy from a gestalt perspective? We have seen that self emerges at the contact boundary and forms in contact with the environment. In healthy relating there is a fluid flow in our ever-changing process of selfing. It follows that what is needed in on-going self-therapy is something that supports a spontaneous energetic flow between the organism and the environment.