ABSTRACT
The Covid-19 emergency, in addition to the social and cultural changes of recent decades, has amplified the fragility of some couple relationships, accentuating pre-existing crises and affecting the growing number of separations. This contribution illustrates Gestalt mediation in two different separative situations: high conflict and low conflict. Referring to the recent developments of Gestalt therapy according to Spagnuolo Lobb and based on clinical practice, the authors explain the four steps of the Gestalt mediative process. It considers the separative situation as an experiential field to take care of. Gestalt mediation, proposed here, stands out for its particular attention to reciprocity between parents and children and between children. In the two clinical cases, it is highlighted how the recovery of the ground of the parental experience becomes the specific care that helps children and parents go through the travail of separation. The work shows that the separative experience can be considered one of the possible evolutionary stages of the family life cycle from which a new relational process originates.
