"Abstract: The concept of beauty in Gestalt therapy is explored, underlining the central importance of the aesthetic criterion for this model. Aesthetic evaluation, which is an essential component in the work of any Gestalt therapist, is a prereflexive and preverbal process, located at the root of the Gestaltung, in the dimension in which the subect and the world emerge. An original conception of psychopathology and psychotherapy is discussed: psychopathological suffering is conceived as an absence at the contact boundary. Therapy therefore consists in restoring presence to the encounter, through a process which transforms absence into pain and pain into beauty. The therapeutic engagement in ‘distilling beauty’ from the relational histories and dynamics narrated by the client is considered from an existential perspective, seeking to make sense of human suffering and of our work as therapists. Finally, in this light, we consider the ethical ground of psychotherapy, which permits us to avoid the risks of reductionism which we face at present – namely the risk of reducing the psyche into a biological or intimistic event. Key words: beauty, pain, aesthetics, contact, Gestaltung, intrinsic evaluation, psychopath- ology, ethics, existentialism, reductionism."
{"title":"Pain and beauty: from the psychopathology to the aesthetics of contact","authors":"G. Francesetti","doi":"10.53667/bzzh5404","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.53667/bzzh5404","url":null,"abstract":"\"Abstract: The concept of beauty in Gestalt therapy is explored, underlining the central importance of the aesthetic criterion for this model. Aesthetic evaluation, which is an essential component in the work of any Gestalt therapist, is a prereflexive and preverbal process, located at the root of the Gestaltung, in the dimension in which the subect and the world emerge. An original conception of psychopathology and psychotherapy is discussed: psychopathological suffering is conceived as an absence at the contact boundary. Therapy therefore consists in restoring presence to the encounter, through a process which transforms absence into pain and pain into beauty. The therapeutic engagement in ‘distilling beauty’ from the relational histories and dynamics narrated by the client is considered from an existential perspective, seeking to make sense of human suffering and of our work as therapists. Finally, in this light, we consider the ethical ground of psychotherapy, which permits us to avoid the risks of reductionism which we face at present – namely the risk of reducing the psyche into a biological or intimistic event. Key words: beauty, pain, aesthetics, contact, Gestaltung, intrinsic evaluation, psychopath- ology, ethics, existentialism, reductionism.\"","PeriodicalId":103162,"journal":{"name":"British Gestalt Journal","volume":"35 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2012-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122421179","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
"Abstract: Using six stages of heuristic inquiry (Moustakas, 1990) as the structural outline, this article is a partial account of the author’s research journey as a Gestalt practitioner working on a doctorate at Metanoia Institute. It includes an extract from the author’s research journal and excerpts from the doctoral findings. The doctorate focuses on stepfamily relationships through the experiences of mothers and includes personal material alongside the narratives of other women. Some of the findings are included here. The author touches on fears and insecurities around learning and issues of identity that she encountered through the process of researching. In the course of learning about qualitative research the author found many methodologies that share the same philosophical and ontological roots as Gestalt therapy and drew from these to create a mixed methodology. Thus this writing highlights a fuzzy boundary between the practice of psychotherapy and qualitative research where the practice of Gestalt in the therapy room might be thought of as a form of heuristic research with the therapist supporting the self investigation of her client in the context of their relationship. Key words: heuristic inquiry, qualitative research, stepfamilies, mothers, narrative, identity, self in research."
{"title":"Where Gestalt and qualitative research merge: a heuristic inquiry into mothers’ experiences in stepfamilies","authors":"Claire Asherson Bartram","doi":"10.53667/bklk2969","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.53667/bklk2969","url":null,"abstract":"\"Abstract: Using six stages of heuristic inquiry (Moustakas, 1990) as the structural outline, this article is a partial account of the author’s research journey as a Gestalt practitioner working on a doctorate at Metanoia Institute. It includes an extract from the author’s research journal and excerpts from the doctoral findings. The doctorate focuses on stepfamily relationships through the experiences of mothers and includes personal material alongside the narratives of other women. Some of the findings are included here. The author touches on fears and insecurities around learning and issues of identity that she encountered through the process of researching. In the course of learning about qualitative research the author found many methodologies that share the same philosophical and ontological roots as Gestalt therapy and drew from these to create a mixed methodology. Thus this writing highlights a fuzzy boundary between the practice of psychotherapy and qualitative research where the practice of Gestalt in the therapy room might be thought of as a form of heuristic research with the therapist supporting the self investigation of her client in the context of their relationship. Key words: heuristic inquiry, qualitative research, stepfamilies, mothers, narrative, identity, self in research.\"","PeriodicalId":103162,"journal":{"name":"British Gestalt Journal","volume":"11 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2012-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128193283","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
"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."
{"title":"Companion animals as assistant therapists: embodying our animal selves","authors":"Veronica Lac, Robin Walton","doi":"10.53667/sksc8214","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.53667/sksc8214","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":0.0,"publicationDate":"2012-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133543771","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
"Editor’s note: This paper is from a talk given by Peter Philippson at a German-Austrian- Swiss Conference held in Vienna, 12 November 2011, to celebrate the 100th anniversary of Paul Goodman’s birth. This article is also being published in parallel in Gestalttherapie, 26 (1), Spring 2012."
{"title":"Paul Goodman’s contribution to the Gestalt theory of self","authors":"Peter Philippson","doi":"10.53667/fxng6614","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.53667/fxng6614","url":null,"abstract":"\"Editor’s note: This paper is from a talk given by Peter Philippson at a German-Austrian- Swiss Conference held in Vienna, 12 November 2011, to celebrate the 100th anniversary of Paul Goodman’s birth. This article is also being published in parallel in Gestalttherapie, 26 (1), Spring 2012.\"","PeriodicalId":103162,"journal":{"name":"British Gestalt Journal","volume":"5 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2012-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131105347","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Nicky Burton, Marie‐Anne Chidiac, N. Harris, A. Norton
"Abstract: The application of a Gestalt philosophy and practice in work with a family business is one in which awareness, contact, and the need for flexibility, adaptability, and support are paramount. The thrill of moving into the unknown emerges from a carefully considered ground. We describe work we did with the many members of a family generation, for whom contact, meeting, and being known were the organising needs. This article is the voice of the facilitating team, at times a unity, at times very clearly four individuals. Key words: Gestalt, organisational consulting, support, family, dialogue, contact."
{"title":"Gestalt organisational work with a family business: a story of awareness, emergence and co-creation","authors":"Nicky Burton, Marie‐Anne Chidiac, N. Harris, A. Norton","doi":"10.53667/snzq7315","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.53667/snzq7315","url":null,"abstract":"\"Abstract: The application of a Gestalt philosophy and practice in work with a family business is one in which awareness, contact, and the need for flexibility, adaptability, and support are paramount. The thrill of moving into the unknown emerges from a carefully considered ground. We describe work we did with the many members of a family generation, for whom contact, meeting, and being known were the organising needs. This article is the voice of the facilitating team, at times a unity, at times very clearly four individuals. Key words: Gestalt, organisational consulting, support, family, dialogue, contact.\"","PeriodicalId":103162,"journal":{"name":"British Gestalt Journal","volume":"50 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2012-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128403969","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
"Abstract: To date, a number of Gestalt coaching models have been developed that principally focus on activities occurring within a relatively formal coach/coachee interaction. So far, most of these tend to require the coach, and sometimes the coachee, to have extensive specialist training in Gestalt psychotherapy theory and organisational skills (see Denham-Vaughan and Chidiac, 2009, for further discussion). Our aim was to focus instead on the organisational field/ culture and existent relationships per se: to develop a coaching process that would leverage the quality of all interactions occurring in the situation and be easy for people without specialist Gestalt training to understand and use. We thus offer the PAIR coaching model as a process that can be rapidly delivered in a wide range of organisational settings where people lack pre- existing explicit Gestalt psychotherapy or organisational Gestalt knowledge or expertise. Key words: Gestalt, coaching, field, relational, process, presence."
{"title":"Field-relational coaching for Gestalt beginners: the PAIR model","authors":"Sally Denham‐Vaughan, M. Gawlinski","doi":"10.53667/jyna2160","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.53667/jyna2160","url":null,"abstract":"\"Abstract: To date, a number of Gestalt coaching models have been developed that principally focus on activities occurring within a relatively formal coach/coachee interaction. So far, most of these tend to require the coach, and sometimes the coachee, to have extensive specialist training in Gestalt psychotherapy theory and organisational skills (see Denham-Vaughan and Chidiac, 2009, for further discussion). Our aim was to focus instead on the organisational field/ culture and existent relationships per se: to develop a coaching process that would leverage the quality of all interactions occurring in the situation and be easy for people without specialist Gestalt training to understand and use. We thus offer the PAIR coaching model as a process that can be rapidly delivered in a wide range of organisational settings where people lack pre- existing explicit Gestalt psychotherapy or organisational Gestalt knowledge or expertise. Key words: Gestalt, coaching, field, relational, process, presence.\"","PeriodicalId":103162,"journal":{"name":"British Gestalt Journal","volume":"80 2","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2012-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"120874947","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
"Abstract: This paper is based on a keynote lecture that was given at the biannual conference of the Gestaltterapeutisk Forum in Copenhagen on March 26, 2011. Therefore it includes some special references to Denmark and Søren Kierkegaard. The title of the conference was ‘The Now: The Meaning of Time in Gestalt Therapy’. The author investigates the question, how the Now can be understood in ways that are in accordance with Gestalt therapy’s roots in phenomenology, Gestalt psychology, and holism. He points out that temporality and mean- ing-making are closely linked together, which leads to the idea that there is no absolute Now. Instead, it is proposed that the duration of a respective Now should be defined with respect to the complexity of the meaning that is to be created. A holarchy of Nows is proposed, in which ‘individual sensory Nows’, an ‘integrated sensory Now’, a ‘semantic Now’, a ‘situational Now’, and a ‘hermeneutic Now’ are inherently interrelated. Key words: Gestalt psychology, holism, meaning, now, phenomenology, time."
{"title":"The Now is not what it used to be . . . The meaning of time in Gestalt therapy or the times of meaning in Gestalt therapy","authors":"Frank-M. Staemmler","doi":"10.53667/racv4247","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.53667/racv4247","url":null,"abstract":"\"Abstract: This paper is based on a keynote lecture that was given at the biannual conference of the Gestaltterapeutisk Forum in Copenhagen on March 26, 2011. Therefore it includes some special references to Denmark and Søren Kierkegaard. The title of the conference was ‘The Now: The Meaning of Time in Gestalt Therapy’. The author investigates the question, how the Now can be understood in ways that are in accordance with Gestalt therapy’s roots in phenomenology, Gestalt psychology, and holism. He points out that temporality and mean- ing-making are closely linked together, which leads to the idea that there is no absolute Now. Instead, it is proposed that the duration of a respective Now should be defined with respect to the complexity of the meaning that is to be created. A holarchy of Nows is proposed, in which ‘individual sensory Nows’, an ‘integrated sensory Now’, a ‘semantic Now’, a ‘situational Now’, and a ‘hermeneutic Now’ are inherently interrelated. Key words: Gestalt psychology, holism, meaning, now, phenomenology, time.\"","PeriodicalId":103162,"journal":{"name":"British Gestalt Journal","volume":"171 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2011-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121370382","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
"Abstract: Psychotherapy outcome has been of great interest for the last fifty years. Empirically supported psychotherapy and evidence-based treatment are influencing current thinking about variables that can and should be validated in psychotherapy. After first presenting a critical review of evidence-based treatment, I will try to evaluate where ORGT stands in the light of recent results obtained in research on psychotherapy. Key words: Object Relational Gestalt Therapy, psychotherapy, evidence-based practices, therapeutic principles, personality disorders, effectiveness."
{"title":"Object Relational Gestalt Therapy (ORGT) and evidence-based practice","authors":"M. Drouin","doi":"10.53667/rhxq6954","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.53667/rhxq6954","url":null,"abstract":"\"Abstract: Psychotherapy outcome has been of great interest for the last fifty years. Empirically supported psychotherapy and evidence-based treatment are influencing current thinking about variables that can and should be validated in psychotherapy. After first presenting a critical review of evidence-based treatment, I will try to evaluate where ORGT stands in the light of recent results obtained in research on psychotherapy. Key words: Object Relational Gestalt Therapy, psychotherapy, evidence-based practices, therapeutic principles, personality disorders, effectiveness.\"","PeriodicalId":103162,"journal":{"name":"British Gestalt Journal","volume":"135 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2011-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122493593","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
"Abstract: In the context of Gestalt psychotherapy being situated within an evolving psycho- logical therapies profession, I present a discussion, along the lines of an appreciative enquiry, around some of the key concepts and illuminating features of Delisle’s ORGT model, based on Delisle’s delivery of his approach over a two-day workshop I attended in March 2011. Starting from the foundations of Gestalt psychotherapy to current influences, I make reference to some of the strengths and limitations of Gestalt theory and practice highlighted by Delisle, and reflect on the enduring elements of Fritz Perls’ legacy. I consider the principal discussion points in relation to working with clients with borderline personality disorder and underscore two features of Delisle’s model: the use of hermeneutics, which includes an element of interpretation; and working with past experience, as one of the parts of the four-dimensional field presented by Delisle. I include reference to the underpinning developmental theory within Mentalisation Based Therapy (MBT) and neurobiological explanations within neuroscience on some of the neural functioning patterns of borderline personality disorder, drawing links to concepts of Delisle’s model. The impetus for writing this article was primarily a profound experience I had during an exercise at Delisle’s workshop, and my enjoyment of the conceptual nourishment that the theoretical material offered, as well as my appreciation of Delisle’s efforts to include a developmental theory of health and pathology into Gestalt theory and practice. Overall, my reflections are a deliberation of Gestalt theory and practice at the juncture of now. Key words: Object Relational Gestalt Therapy (ORGT), development, contact, field, attach- ment, mentalisation, capabilities, neuroscience, Psychodynamic Diagnostic Manual (PDM), borderline personality disorder."
{"title":"Encountering Object Relational Gestalt Therapy as presented by Gilles Delisle","authors":"Sharon Beirne","doi":"10.53667/plkf9888","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.53667/plkf9888","url":null,"abstract":"\"Abstract: In the context of Gestalt psychotherapy being situated within an evolving psycho- logical therapies profession, I present a discussion, along the lines of an appreciative enquiry, around some of the key concepts and illuminating features of Delisle’s ORGT model, based on Delisle’s delivery of his approach over a two-day workshop I attended in March 2011. Starting from the foundations of Gestalt psychotherapy to current influences, I make reference to some of the strengths and limitations of Gestalt theory and practice highlighted by Delisle, and reflect on the enduring elements of Fritz Perls’ legacy. I consider the principal discussion points in relation to working with clients with borderline personality disorder and underscore two features of Delisle’s model: the use of hermeneutics, which includes an element of interpretation; and working with past experience, as one of the parts of the four-dimensional field presented by Delisle. I include reference to the underpinning developmental theory within Mentalisation Based Therapy (MBT) and neurobiological explanations within neuroscience on some of the neural functioning patterns of borderline personality disorder, drawing links to concepts of Delisle’s model. The impetus for writing this article was primarily a profound experience I had during an exercise at Delisle’s workshop, and my enjoyment of the conceptual nourishment that the theoretical material offered, as well as my appreciation of Delisle’s efforts to include a developmental theory of health and pathology into Gestalt theory and practice. Overall, my reflections are a deliberation of Gestalt theory and practice at the juncture of now. Key words: Object Relational Gestalt Therapy (ORGT), development, contact, field, attach- ment, mentalisation, capabilities, neuroscience, Psychodynamic Diagnostic Manual (PDM), borderline personality disorder.\"","PeriodicalId":103162,"journal":{"name":"British Gestalt Journal","volume":"81 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2011-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126233027","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
C. Stevens, J. Stringfellow, Katy Wakelin, J. Waring
{"title":"The UK Gestalt psychotherapy CORE research project: the findings","authors":"C. Stevens, J. Stringfellow, Katy Wakelin, J. Waring","doi":"10.53667/hfqy7525","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.53667/hfqy7525","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":103162,"journal":{"name":"British Gestalt Journal","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2011-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131861141","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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