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Record Nr.

UNINA9910456760703321

Autore

Ginger Serge

Titolo

Gestalt therapy : the art of contact / / Serge Ginger ; translated by Sarah Spargo and Sally Reeder Cojean

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London : , : Karnac, , 2007

ISBN

9780429896980

0-429-90005-8

0-429-47528-4

1-283-06935-0

9786613069351

1-84940-571-9

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (240 p.)

Disciplina

616.89/143

Soggetti

Gestalt therapy

Gestalt therapists

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 142-146) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Cover; Copy Right; ABOUT THE AUTHOR; FOREWORD; INTRODUCTION; 1: What is Gestalt?; 2: The Therapist is incarnate; 3: Fritz Perls, the Father of Gestalt Therapy; 4: The Theory of the Self; 5: Gestalt-Pedagogy and Socio-Gestalt; 6: Gestalt and the Brain; 7: Dreams in Gestalt Therapy; 8: The Body, the Emotions; 9: Vital Drives: Aggression and Sexuality; 10: The Personality Profile (Psychopathology); 11: Twenty Basic Notions; ANNEXES; Short bibliography: in English; Short bibliography: in French; Practical information

Sommario/riassunto

Gestalt Therapy has been developing steadily for the last 50 years in America as well as in Europe. It is currently practiced in different settings: individual, group, and family therapies; personal growth; social, medical and business organizations. This book describes a specific French approach: a synthesis of French culture (greatly influenced by psychoanalysis) along with a mobilizing and interactive method, emphasizing the cycle of contact, evoking the emotions, the body and the right hemisphere of the brain. This book is written mostly



for beginners and for psychotherapy clients: it summ