Gestalt therapy’s embodied styles

Abstract

"Abstract: This paper describes and gives concrete examples of five styles of working with body experience in the practice of Gestalt therapy. I discuss how body experience has been an integrated part of Gestalt therapy theory and practice from its inception, and quote a number of Gestalt therapy’s senior thinkers and teachers who have written about their distinct ways of working with body in their practices. Key words: action therapy, retroflecting, introjecting, relational, intersubjective, encountering the novel, awareness, directed movement, expressive movement, metaphor, touch."