Studies in Gestalt Therapy

Volume 1, Issue 1 – 2007
Self and Intersubjectivity
 
Contents
Editorial
Dan Bloom, Margherita Spagnuolo Lobb, Frank-M. Staemmler
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Section 1 — Theoretical Bridges
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Self, Subject, and Intersubjectivity:
Gestalt Therapists Reply to Questions
From the Editors and From Daniel Stern and Michael Mahoney
Lynne Jacobs, Peter Philippson, and Gordon Wheeler

Section 2 — Historical Bridges
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The Ambiguities of Origins:
Pragmatism, the University of Chicago,
and Paul Goodman’s Self
Richard Kitzler
Section 3 — Bridges in Practice
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Self-Regulation of the Therapeutic Meeting
From Constructivist and Gestalt Therapy Perspectives:
A Transcribed Experiment
Michael Mahoney, Margherita Spagnuolo Lobb,
Michael Clemmens, Andre Marquis
Commemorating Michael Mahoney
Peter Mullen
Section 4 — A Critical Eye on Books and Essays
Building Bridges Across Divides With Gestalt Therapy:
Book Review of T. Levine Bar-Yoseph, 2005
Karen Humphrey
Panic Attacks, Gestalt Therapy, and Postmodernity
Book Review of G. Francesetti, 2005
Giulio Gasca
Gestalt Therapy Research
Book Review of P. Barber, 2006
Paolo Migone
Section 5 — A Critical Eye on Conferences
Gestalt Therapists Meet in Germany
Christof Weber
AAGT Convenes in Canada
Stephan Tobin
Section 6 — Bridges Toward a Wider Perspective
Committed Relativism
Malcolm Parlett

Volume 1, Issue 2 – 2007
Contact and Intrapsychic Perspectives
 
Contents
Editorial
Dan Bloom, Margherita Spagnuolo Lobb, Frank-M. Staemmler
Section 1 — Theoretical Bridges
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Contact and Intrapsychic Perspectives: Gestalt Therapist Reply to Questions From Editors and From Ernesto Spinelli
Joe Melnick , Jean-Marie Robine, Mary-Lou Schack, Ernesto Spinelli
Section 2 — Historical Bridges
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On Macaque Monkeys, Players, and Clairvoyants: Some New Ideas for Gestalt Therapeutic Concept of Empathy
Frank-M. Staemmler
The Impossibility of Empathic Immersion: A Dialogical Bridge With Frank-M. Staemmler
Robert D.Stolorow
Section 3 — Bridges in Practice
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A Transcribed Demonstration of Contemporary Gestalt Therapy, With Comments by an Intersubjective Systems Psychoanalyst
Erving Polster, Donna Orange
Section 4 — A Critical Eye on Books and Essays
Devolopmental Psychology – Book Review of E.Tronick (2007)
Ruella Frank
Bud Feder’s Guide to Group – Book Review of B.Feder (2006)
Jon McCormick
A Guide to the Vocabulary of Gestalt Therapy – Book Review of S.Blankertz & E. Doubrawa (2005)
Jungkyu Kim
Section 5 — A Critical Eye on Conferences
Gestalt Therapist Meet in Argentina: Critical Review of the 10th International Gestalt Therapy Congress and 3rd Latin Gestalt Congress. Cordoba, Argentina, May 2007
Carmen Vasquez Baldin
Gestalt Therapy and Creativity in Cleveland: Critical Review of Gestalt and Creativity: An International Celebration. Cleveland, Ohio, August 2007
Michael Craig Clemmens
EAGT in Athens: Critical Review of the 9th European Conference of Gestalt Therapy: Exploring Human Conflict. Athens, September 2007
Carl Hodges
Obituary
Commemorationg Berrie Simmons (1934-2006)
Joel Latner
Section 6 — Bridges Toward a Wider Perspective
Acknowledging the Unacknowledged
Malcolm Parlett

Volume 2, Issue 1 – 2008
Psychotherapy and Social Change
 
Contents
Editorial
Psychotherapy and Social Change: Gestalt Therapy’s Calling?
Dan Bloom, Margherita Spagnuolo Lobb, Frank-M. Staemmler
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Editorial Note
Notes on Nomenclature
Section 1 — Theoretical Bridges
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Psychotherapy and Social Change:
Gestalt Therapists Reply to Questions
From the Editors and From Zygmunt Bauman
Seán Gaffney, Malcolm Parlett and Giovanni Salonia

Section 2 — Historical Bridges
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Culture Change:
Conversations Concerning Political and Religious Difference
Philip Lichtenberg (with brief comments from Judith Brown, Philip Brownell, Kathleen Hoel and Joe Lay)

Section 3 — Bridges in Practice
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The Organization as Social-Microcosm:
Gestalt Therapy Oriented Organizational Practice
Talia Levine Bar-Yoseph
On Clinical Intervention in Organizations: Comments on Talia Levine Bar-Yoseph’s Article
Dario Forti
In Memory of Ruth Ronall
Bud Feder
Section 4 — A Critical Eye on Books and Essays
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Mindfulness as a Path to Well-Being:
Book Review of D. Siegel, 2007
Robert G. Lee and Deborah Ullman

Overcoming Reductionism in Neuroscience:
Book Review of E. Harmon-Jones and P. Winkielman, 2007
Peter Philippson

The Built-in Impossibility of Our End:
Book Review of R. D. Stolorow, 2007
Antonio Sichera

Section 5 — A Critical Eye on Conferences
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Gestalt Therapists Explore Their Roots in Rome
April 2007
Philip Brownell

Contact: Cycle or Sequence? A Colloquium in New York
December 2007
Christine Stevens

Section 6 — Bridges Toward a Wider Perspective
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Dialogue and Dogmatism in a Post-Modern World: – What Size the Ecological Footprint of Your Pineapple?
Sally Denham-Vaughan

Volume 2, Issue 2 – 2008
Somatic Experience and Emergent Dysfunctions
 
Contents
Editorial
Indivisible Experience, Infinite Forms
Dan Bloom, Margherita Spagnuolo Lobb, Frank-M. Staemmler
In Memoriam: Richard Kitzler
Dan Bloom
Section 1 — Theoretical Bridges

Somatic Experience and Emergent Dysfunction: Gestalt Therapists in Dialogue and in Response to Questions from the Editors and from Eugene Gendlin
Michael Clemmens, Ruella Frank, Edward Smith

Section 2 — Historical Bridges
Towards a More Deeply Embodied Approach in Gestalt Therapy
James I. Kepner
Section 3 — Bridges in Practice

Movement Theory and Psychoanalysis — Kinetic Therapeutic Action
Frances LaBarre
Embodied Therapeutic Dialogue: Response to Frances LaBarre
Lynne Jacobs
Section 4 — A Critical Eye on Books and Essays
An Existential Psychotherapist’s “Relational World”:
Book Review of E. Spinelli (2007)
Des Kennedy

Psychosomatic Medicine:
Book Review of A. Harrington (2008)
Charlie Bowman

A Silent Language Living at the Boundary:
Book Review of G. Wollants (2007)
Bruno Callieri

Section 5 — A Critical Eye on Conferences
Creativity as Therapeutic Identity — The Import of Gestalt Therapy
Franco Gnudi

Section 6 — Bridges Toward a Wider Perspective
Integrating Bodies
Malcolm Parlett

Volume 3, Issue 1 – 2009
Group Process and the Phenomenal Field
 
Contents
Editorial
Gestalt Therapy Group Process: Group as a Phenomenal and Social Field
Dan Bloom, Margherita Spagnuolo Lobb, Frank-M. Staemmler
Section 1 — Theoretical Bridges

Group Process and the Phenomenal Field — Three Experienced Gestalt Therapists in Dialogue
Joseph Handlon, Carl Hodges, Gaie Houston

Section 2 — Historical Bridges
A Quest for Gestalt Therapy Group Process: Group Process as Self Process
Dan Bloom
Section 3 — Bridges in Practice

Scapegoating from the Inside Out: A Gestalt Understanding and Inter-vention
Robert G. Lee
A Commentary on Robert G. Lee’s Article
Bianca Gallo
Section 4 — A Critical Eye on Books and Essays
Empathy in Psychotherapy: How Therapists and Clients Understand Each Other
Book Review of Das Geheimnis des Anderen — Empathie in der Psychotherapie: Wie Therapeuten und Klienten einander verstehen [The Secret of the Other — Empathy in Psychotherapy: How Therapists and Clients Understand Each Other], by Frank-M. Staemmler Donna M. Orange

From the Trenches to the Gestalt Kibbutz. Fritz Perls in Various Con-texts
Book Review of Fritz Perls in Berlin 1989–1933. Expressionismus — Psycho-analyse — Judentum [Fritz Perls in Berlin 1989–1933. Expressionism, Psychoa-nalysis, Jewry]. Helmut Dahmer

Book Review of The Secret Language of Intimacy: Releasing the Hidden Power in Couple Relationships, by Robert G. Lee. Wilma Trasarti Sponti

Section 5 — A Critical Eye on Conferences
Report on the 11th International Congress on Gestalt Therapy. Madrid, Spain — April 30–May 3, 2009.
Ximo Tárrega Soler

Section 6 — Bridges Toward a Wider Perspective
A Potpourri of Theory Tasks
Gary Yontef

Volume 3, Issue 2 – 2009
Attention, Awareness, and Mindfulness
 
Contents
Editorial
Dimensions in Psychology, Ethics, and Spirituality
Dan Bloom, Margherita Spagnuolo Lobb, Frank-M. Staemmler
Section 1 — Theoretical Bridges
Attention, Awareness and Mindfulness in Psychotherapy: A Dialog
Paul R. Fulton (Meditation), Michael I. Posner (Neurosciences), Bernhard Waldenfels (Phenomenology), Gary Yontef (Gestalt Therapy)

Section 2 — Historical Bridges
From Free Association to Concentration: About Alienation, Ferenczi’s “Forced Fantasies,” and “the Third” in Gestalt Therapy
Bernd Bocian
Commentary on Bernd Bocian’s Paper
Eva Jaeggi
Section 3 — Bridges in Practice
Everything Is a Problem for the Big Blue Sea on the Big Green Couch: A Focusing Oriented Approach
Lynn Preston
Commentary I: From a Dzogchen Point of View
James Low
Commentary II: From a Gestalt Therapy Point of View
Sylvie Schoch de Neuforn
Section 4 — A Critical Eye on Books and Essays
A Study of Creativity: Book Review of
Teaching Creativity: Multi-mode Transitional Practices by Derek Pigrum
Nurith Levi

Section 5 — A Critical Eye on Conferences
Report on the Biennial Conference of the Association for the Advance-ment of Gestalt Therapy, an International Community (AAGT), Man-chester, UK, July 2008
Liz Beauchamp, Seán Gaffney, Lynda Osborne

Section 6 — Bridges Toward a Wider Perspective
The Complexity of Ease:
How Health and Living Well Present Challenges to Psychotherapy
Sally Denham-Vaughan

Now, as international communities face rapid social and scientific changes, the world of psychotherapy is re-discovering its core paradigms of dialogue and interconnectedness – yet using the specific theoretical language of different approaches.
In this new play of figures and grounds, traditional concerns – such as, body/mind, conscious/unconscious, rational/irrational, individual/social, theory/practice, experience/interpretation, and personal/political – are being re-examined in the light of relational perspectives and evidence based research.
Once nearly alone at its frontier of innovation, contemporary gestalt therapy finds itself in a parallel path with other psychotherapies. This journal is dedicated to exploring the development of gestalt therapy through dialogical bridges with these other psychotherapeutic approaches.
We believe that our understanding and practice of gestalt therapy will deepen through this venture in contacting.
Studies in Gestalt Therapy: Dialogical Bridges suspended publication with volume III. Each individual issue of the journal is a contribution to our field on a different theme in psychotherapy. Copies of these issues can be ordered on this website.

Editorial, Production, and Marketing Team:
Talia Levine Bar-Yoseph, Philip Brownell, Eva Fisher, Gianni Francesetti, Ruella Frank, Carl Hodges, Karen Humphrey , Lynne Jacobs, Sergio La Rosa , Richard Kitzler, Perry Klepner, Burt Lazarin , Philip Lichtenberg, Joe Melnick, Brian O’Neill, Malcolm Parlett, Peter Philippson, Jean-Marie Robine , Carmen Vazquez-Bandin, Eric Werthman, Gordon Wheeler, Gary Yontef, and Lee Zevy.

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