From the Radical Center: The Heart of Gestalt Therapy

by Polster; Erving

• ISBN13: 9780881633153
• ISBN10: 0881633151
• Format: Nonspecific Binding
• Copyright: 2000-02-01
• Publisher: Gestalt Press

Summary

This remarkable collection traces central themes in the work of Erving and Miriam Polster, two of the best-known and best loved Gestalt therapists in the world. The writings herein span 4 decades in the history of psychotherapy, bringing together practical, theoretical and aesthetic dimensions of the Polsters' work in a single book. Ranging across diverse subjects and distinct historical periods, the work collected in this volume will educate, provoke, inspire and nourish Gestalt therapists for years to come.

Table of Contents

Introduction	13	(20)
Arthur Roberts
Prologue	20	(22)
Part I: Setting the Stage
A Contemporary Psychotherapy	42	(13)
The Language of Experience	55	(10)
Sensory Functioning in Psychotherapy	65	(10)
Women in Therapy: a Gestalt Therapist's View	75	(21)
Gestalt Therapy: Evolution and Application	96	(22)
Part II: Transformation of Principles
Therapy Without Resistance: Gestalt Therapy	118	(25)
Escape from the Present	143	(21)
Tight Therapeutic Sequences	164	(15)
Every Person's Life is Worth a Novel	179	(23)
The Therapeutic Power of Attention	202	(17)
The Self in Action: A Gestalt Outlook	219	(19)
Translating Theory into Practice: Martin Heidegger and Gestalt Therapy	238	(22)
Commonality and Diversity in Gestalt Therapy	260	(17)
In Memory of Carl Rogers: Great Men Cast Great Shadows	277	(9)
Part III: The Role of Community
Encounter in Community	286	(26)
Eve's Daughters: The Forbidden Heroism of Women	312	(20)
Individuality and Communality	332	(7)
Beyond One to One	339	(17)
It's Only the Most Recent Year of the Woman	356	(8)
Coda
What's New?	364
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