Gestalt therapy : roots and branches : collected papers / / Peter Philippson

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910807647103321
• Autore: Philippson Peter
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: London, : Karnac, 2012
• ISBN: 9780429896979; 0-429-90004-X; 0-429-47527-6; 1-280-49521-9; 9786613590442; 1-84940-980-3
• Edizione: [1st ed.]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (280 p.)
• Disciplina: 616.89143
• Soggetti: Gestalt therapy; Psychotherapy; Substance abuse - Treatment
• 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 and index.
• Nota di contenuto: pt. 1. Roots in philosophy -- pt. 2. Roots in psychoanalysis and connections with other theories -- pt. 3. Roots in Gestalt foundational theory.
• Sommario/riassunto: There has been a renewed interest in the last ten years in the underpinnings - theoretical, philosophical, and historical - of the Gestalt approach. Often in the past, these have been lost in oversimplified versions of the therapy. The author's aim in his writings has been to provide a full and coherent account of Gestalt theory, and to emphasize our links to our therapeutic and philosophical heritage, particularly psychoanalysis and existentialism. His theme is a field-relational theory of self as the centerpiece of the approach, and how this has been placed within a structure that is still