ABSTRACT
The author's first degree was in English literature at Oxford, where he was always more interested in the characters he read about, than in finding smart answers to what critics had said. After that he wrote radio plays for the BBC, and for a time was on the management board of a vast psychiatric hospital, just before such places disappeared. It seems to him that all these events were part of his blind lurch toward Gestalt Therapy. Awareness, contact and response-ability were to me the key concepts to impart in training or therapy groups. The professional trend now is to integrate therapies, while the political or economic trend, at least in the UK, is rather the opposite, of funding manualized, apparently measurable approaches such as CBT. Tribal loyalty attracts the author to wanting the philosophy and much of the method of Gestalt Therapy to emerge into much wider recognition than it has now.
