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{"title":"Change and Immunity to Change: Personal and Political","authors":"Peter F. Mullen","doi":"10.5325/gestaltreview.27.2.0148","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5325/gestaltreview.27.2.0148","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT The article explores how constructive developmental theory may explain the origin of the current political crisis and provide a long-term solution. Two levels of adult development rely on fundamentally different sources to make meaning. Each views its own way of meaning-making as correct and others as inauthentic. The lack of a common ground for dialogue has caused “epistemic chaos” and a seemingly intractable political stalemate dangerous to democracy. The first step toward a solution is to understand the problem and the resistance to change. The second is to provide lifelong, experiential education to foster human development. In the work world, deliberately developmental education is already occurring more widely than commonly realized, with encouraging results.","PeriodicalId":499147,"journal":{"name":"Gestalt review","volume":"65 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135654947","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":"Emergent Certainty and the Limits of Uncertainty: Expressing Certainty in a Gestalt Paradigm","authors":"Chris O’Malley","doi":"10.5325/gestaltreview.27.2.0169","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5325/gestaltreview.27.2.0169","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT The expression of certainty within a Gestalt clinical praxis has been unhelpfully discouraged. Expressing certainty has been aligned with abuses of power, while maintaining uncertainty has become a shibboleth of Gestalt thinking. This is theoretically unsound and potentially therapist-privileging, contributing to an amoral practitioner neutrality rather than an implicated, ethical responsibility. From a specific clinical encounter in which certainty is expressed, a basis is built to support how a Gestalt access to certainty might be understood and achieved with regard to knowledge and truth, beyond irrelevant imperatives of being right, or of implying permanence. Certainty is conceptualized to befit Gestalt’s field-theoretical paradigm, and the key theory of creative indifference is employed to critique the unipolar prioritizing of uncertainty. With support from Wittgenstein, it is argued that inhabiting certainty can demonstrate commitment and be an authentic manifestation of responsibility in a field paradigm, contributing to an ethical practice and a successful clinical outcome.","PeriodicalId":499147,"journal":{"name":"Gestalt review","volume":"98 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135655245","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":"Deepening Trauma Practice: A Gestalt Approach to Ecology and Ethics","authors":"Patricia Norris","doi":"10.5325/gestaltreview.27.2.0190","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5325/gestaltreview.27.2.0190","url":null,"abstract":"Miriam Taylor’s latest book was published during a time of global pandemic, climate emergency, cultural conflict, and resource inequality, so it is both timely and apposite. It is best read as a follow-up to her previous volume (2014), although readers new to the concepts discussed are provided with succinct summaries of the ideas underpinning the Gestalt approach and the neurobiological perspective on trauma. As Taylor readily acknowledges, many of her arguments are ones that have already been well-rehearsed in both Gestalt and non-Gestalt literature. The list of writers advocating an embodied, relational approach and a move away from an anthropocentric approach to an ecocentric one is long and distinguished. Yet, Taylor argues that psychotherapy practice and the structure of its provision frequently remain rooted in a Western, capitalist, individualist model.Adding her voice to those challenging this paradigm, Taylor urges us to make an “ecological turn” (4) and widen our understanding of not just the concept of trauma, but the embodied experience of it in our own lives. Foreground for her in this volume, she says, is the cultivation of “an embodied, almost second-nature felt sense” (9), in which theory is important but not necessarily figure. Complex and wide-ranging theoretical arguments calling for cognitive processing sit side by side with a demand to stop thinking and turn one’s focus to exploring embodied process. Accepting her invitation to leave temporarily the intellectual argument and prioritize embodied feelings rather than thoughts can be uncomfortable. Taylor’s metaphor of the Trickster aptly encapsulates the disorientation that ensues when habitual ways of thinking/seeing are disrupted, when everything is turned upside down and boundaries move. Trickster stories (Hyde 1983), retold at the beginning of each of the book’s three parts, speak to the way the disruptive intelligence of the Trickster expands the field and illuminates new perspectives. The image of a Möbius strip is used to illustrate the flow and connection between the shifting perspectives and experiences that we will be introduced to. In all three parts (Situating Trauma, The Space Between, and Ecological Perspectives), clinical examples and spaces for reflection encourage the reader to move from certainty to uncertainty, from cognitive understanding to felt experience. To facilitate the shift, the author continually moves among theoretical arguments, clinical examples, and practical experiments in a sequence described by Laura Perls (Rosenfeld 1988) thus: “First comes the awareness and then the de-automatizing and bringing it more into the foreground. . . and out of that develops experimentation in different directions” (22).In Part One (Situating Trauma), the focus is on raising awareness by contextualizing and exploring ways in which our society is organized around trauma. The evidence is all around us: migrant boats full of refugees, polarized and often violent pol","PeriodicalId":499147,"journal":{"name":"Gestalt review","volume":"42 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135655246","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":"Intimacy, Encounter, Tenderness . . .","authors":"Jean-Marie Robine","doi":"10.5325/gestaltreview.27.2.0115","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5325/gestaltreview.27.2.0115","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT I do not like using the concept of relationship. Too wide, too vague. Of course, I know that a relationship can be healing, and I also know that every psychopathology has been created by relationship. So, step by step, I try to explore some components of the therapeutic relationship, which could narrow our focus and contribute to unfolding and understanding what happens in this specific face to face encounter. Intimate is an interesting concept because it belongs to both the innermost and a special kind of close way of being together. Perhaps, encounter might be considered as an extension of our paradigm of contact, when contact rises and grows between two people. Love is often referred to, in our therapeutic context. Is it an appropriate reference? What about tenderness, which seems to designate better a therapeutic attitude that does not exclude confrontation or distance. A few tracks that need to be pursued.","PeriodicalId":499147,"journal":{"name":"Gestalt review","volume":"65 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135606738","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":"Exploring Masculinity, Sexuality, and Culture in Gestalt Therapy: An Autoethnography","authors":"Peter Cole","doi":"10.5325/gestaltreview.27.2.0188","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5325/gestaltreview.27.2.0188","url":null,"abstract":"Adam Kincel is a UK-based clinician, teacher, and researcher. His book Exploring Masculinity, Sexuality, and Culture in Gestalt Therapy contributes a unique integration of new research methodology (autoethnography), new philosophical influences (especially the work of Barad 2007), new concepts (such as collective gestalts), and new growth methodologies (such as working with large group experience to create dialogue around prejudice and hatred). His book is substantial in its breadth and depth and contains multiple layers of meaning and content. Kincel approaches his research and practice from a field-oriented, phenomenological perspective. Among his philosophical influences are the onto-epistemology of Barad, the phenomenology of Husserl and Merleau Ponty, the existentialism of Buber, and the dialogical approach of Gadamer.Key to Kincel’s integration is quantum physicist Barad’s (2007) concept of “agential intra-action.” Barad views phenomena from the perspective of “practice and actions.” Through the lens of practice and actions, we are simultaneously embedded in, and separate from, the relational matrix within which we exist. We are both connected and separate. This is a profoundly dialogical stance in which relationships—those between humans, those between humans and the natural world, and those that exist outside of human experience in the natural world—are at the core of reality. Barad’s is a process orientation in which all matter is interconnected, and those interconnections are at the heart of existence.In Kincel’s method, when a researcher studies phenomena in which they are embedded, for example, sexuality or culture, such research cannot be approached from the outside. Instead, the researcher endeavors to apply the discipline of creating separability or exteriority from within phenomena. Throughout this book, Kincel approaches his subjects concurrently from within and with exteriority. He is the observer and the observed, the one who acts and the one who is acted upon. Thus, his Gestalt therapy research is both highly personal and aimed broadly. The methodology he employs is “auto-ethnography.”Kincel explains that “auto-ethnography is a research methodology that focuses on personal memory as a valid source of knowledge” (114). In his analysis of masculinity, sexuality, and culture, he utilizes the tools of auto-ethnography, bringing forth his own experiences and personal narratives. He then uses ethnographic methodologies, such as interviews with family members, to situate his personal narrative in a field context, so that his personal experience helps illuminate our understanding of the constellation of issues being investigated: the development of sexuality, masculinity, and heteronormativity in the author’s cultural context, together with an exploration of the ways in which these issues are currently worked in Gestalt therapy. Along the way, he engages in valuable discussions related to the practice of Gestalt therapy. Among the man","PeriodicalId":499147,"journal":{"name":"Gestalt review","volume":"17 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135655243","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":"THERE AND HERE","authors":"Catherine Hatinguais","doi":"10.5325/gestaltreview.27.2.0207","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5325/gestaltreview.27.2.0207","url":null,"abstract":"Who are you,there,in the old forgotten land,still standing,still free,who everybody saidwould soon have to kneel?Yet there you are,holding,in blasted orchards,poisoned fields,and cities crushed to dust,holding.For behind the reawakened hordecomes a new harvest of sorrow,mangled neighbors,women, lately mute and flinching,children, vanished,come the butchering squads,and the blood-stained cellars,scratched walls, discarded tools,where someone tore the villagers apart,come torched libraries,and the long smothering.So once againtoilingin shattered woods,you meetthe heaving tides,and the flotsam thereafter,just beyond reach,crumpled brothersebbing fastin mud,in fire and rubble,captivessilencedby the taunting, savage blade,brothers in freedom,in daringand torment.Oh, what will you have becomeif you survivethis much witnessing?Who will you be when you walk home,once wrenched free,to the startling sweetness of apples,to tender hugsand public acclaim?And here we areon our comfortable couch,watching in disbeliefthe futureset ablaze,tumblinginto grief and fury.We remember now.We remember.Bewildered to draw strength,and sudden clarity,from your unfathomable bravery,and, yes,stoic grace,we recognize it now,the swaggering Empire,red claws and venom,under its golden cloak.We knowits history of lies,forgeries and slanders,its exultant cruelty,its cynical rebukes,yet we walk unsteadyin thiswasteland of malice.Here,we are fighting swarmsof giddy trolls, whores and hirelings,just to keep truth aliveagainst the hypnotic void,the encroaching tyranny.Just to keep faith with you,just to deserve your sacrifice.What will become of you if we fail?If we betray?What will become of usif you fall? May 2023I am deeply grateful to Cynthia Hogue for her keen reading of an earlier version of this poem, and for her generous feedback and encouragement which allowed me to get to this one.","PeriodicalId":499147,"journal":{"name":"Gestalt review","volume":"8 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135654946","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":"The Decline of the Self: <i>Est</i> and the Critique of Therapeutic Culture","authors":"Michael C. Fisher","doi":"10.5325/gestaltreview.27.2.0130","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5325/gestaltreview.27.2.0130","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Building on Fisher’s 2020 publication “Tearing Down the Self, or Transforming It? Est as Uncertain Gestalt,” this article tracks the emergence of a full-fledged critique of therapeutic culture, emanating from both American journalists and academic social critics in the mid-1970s. Since Erhard Seminars Training (est) and its founder, Werner Erhard, continued to attract media attention, it was often a focal point in this critique. While it drew on earlier criticisms of the human potential movement (HPM) that had centered on Frederick (Fritz) Perls, Esalen, and Gestalt therapy during the 1960s (detailed in Fisher’s 2017 “Gestalt Pathways of Dissemination, Part III: The Media Firestorm”), the 1970s critique of therapeutic culture branched into a wider mode of attack against both the founders and their legacies. Central to this critique was the concept of narcissism, which wedged itself in the pages of popular magazines and highbrow academic journals alike by 1976. In tracing this history, we see the roots of an ongoing cultural debate about the meaning and value of therapy, as well as the connections between individual pursuits of growth and the social conditions that frame them.","PeriodicalId":499147,"journal":{"name":"Gestalt review","volume":"16 1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135655242","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":"Seán Gaffney: An Appreciation of the Poet","authors":"Grace M. Burton","doi":"10.5325/gestaltreview.27.2.0203","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5325/gestaltreview.27.2.0203","url":null,"abstract":"As he stands before the masterpiece, the poet, a “wandering Paddy, a butcher’s son,” feels the gaze of the painter, who peeks out from behind his canvas, if only momentarily, to contemplate the scene in front of him, a 17th-century Spanish artist catching the eye of 21st-century bard, who had dropped by the museum for a visit one mid-September day. The painter is Diego de Velázquez. The painting is Las Meninas. The poet is Seán Gaffney. The poem is “Figure/Ground.”1Seán has come to see, of course, for that is what one does at an art museum. And Seán, like so many others in the Prado that day, has come to see Las Meninas. But one cannot merely see Las Meninas. Velázquez’s magnum opus resists passive reception. “I can see him looking at me still,” notes Seán. The roles have been reversed. It is not Seán who stares at Velázquez; it is Velázquez who stares at Seán as the painter extends himself across space and time, “[g]rabbing me,” says Seán in his muscular verse, “balls, guts, heart and head.” But now the final turn, the final act of defiance that becomes its own profound moment of co-creation, for Seán refuses to be subsumed by the painter’s gaze; he will instead respond in kind, “[j]oining you here again, dear Don Diego,” but “[t]his time seeing you see me.”The story is not over, however. The process of seeing entails the possibility of invisibility, and invisibility abounds in Las Meninas. What is Velázquez limning on the large canvas that dominates the entire left side of his painting? And whom does the artist see as he looks out into the space that lies beyond the picture frame? For the cultural critic Michel Foucault (1973, 8), it is the mirror on the back wall in which we see the reflected image of King Philip IV and his wife Mariana de Austria that “allows us to see, in the centre of the canvas, what in the painting is doubly invisible.” Foucault argues that the mirror allows the viewer to see what is on the canvas and what lies outside the painting. The king and queen, who have come to the artist’s studio to sit for an official portrait, are at once present and not present within the pictorial space. Foucault may be right with respect to the royals, but is the same true of all viewers, viewers who, like Seán, now find themselves “standing where they [the royals] sat” looking at Velázquez’s painting of Velázquez at work painting? The world outside the picture frame is always changing. Museum patrons come and go, and some, like Seán, are gone too soon. Does the fleeting spectator have any permanence? Is the invisible real? Velázquez, alas, remains silent on the question. Seán, however, will have his say.Seán, you see, is comfortable in the presence of absence. In “Siblings,” for example, the silence that lingers in the house after his sisters’ visit grows “louder by the hour,” filling the void left behind in the wake of “hallway goodbye hugs” with a palpably disquieting quiet.2 The invisible has substance in a poem that demands that we unde","PeriodicalId":499147,"journal":{"name":"Gestalt review","volume":"156 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135655247","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":"Embodied Relational Gestalt: Theories and Applications","authors":"E. Rachel Hochman","doi":"10.5325/gestaltreview.27.2.0198","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5325/gestaltreview.27.2.0198","url":null,"abstract":"I often find collections by different authors difficult to review because, while the common overarching discipline (in this case, Embodied Relational Gestalt [ERG]) is the spool, the disparate chapters create tangled threads that leave readers with a knot to unsnarl if they are to use the concepts/ideas/constructs in their own work. So, I pull out my marlinspike and ask the question: “Which of these chapters creates the thread that binds the articles together into a valuable package for readers to take on their next intellectual journey, be it at the therapy room, writing desk, or research laboratory?” In this volume, I found that thread in Chapter 8, “Engaging Strategic Curiosity: Toward and Embodied Relational Approach to Research in Gestalt Therapy.” In this chapter, Rae Johnson makes a clear case for qualitative research into concepts that arise from Gestalt Therapy (GT) and specifically ERG. Why is this call for research the thread that binds? All of the chapters propose hypotheses and offer support with case studies. But Johnson shares how to take these hypotheses to the next level by using research approaches that are harmonious with Gestalt and somatic psychotherapy.Supportively, she begins by sharing two reasons for the philosophical disconnect between traditional quantitative research and GT: (1) “the founders of humanistic experiential therapies made intentional philosophical and structural breaks with the dominant paradigms in psychology that tended to objectify, quantify, and commodify human experience in order to study it”; and (2) the prevalence of “large-scale, randomized controlled trials” as a best practice for psychotherapy research (274). Then she poses the question: “How can embodied relational Gestalt psychotherapists contribute to the research literature while remaining in integrity with our relational, process-oriented, in-the-body stance?” (274). She provides a convincing comparison among the philosophy, skills, and abilities of Gestalt therapists and constructivist/qualitative research methods by reminding the reader that heuristic research, organic research, and grounded theory (GRT) all follow the data that emerge from the research subjects, allowing themes to surface organically. Her chapter culminates with a basic framework for Gestalt therapists to refer to as they embark on their own research endeavors to discover new understanding of embodied relational experience.I am only slightly familiar with one of the constructivist methods that Johnson recommends: GRT, but her chapter encouraged me to do a brief literature search to learn more. I found an article by Chun Tie, Birks, and Francis (2019), which might be a useful place to start for Gestaltists interested in bringing a research mindset to their practice. Like Johnson, Chun Tie, Birks, and Francis emphasize that the quality of research findings (in their article “Grounded Theories”) arise from congruency of the philosophical position of the researcher, the resear","PeriodicalId":499147,"journal":{"name":"Gestalt review","volume":"23 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135655244","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}