ABSTRACT
The concept of psychopathology has been revisited from a “situational” point of view. From this perspective, it is the “situation”, not the single individual, that causes a state of suffering to emerge. Attention to the neurobiological basis is paid but accompanied by an appropriate use of the phenomenological method, which blunts the risks of reductionism always lying in wait in the behavioural neurosciences. The editors have intended to celebrate the 70th year of publication of the book Gestalt Therapy by rereading the foundations of this method in a relational key, and it seems to the author that this goal has been fully realised, with the aid, as well, of the illuminating comments of two elders of Gestalt psychotherapy, such as Erving Polster and Gary Yontef.
