ABSTRACT
This chapter offers an advance beyond the individualistic aspects of living. Instead, it provides new perspective on how the peoples all live together, forming many varieties of relationship. Today, 70 years after its birth, Gestalt therapy is still distorted by many slogans and stereotypes that prevent us from grasping its worldliness and interpersonal connectedness. It is much broader than the empty chair, which can be used selectively and must be introduced in a way that makes sense to the patient. The lines of progress in Gestalt therapy, especially on a relational level, move forward into a communal connectedness of people to each other in the everyday world. That is, individuality should not be overriding the community but rather, individuality should be indivisible from the community.
