ABSTRACT

With In Search of Good Form, Joseph Zinker emphasizes seeing and being with as keys to a phenomenological approach in which therapist and patient co-create and mutually articulate their own experiences and meanings. He considers Gestalt field theory, the Gestalt interactive cycle, and Gestalt concepts.

part One|164 pages

Theory

chapter 1|23 pages

Our Common Ground

chapter 2|17 pages

In Search of Good Form

chapter 4|26 pages

The Interactive Cycle

chapter 5|25 pages

Awareness and Change

chapter 6|31 pages

Resistances to Contact

chapter 7|20 pages

Boundaries and Boundary Management

part Two|139 pages

Practice

chapter 8|40 pages

Intervening in Couple Systems

chapter 9|37 pages

Intervening in Family Systems

chapter 10|15 pages

Lying and Truthfulness in Intimate Systems

chapter 11|15 pages

Loss, Grief, and the Use of Ritual