{"title":"Companion animals as assistant therapists: embodying our animal selves","authors":"Veronica Lac, Robin Walton","doi":"10.53667/sksc8214","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"\"Abstract: This article introduces the concept of Gestalt Animal Assisted Psychotherapy (GAAP). Clinical vignettes are used to demonstrate how companion animals enhance the therapeutic encounter within a Gestalt framework. The authors highlight the here and now, embodied, experimental and relational aspects of Gestalt therapy theory through their work. Key words: Gestalt, Animal Assisted Psychotherapy, GAAP, embodied, experiment, rela- tional, companion animal, non-verbal, inter-species, co-created.\"","PeriodicalId":103162,"journal":{"name":"British Gestalt Journal","volume":"92 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"2012-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"2","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"British Gestalt Journal","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.53667/sksc8214","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"","JCRName":"","Score":null,"Total":0}
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"Abstract: This article introduces the concept of Gestalt Animal Assisted Psychotherapy (GAAP). Clinical vignettes are used to demonstrate how companion animals enhance the therapeutic encounter within a Gestalt framework. The authors highlight the here and now, embodied, experimental and relational aspects of Gestalt therapy theory through their work. Key words: Gestalt, Animal Assisted Psychotherapy, GAAP, embodied, experiment, rela- tional, companion animal, non-verbal, inter-species, co-created."