ABSTRACT
Fritz Perls' expression "now and how" seems better than the classic expression "here and now", which is far from being specific to Gestalt. In fact, many other methods focus on the "here and now" process: the Rogerian approach, the main group psychotherapies and even psychoanalysis since it works above all on transference, which is supposed to reproduce infantile neurosis "here and now". Thus, the process remains foremost: the therapist and his client remain above all vigilant and attentive to the fluctuations of the relationship which is developing "here and now". Goodman's basic work on Gestalt Therapy based on Perls' notes, starts with these two words. Perls, in The Gestalt Approach takes up this idea again: "The study of the way the human being functions in his environment is the study at the boundary between the individual and his environment. Mental and social "health" finds its expression in a permanent "creative adjustment" at the "contact-boundary" between organism and environment.
