Main description:

- Gestalt therapy has a large and growing international community, both in North America and Europe - There aren't any current competitive books on the market, meaning that this project fills a real gap in the available literature

Contents:

Foreword Preface Introduction: The Emergence of the Relational Perspective in Gestalt Therapy Section One: An Relational Gestalt Therapy Theory 1. Aesthetic Relational Knowledge and the Dance of Reciprocity in the Therapeutic Field: Post Pandemic Gestalt Therapy in Practice 2. Engaged Surrender 3. Field Theory in Psychopathology and Clinical Practice 4. Gestalt Therapy Theory in an Age of Turmoil 5. To Hold the Hands that Hold our Hands: Responsivity of Contacting 6. The Gifts and Risks in Relational Empathy: An Historical Perspective 7. Living in a World of Meaning Section Two: Applications of the Relational Gestalt Perspective 8. A Classical Beginning and a Relational Turn: A Gestalt Therapy Case Study 9. When the World Changes in an Instant: Exploring the "Cracks in the Continuity of Experience" 10. What My Client Taught Me About Dialogic Presence: A Case Study of Client and Therapist in Relational Gestalt Therapy 11. On Regret: A Relational Gestalt Therapy Perspective 12. The Encounter Process 13. Shame and Relational Gestalt Group Therapy: Restoring the Interpersonal Bridge Section Three: Integrative Relational Approaches 14. Embodies Relational Presence in Buddhist Psychology Informed Gestalt Therapy 15. The Here and Now of Sandtray Therapy: Sandtray Therapy Meets Gestalt Therapy 16. The Mountain and the River: Stillness and Flow and the Art of Therapy