Guest Editorial: Surprise! A New Look at the Treatment of Schizophrenia from a Gestalt Therapy Perspective

Abstract

I title this editorial “Surprise!” in an attempt to convey some of the growing sense of wonder and happy discovery I felt as I read the five articles on schizophrenia appearing in this issue of Gestalt Review. They have been published by the research group at Loma Linda University (California) under the aegis of the late Todd Douglas Burley (1945–2014), to whose living memory they are dedicated. I started out a bit skeptical: “Why is a Gestalt therapy journal devoting an entire issue to schizophrenia?” As I continued to read, something shifted in my understanding, and I started to feel amazed and filled with hope. I like feeling amazed and filled with hope, so I continued reading. As the authors carefully and clearly described how to use basic