Gestalt ReviewPub Date : 2024-04-01DOI: 10.5325/gestaltreview.28.1.0013
Ruella Frank
{"title":"Therapy During Wartime: A Case Study","authors":"Ruella Frank","doi":"10.5325/gestaltreview.28.1.0013","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5325/gestaltreview.28.1.0013","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 The following case vignette exemplifies how the terror of war can divide even the closest of communities, compatriots, colleagues, friends, families, and uproots our very notion of who we are and who we will become. A shared powerlessness is the very place where this therapist and patient meet—a place of surrendering to the overwhelming losses that are already here and that trumpet losses soon to come. The condition for healing for both therapist and patient is found in each partner’s capacity to be with another, and all that spontaneously moves through them. Staying close to her moving-sensing experiences, the therapist offers herself as possible steady ground for the patient, who eventually reciprocates in kind. The therapist learns as much about herself in the exchange as the patient and most probably more. How could it be otherwise?","PeriodicalId":444860,"journal":{"name":"Gestalt Review","volume":"1228 ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140774438","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}
Gestalt ReviewPub Date : 2024-04-01DOI: 10.5325/gestaltreview.28.1.0094
Peter Cole
{"title":"Paths of Curiosity: Time, Uncertainty and Mortality","authors":"Peter Cole","doi":"10.5325/gestaltreview.28.1.0094","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5325/gestaltreview.28.1.0094","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":444860,"journal":{"name":"Gestalt Review","volume":"377 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140791721","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}
Gestalt ReviewPub Date : 2024-04-01DOI: 10.5325/gestaltreview.28.1.0054
Margherita Spagnuolo Lobb
{"title":"Gestalt Therapy Research: Developing a Phenomenological, Aesthetic, Field-Oriented Approach","authors":"Margherita Spagnuolo Lobb","doi":"10.5325/gestaltreview.28.1.0054","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5325/gestaltreview.28.1.0054","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 The author proposes a frame of reference for Gestalt therapists who want to do research from a field perspective. She outlines fundamental aspects of phenomenological research that includes aesthetics of contact and the relational therapeutic approach. Ethical aspects of Gestalt therapy research, from the need of outcome research to the responsibility to show what we do in our practice, are described, in support of the discovery of new territories to advance our humanity. Two examples are offered: research on the construct of aesthetic relational knowing (ARK) to explore therapeutic intuition and responsiveness from a Gestalt viewpoint, and research to describe the process of change in the dyad therapist/client, seen as a “dance” of reciprocal, intentional movements that draws on attachment learnings.","PeriodicalId":444860,"journal":{"name":"Gestalt Review","volume":"199 ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140769098","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}
Gestalt ReviewPub Date : 2024-04-01DOI: 10.5325/gestaltreview.28.1.0087
E. R. Hochman, Mark C. Johnson
{"title":"Fundamentals of Phenomenological Gestalt Psychopathology: A Light Introduction","authors":"E. R. Hochman, Mark C. Johnson","doi":"10.5325/gestaltreview.28.1.0087","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5325/gestaltreview.28.1.0087","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":444860,"journal":{"name":"Gestalt Review","volume":"62 7","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140791583","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}
Gestalt ReviewPub Date : 2024-04-01DOI: 10.5325/gestaltreview.28.1.0024
Tomáš Andrášik, Nela Gruntová Wurmová, Barbora Krčmářová
{"title":"IMPROVing Spontaneity: Gestalt Therapy Perspective on Improvisational Theater as a Therapeutical Intervention","authors":"Tomáš Andrášik, Nela Gruntová Wurmová, Barbora Krčmářová","doi":"10.5325/gestaltreview.28.1.0024","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5325/gestaltreview.28.1.0024","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 This article outlines the theoretical background for improv-therapeutical processes and interventions found in the contemporary theory of the Gestalt therapeutic approach. Although there is a growing number of studies reporting on the potential of improvisational theater in psychological well-being and psychotherapy, few of them explore theoretical parallels with existing psychotherapeutic approaches. This article proposes that the roots and paradigms of improv theater and Gestalt therapy are epistemologically close and explore how concepts specific for relational Gestalt therapy—understanding of self as a process in the phenomenological intersubjective field, an aesthetic approach to mental health, and the notion of creative adjustment—could contribute to the understanding and empowering of the therapeutic processes found in improv theater. The theory proposes that nurturing creative and spontaneous processes in improv possibly contributes to the healthy functioning of the self and, therefore, enhances healthy contact with the environment.","PeriodicalId":444860,"journal":{"name":"Gestalt Review","volume":"416 3","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140780529","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}
Gestalt ReviewPub Date : 2024-04-01DOI: 10.5325/gestaltreview.28.1.0001
Jack Aylward
{"title":"The Health of Aggression","authors":"Jack Aylward","doi":"10.5325/gestaltreview.28.1.0001","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5325/gestaltreview.28.1.0001","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 This article attempts to reestablish the importance of human aggression as a figural cornerstone in both the origin and practice of Gestalt therapy. Attention is paid to the early contributions of Frederick Perls in reformulating psychoanalytic theory with respect to what he considered to be the primacy of aggression over sexuality in terms of human growth and development. Distinctions are made between what would be considered “healthy” versus “unhealthy” applications of aggression within the maturation cycle of the organism, its social functioning, and the effective practice of Gestalt therapy. Problems related to the definition and application of aggressive expression are discussed through Gestalt-related literature and differences noted in more contemporary research. Practitioners of the Gestalt approach are encouraged to review the relevant literature as a way of revisiting and refreshening their understanding of the clinical importance of aggression in the practice of Gestalt therapy.","PeriodicalId":444860,"journal":{"name":"Gestalt Review","volume":"130 ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140763547","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}
Gestalt ReviewPub Date : 2024-04-01DOI: 10.5325/gestaltreview.28.1.0098
Susan L. Fischer, Julianne Appel-Opper
{"title":"Beyond Trauma. Has Clinical Practice Been Reduced to “Psycho-Traumatology”? Afterthoughts and Impressions on an International Conference","authors":"Susan L. Fischer, Julianne Appel-Opper","doi":"10.5325/gestaltreview.28.1.0098","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5325/gestaltreview.28.1.0098","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":444860,"journal":{"name":"Gestalt Review","volume":"168 ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140783792","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}
Gestalt ReviewPub Date : 2023-04-01DOI: 10.5325/gestaltreview.27.1.0056
P. Tucker
{"title":"Enhancing Dialogue about Cultural Difference through Gestalt Group Work Theory and Practice","authors":"P. Tucker","doi":"10.5325/gestaltreview.27.1.0056","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5325/gestaltreview.27.1.0056","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 Gestalt therapy groups hold a unique potential to enhance our cultural understanding of one another through the use of communication structures that create and maintain the conditions for authentic dialogue and provide a safe container for group participants. This article details aspects of Gestalt theory that support the development of a broader sociocultural lens through modeling and teaching communication guidelines that help to facilitate groups. Group members are supported in reaching toward dialogue as they strive to gain a deeper meeting with the cultural other.","PeriodicalId":444860,"journal":{"name":"Gestalt Review","volume":"32 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124842734","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}