Main description:

Enchantment and Gestalt Therapy is a personal exploration of Erving Polster's remarkable career, the value of the Gestalt approach, and the power of enchantment in psychotherapy.

Polster points ahead to a vision of a psychotherapy that includes the population as a whole rather than focusing on individuals, highlights common aspects of living, and focuses on creating an ethos for a shared understanding. The book outlines the six Gestalt therapy concepts that have formed the basis of Polster's work and describes Life Focus Groups, with an emphasis on the communal relationship between tellers and listeners. Polster also describes the phenomenon of enchantment in psychotherapy in detail, with reference to his own experiences.

This unique work is essential reading for Gestalt therapists, other professionals interested in Gestalt approaches, and readers looking for a deeper insight into community and connection.

In the below link, Erving Polster speaks to Margherita Spagnuolo Lobb, the series editor of The Gestalt Therpay Book Series, about Enchantment and Gestalt Therapy.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7PVG9JgpTQQ&feature=youtu.be

Contents:

Foreword by Scott Churchill. 1. My Beginnings: Stolen by Gypsies 2. Concentration: Fundamentals 3. Concentration: Enchantment 4. Figure/Ground: Basic Process 5. Figure/Ground: Here and Now/There and Then 6. Figure/Ground: Life Focus Groups 7. Figure/Ground: Belonging 8. Awareness: Fundamentals 9. Contact Boundary: Fundamentals 10. Contact Boundary: Morality 11. Polarities: Self-Formation 12. Resistance 13. Public Trust. Afterword by Margherita Spagnuolo Lobb.