ABSTRACT

This book is a collection of articles written in the period 1985–2011. The articles form a background for perspectives that concern the foundations of Gestalt therapy: foundations in philosophy and foundations in psychoanalysis and connections with other therapeutic theories.

part I|49 pages

Roots in Philosophy

part II|60 pages

Roots in Psychoanalysis and Connections with Other Theories

chapter 9|9 pages

Gestalt and drive theory *

chapter 10|11 pages

A Gestalt approach to transference *

chapter 11|10 pages

Gestalt and regression *

chapter 12|10 pages

Notes for a book on the id

chapter 13|6 pages

On yelling and bashing cushions *

chapter 14|10 pages

Gestalt therapy and Morita therapy *

part III|133 pages

Roots in Gestalt Foundational Theory

chapter 15|21 pages

Gestalt in Britain: a polemic *

chapter 17|9 pages

Introjection revisited

chapter 18|4 pages

Pseudo-introjection *

chapter 20|11 pages

The experience of shame *

chapter 21|10 pages

Field theory: mirrors and reflections *

chapter 22|11 pages

Two theories of five layers *

chapter 23|13 pages

Body and character as a field event

chapter 25|3 pages

I, thou, and us *

chapter 26|9 pages

Individual therapy as group therapy *

chapter 27|5 pages

Why shouldn’t we interrupt? *