ABSTRACT
We carry the history of our relationships in our bodies. As layer upon layer of creative adjustments are updated or remain outdated, relational patterns and themes reveal themselves. Person and environment define one another in relationship and as they define one another the degree of bodying forth and the style of that bodying forth form. In working with body-oriented, situational methodology gestalt therapists fly in the face of the prevailing western cultural worldview. The creation of an embodied field is essential to the work of a body-oriented therapy such as gestalt. Supporting the client’s development of their body process and their self-experience and using body-oriented methodology for effecting psychotherapeutic change all requires such a supportive field. Such an approach challenges current social trends in which virtual contact can replace actual contact and medication can be used to quell or lift unpleasant emotions without consideration for their meaning.
