ABSTRACT
In a dialogic relationship with another we readily recognise that there are two realities but there is also a third reality that emerges in the between of that relationship. There has been a shift in gestalt and psychotherapy over the past thirty years from interest in a one-person psychology, looking at intra-psychic processes, to a two-person psychology that explores the between of the therapeutic relationship. What emerges in the meeting amidst this complex matrix will change both the therapist and the client, the degree of change will be dictated by how permeable or impermeable their contact boundaries are. What happens between client and therapist will depend, amongst other factors, upon the therapeutic philosophy of the gestalt therapist. Amongst relational gestalt therapists, 'There is an emphasis on support rather than challenge with a greater tolerance of confluence'.
