{"title":"‘This is an emergency’ – proposals for a collective response to the climate crisis","authors":"Steffi Bednarek","doi":"10.53667/pfhh8985","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.53667/pfhh8985","url":null,"abstract":"\"Abstract: Earlier this year the UK Government declared a climate emergency. More and more organisations have followed suit, including local councils, universities and some businesses. What does this mean for the psychotherapy profession and how do we meet the threat that is at the heart of the phenomenal field itself? Can we continue with business as usual or do we need to change the figure in conditions that fundamentally change the ground that we have taken for granted? This article explores the threshold moment that we find ourselves in, gives an overview of the current thinking on eco-anxiety, solastalgia and the trauma responses that are connected with the demise of our ecosystem. It proposes that we find ourselves in a malignant state of normality and suggests that we urgently need to develop ways to re-ensoul the culture that is costing us the Earth. It tentatively explores the conditions that may be needed to develop a psychology of the environment and proposes a practical starting point – namely for the international Gestalt community to declare a climate emergency and to attend to the phenomenal field itself. Keywords: climate emergency, eco-anxiety, solastalgia, trauma field, denial, disavowal, shame, soul rebellion, re-wilding, re-ensouling of culture, a psychology of the environment, the ecological self.\"","PeriodicalId":103162,"journal":{"name":"British Gestalt Journal","volume":"5 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128359501","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Roberta La Rosa, S. Tosi, Michele Settanni, Margherita Spagnuolo Lobb, G. Francesetti
{"title":"The outcome research in Gestalt therapy: the Italian CORE-OM research project","authors":"Roberta La Rosa, S. Tosi, Michele Settanni, Margherita Spagnuolo Lobb, G. Francesetti","doi":"10.53667/equd9941","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.53667/equd9941","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract: This paper describes a three-year research project with CORE-OM (Clinical Outcome Routine Evaluation – Outcome Measure) and illustrates the results of the evaluation of the clinical outcome of psychotherapy in clients undergoing psychotherapeutic process with the Gestalt method within the National Organisation of Gestalt Therapy (NOGT), and the Italian Society of Gestalt Psychotherapy (SIPG). The data was gathered using CORE-OM. The study is an example of a practice-oriented research in Gestalt therapy because it introduces a widely used quantitative method to evaluate the clinical outcome of psychotherapy (CORE-OM) as an integral part of clinical work in a relational approach. The authors have repeated within the Italian Gestalt community a similar study conducted in the UK in 2011 and compared both findings. Results indicate that Gestalt therapy has been effective in improving the condition of clients, with an effect size comparable to those that were observed in similar studies conducted in other countries and with different modalities. Keywords: Gestalt therapy, treatment effectiveness, outcome research, CORE-OM, long- term psychotherapy.","PeriodicalId":103162,"journal":{"name":"British Gestalt Journal","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130788317","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Dialogue analysis of a filmed Gestalt therapy session: an introduction to a method","authors":"Nicole Chew-Helbig","doi":"10.53667/bidb8632","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.53667/bidb8632","url":null,"abstract":"\"Abstract: Psychotherapy process research takes us beyond answering the question, ‘does psychotherapy work?’ This area of research aims to study the hows and whats that happen within the psychotherapeutic session that potentiate change. The psychotherapeutic dialogue is an important source of data for psychotherapy process research. Micro- analyses of dialogical turns within the therapeutic session support the understanding of the therapeutic method. This paper introduces the Helbig Method of Dialogue Analysis. This method is founded upon four pillars: 1) that dialogue is implicit action between persons that is supported by explicit verbally uttered content; 2) that the individual’s mode of interaction within the dialogical dyad reflects the person’s relationship patterns; 3) that dialogue is an intersubjective process that leads to the development of new intersubjective configurations; and 4) that the observer-researcher’s phenomenological involvement plays a part in the analytical process. In this study, Bob Resnick’s video-recorded Gestalt therapy session entitled ‘A Rose on the Grave of my Family’ was selected. The transcription of the session was coded using the instrument, the Core Conflictual Relationship Theme – Leipzig/Ulm. Results obtained from this study are quantified graphical representations of the developing relationship between therapist and client. Simple to operate, scalable and practical, this method is designed for use by therapists and researchers who are interested in tracking, comparing and/or contrasting the developing psychotherapeutic alliance in a single or in multiple psychotherapy sessions. Keywords: psychotherapy process research, dialogue analysis, psychotherapeutic alliance, Gestalt therapy.\"","PeriodicalId":103162,"journal":{"name":"British Gestalt Journal","volume":"17 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125207533","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"From roundabout to seesaw: Gestalt therapists working with partners of people who suffer with addiction","authors":"David Darvasi","doi":"10.53667/usyx4567","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.53667/usyx4567","url":null,"abstract":"\"Abstract: As a practising Gestalt counsellor, I noticed that I had an increasing number of clients who are not misusing substances themselves but are partners of people who do. I was struck by how little dialogue there is around this generally in the field of counselling and psychotherapy. The main support available to partners of people with addictions is support groups, but there is little understanding or consensus on how they may be understood and best supported in the counselling room. A UK-based research group contrasted six different perspectives on understanding the dynamic between partner and substance- misusing other, which were co-dependency, psychodynamic, systems, stress-coping, feminist, and community (Velleman, Copello and Maslin, 1998). Looking at this from a Gestalt therapy theory perspective has generally remained unexplored. This small-scale research paper is a result of dialogues I had with three Gestalt therapists who have had experience supporting a partner of a person who suffers with addiction. An overarching image emerged out of these conversations which I will use to describe the process these Gestalt therapists have gone through with their clients, in the hope of initiating dialogue around this, in and outside of the Gestalt community. Keywords: co-dependency, affected family members (AFMs), addiction, Gestalt therapy, Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis (IPA), confluence, creative indifference.\"","PeriodicalId":103162,"journal":{"name":"British Gestalt Journal","volume":"18 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125768458","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Vincent Béjà, O. Glanzer, G. Francesetti, Alexander Lommatzsch, Rosanna Biasi, Ebert Carillo, K. Khlomov, Alessandra Merizzi, Hermann Schreck
{"title":"Gestalt en el mundo: notes from around the world on the state of Gestalt therapy and research by participants in the IV International Gestalt Research Conference, Santiago, Chile, 2019","authors":"Vincent Béjà, O. Glanzer, G. Francesetti, Alexander Lommatzsch, Rosanna Biasi, Ebert Carillo, K. Khlomov, Alessandra Merizzi, Hermann Schreck","doi":"10.53667/ekbz2185","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.53667/ekbz2185","url":null,"abstract":"At the IV Gestalt Research Conference, held in Santiago, Chile (29 May–1 June 2019), participants shared information about Gestalt therapy and research from their respective countries. We thought it was so interesting to hear about the practice of Gestalt and the state of Gestalt therapy research around the world that we have published some of these contributions in this issue and hope to include more in forthcoming issues. The reports are arranged in alphabetical order by country and each represents the informed, personal perspective of the writer.","PeriodicalId":103162,"journal":{"name":"British Gestalt Journal","volume":"309 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131143703","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Statistician meets practitioner/researcher: a response to Dominic Hosemans","authors":"M. Fogarty","doi":"10.53667/ohfn5344","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.53667/ohfn5344","url":null,"abstract":"The GTFS is a measure developed by Fogarty et al. (2015, 2016, 2019a, 2019b) that has been demonstrated to have scientifically robust content validity, face validity, criterion validity and reliability (Fogarty et al., 2019a). There are many ways to develop a fidelity scale for treatment adherence. The choices made in developing the GTFS were made under the supervision of a professor of psychology with extensive experience in scale development. The research used to develop the GTFS was then reviewed by, and accepted for publication in, the leading academic journal in the field, Psychotherapy Research (PR). This is the first time that an article about Gestalt therapy (GT) has ever been published in that journal; esteemed Gestalt colleagues have previously published in PR, but have not been able to refer to the modality as Gestalt (because of the lack of a scientific basis for Gestalt). So Hosemans’ claim that the GTFS is ‘a seemingly invalid, unreliable, and ineffective scale’ is both at odds with the views of the academic reviewers for PR; and, as the word ‘seemingly’ betrays, an assertion based on conjecture. It would take scientific research to determine whether and how the GTFS might be improved to reflect more holistically the phenomenological foundations of GT.","PeriodicalId":103162,"journal":{"name":"British Gestalt Journal","volume":"45 2","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"120864683","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Measuring Gestalt therapy: a critique of the Gestalt Therapy Fidelity Scale","authors":"Dominic Hosemans","doi":"10.53667/ctoi2211","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.53667/ctoi2211","url":null,"abstract":"\"Abstract: The GTFS is a 21-item measure developed by Fogarty et al. (2015, 2016, 2019) in order to measure therapist behaviours representative of Gestalt therapy (GT). The scale itself was developed as a step towards achieving evidence-based practice. It is essential that the scale can demonstrate its scientific robustness and hold up against thorough critique. The current paper offers a comprehensive critique of the scale, from the use of a fidelity scale in GT, to the scale’s initial development as well as the structure and utility of the scale. Herein a number of problems are identified and discussed, undermining the scale’s validity and reliability. For instance, theoretical inconsistency can be identified between the fidelity scale and the philosophical underpinning of GT coupled with a lack of rigour in the scientific process leading to the general nature of items. Although some validity analyses show promise for the scale, these have been performed in the absence of determining the soundness of the scale’s internal structure. Such a critique has great importance, considering the GTFS has the potential to influence future Gestalt research, therapy and supervision. Recommendations are made in order to proceed with the aim of establishing GT as an evidence-based practice. Keywords: Gestalt Therapy Fidelity Scale (GTFS), critique, scale development, evidence- based practice.\"","PeriodicalId":103162,"journal":{"name":"British Gestalt Journal","volume":"37 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"117144760","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"How wide is the field? Gestalt therapy, capitalism and the natural world","authors":"Steffi Bednarek","doi":"10.53667/frol5382","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.53667/frol5382","url":null,"abstract":"\"Abstract: A recent UN report has warned that we are heading for an unprecedented global crisis if we do not radically change our ways. Climate change is no longer a hypothetical argument but a reality that threatens the existence of human and other-than-human life on the planet. With that information in mind, can we afford to keep practising psychotherapy with a focus on the individual and their personal needs, or do we need to radically question the role of psychotherapy in its lack of relationship to the more-than-human world? This article investigates where aspects of Gestalt psychotherapy may be too closely aligned with the capitalist paradigm, that risks costing us the Earth. I argue that we need to widen our notion of what is part of the field. I reflect on our theory in relation to anthropocentrism, individuality, materiality, privatisation, growth, progress and the lack of a cosmological perspective. This is by no means an exhaustive overview but an attempt to open the conversation. Keywords: capitalism, complex systems, ‘more-than-human world’, anthropocentrism, individuality, materialism, systemic change, mythology, cosmology.\"","PeriodicalId":103162,"journal":{"name":"British Gestalt Journal","volume":"376 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132000556","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"But who is the client? Continuing a dialogue with Lynne Jacobs","authors":"Peter Philippson","doi":"10.53667/swxa5500","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.53667/swxa5500","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":103162,"journal":{"name":"British Gestalt Journal","volume":"99 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"117240458","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Reorganisation in a traumatised relational field: the well-grounded therapist","authors":"Miriam Taylor, V. A. Duff","doi":"10.53667/auio8641","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.53667/auio8641","url":null,"abstract":"\"Abstract: Being in the natural world is widely understood as having a beneficial effect, and experience of place resonates deeply (Jordan and Hinds, 2016). This effect and the potential of nature as an integral element of therapists’ self-care warrant attention and exploration through a Gestalt lens. The authors’ curiosity about this relationship and its application to trauma work led them to experiment with direct and creative contact with the natural world. Here, we set out to do three things: to provide a theoretical context and rationale; to articulate the ways in which Gestalt thinking informs our approach; and to illustrate the transformative potential of this area of work. We make links between the literature and practices of ecopsychology/psychotherapy and Gestalt theory, principles and practice. We incorporate storytelling and conversation to illuminate embodied enquiry, intentionally situating the presence of our ‘selves’ as participant observers and co-authors. We draw reflexively on aspects of practice to illustrate the core thesis and the concept of ‘the well- grounded therapist’ noting that there are implications for therapists’ practices of self-care. Whilst placing a clear emphasis on trauma work in this article, the central argument is about the ethics and value of self-care as a dialogic relationship inclusive of nature, therapist and client, and is applicable to a wide range of therapeutic work and settings. Keywords: contact, dialogue, embodiment, ethic, field, natural world, self-care, regeneration, senses, trauma.\"","PeriodicalId":103162,"journal":{"name":"British Gestalt Journal","volume":"30 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121420837","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}