"Abstract: This article is a direct response to ‘Something in the Air’ by Neil Harris (2011, BGJ, 20, 2). It sets out an argument that, rather than the qualities of the adoptive organisation, the author of that article was the most significant factor in the field that influenced the attitude of the young man at their meeting. To support this argument it draws on the dialogic relationship, attachment theory, and trauma. It makes a strong connection between the qualities necessary in adult relationships with children, if those children are to attach, and the qualities needed by therapists to help their clients make the best use of therapy. It concludes that much more needs to be done to bring the needs of looked after children to the attention of the Gestalt community. Key words: presence, attachment, meeting, dialogic relationship, field theory, Parlett’s five factors, connection, looked after children, adoption."
{"title":"The meeting: a response to Neil Harris, ‘Something in the air’","authors":"Francis Taylor","doi":"10.53667/ayjm7674","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.53667/ayjm7674","url":null,"abstract":"\"Abstract: This article is a direct response to ‘Something in the Air’ by Neil Harris (2011, BGJ, 20, 2). It sets out an argument that, rather than the qualities of the adoptive organisation, the author of that article was the most significant factor in the field that influenced the attitude of the young man at their meeting. To support this argument it draws on the dialogic relationship, attachment theory, and trauma. It makes a strong connection between the qualities necessary in adult relationships with children, if those children are to attach, and the qualities needed by therapists to help their clients make the best use of therapy. It concludes that much more needs to be done to bring the needs of looked after children to the attention of the Gestalt community. Key words: presence, attachment, meeting, dialogic relationship, field theory, Parlett’s five factors, connection, looked after children, adoption.\"","PeriodicalId":103162,"journal":{"name":"British Gestalt Journal","volume":"17 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2011-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131794277","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: The continuum of our life processes is transformed in personal figural experience by awareness. Experience is always more or less conscious, yet it is affected by ‘unseen’, unconscious processes running in the ground. During the figural sharpening and the evolvement of the contact cycle, just when awareness appears, there is an image-like, spontaneously-emerging representation, the ‘personal film’. It could phenomenologically be the symbolisation of the field in motion, as it is reorganised through an organism/environment contact episode. It carries in its structure imprints of both our conscious (figural) and unconscious (ground) processes, and thus it can be a comple- mentary tool in any kind of process and awareness work. This article is a Gestalt configuration of the personal film concept. Key words: personal film, basic awareness, full awareness, figure/ground configuration, image-like representation, process symbolising, process continuum, time sense, conscious and unconscious process."
{"title":"Watching my ‘personal film’, or configuring an image-like symbolic process representation","authors":"Petros Theodorou","doi":"10.53667/mszw6716","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.53667/mszw6716","url":null,"abstract":"\"Abstract: The continuum of our life processes is transformed in personal figural experience by awareness. Experience is always more or less conscious, yet it is affected by ‘unseen’, unconscious processes running in the ground. During the figural sharpening and the evolvement of the contact cycle, just when awareness appears, there is an image-like, spontaneously-emerging representation, the ‘personal film’. It could phenomenologically be the symbolisation of the field in motion, as it is reorganised through an organism/environment contact episode. It carries in its structure imprints of both our conscious (figural) and unconscious (ground) processes, and thus it can be a comple- mentary tool in any kind of process and awareness work. This article is a Gestalt configuration of the personal film concept. Key words: personal film, basic awareness, full awareness, figure/ground configuration, image-like representation, process symbolising, process continuum, time sense, conscious and unconscious process.\"","PeriodicalId":103162,"journal":{"name":"British Gestalt Journal","volume":"53 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2011-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130553594","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: The field conditions that support good and satisfying contact in a specific work setting are explored. The growth of an organisation dedicated to helping children with histories of severe adversity, and developing sophisticated interventions for them and their families is outlined. An analysis of the key factors is laid out using the framework of Parlett’s five factors that support creative adjustment in a global field. The concept of mindfulness is also invoked as an integrating frame for success in this work. Key words: trauma, loss, adoption, mindfulness, field, contact, support."
{"title":"Something in the air: conditions that promote contact when meeting young people who have stories of early trauma and loss","authors":"N. Harris","doi":"10.53667/bjpp4090","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.53667/bjpp4090","url":null,"abstract":"\"Abstract: The field conditions that support good and satisfying contact in a specific work setting are explored. The growth of an organisation dedicated to helping children with histories of severe adversity, and developing sophisticated interventions for them and their families is outlined. An analysis of the key factors is laid out using the framework of Parlett’s five factors that support creative adjustment in a global field. The concept of mindfulness is also invoked as an integrating frame for success in this work. Key words: trauma, loss, adoption, mindfulness, field, contact, support.\"","PeriodicalId":103162,"journal":{"name":"British Gestalt Journal","volume":"427 3 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2011-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123438283","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: Since the work of Martin Buber was absorbed into the theory and practice of Gestalt psychotherapy the subject of inclusion, or empathy, has featured prominently in its discourse. In contrast, the subject of understanding is noticeable by its absence. This paper sets out to examine and describe these two related, but distinct, phenomena in an effort to contribute to the increasing literature of Gestalt therapy theory and practice written from a relational perspective. The German hermeneutist Wilhelm Dilthey provides a valuable starting point for a discussion of how the terms understanding and empathy can be understood and utilised. Key words: phenomenology, hermeneutics, empathy, understanding, Wilhelm Dilthey, rela- tional."
{"title":"Empathy and understanding: phenomenology and hermeneutics in relational Gestalt psychotherapy","authors":"Stuart Stawman","doi":"10.53667/kjln4560","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.53667/kjln4560","url":null,"abstract":"\"Abstract: Since the work of Martin Buber was absorbed into the theory and practice of Gestalt psychotherapy the subject of inclusion, or empathy, has featured prominently in its discourse. In contrast, the subject of understanding is noticeable by its absence. This paper sets out to examine and describe these two related, but distinct, phenomena in an effort to contribute to the increasing literature of Gestalt therapy theory and practice written from a relational perspective. The German hermeneutist Wilhelm Dilthey provides a valuable starting point for a discussion of how the terms understanding and empathy can be understood and utilised. Key words: phenomenology, hermeneutics, empathy, understanding, Wilhelm Dilthey, rela- tional.\"","PeriodicalId":103162,"journal":{"name":"British Gestalt Journal","volume":"95 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2011-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128392960","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 certain jurisdictions psychotherapists serve as the gatekeepers to sexual reassignment surgery. Therapists are traditionally charged with assessing the existence of long-term gender dysphoria in their transgender patients as the criterion for access to surgery. This case presentation explores the long-term, narrative and dialogic Gestalt therapy treatment of a transwoman, ‘Inocencia’, who has been living as a female for more than a dozen years. She chooses sexual reassignment without experiencing dislike of her male anatomy, and privileges instead emergent lived experience as the basis of her decision. The validity of the artificially binary diagnostic concept of gender dysphoria is called into question. Key words: transgender, gender dysphoria, case study, gender reassignment surgery, confluence, internal support. Note: Some identifying information in this case study, including the name, has been altered to protect the patient’s confidentiality."
{"title":"‘Inocencia’: case study of a transgender woman without gender dysphoria preparing for gender reassignment surgery","authors":"John L. Bennett","doi":"10.53667/ymrt9159","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.53667/ymrt9159","url":null,"abstract":"\"Abstract: In certain jurisdictions psychotherapists serve as the gatekeepers to sexual reassignment surgery. Therapists are traditionally charged with assessing the existence of long-term gender dysphoria in their transgender patients as the criterion for access to surgery. This case presentation explores the long-term, narrative and dialogic Gestalt therapy treatment of a transwoman, ‘Inocencia’, who has been living as a female for more than a dozen years. She chooses sexual reassignment without experiencing dislike of her male anatomy, and privileges instead emergent lived experience as the basis of her decision. The validity of the artificially binary diagnostic concept of gender dysphoria is called into question. Key words: transgender, gender dysphoria, case study, gender reassignment surgery, confluence, internal support. Note: Some identifying information in this case study, including the name, has been altered to protect the patient’s confidentiality.\"","PeriodicalId":103162,"journal":{"name":"British Gestalt Journal","volume":"46 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2010-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"134357878","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: Narcissistic clients are easily shamed and can rapidly spiral down into a ‘self-hating’ depression in which they see themselves as totally worthless. Unlike most other types of depressions, a self-hating depression can come and go rapidly in response to external criticism or praise. This article describes how to use the Gestalt therapy concept of figure/ ground formation in order to facilitate a quick shift in the client’s awareness away from what is perceived as shameful about the self to what is authentically positive. Key words: shame, figure/ground formation, narcissism, self-hating depression."
{"title":"Undoing the shame spiral: working with a narcissistic client trapped in a self-hating depression","authors":"E. Greenberg","doi":"10.53667/veez9889","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.53667/veez9889","url":null,"abstract":"\"Abstract: Narcissistic clients are easily shamed and can rapidly spiral down into a ‘self-hating’ depression in which they see themselves as totally worthless. Unlike most other types of depressions, a self-hating depression can come and go rapidly in response to external criticism or praise. This article describes how to use the Gestalt therapy concept of figure/ ground formation in order to facilitate a quick shift in the client’s awareness away from what is perceived as shameful about the self to what is authentically positive. Key words: shame, figure/ground formation, narcissism, self-hating depression.\"","PeriodicalId":103162,"journal":{"name":"British Gestalt Journal","volume":"10 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2010-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123274728","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: John Morss has argued that Gestalt therapy is ‘properly anti-developmental’. He presents a deconstructionist challenge to the integration of developmental theory within Gestalt therapy. I explore the case for and against the integration of developmental theory. The paper teases out some paradoxical themes in Perls, Hefferline and Goodman’s original conception of Gestalt therapy and searches for a developmental theory that is consistent with Gestalt therapy. The process-based theory of self development proposed by Kegan provides one possibility for the resolution of these paradoxical themes. I also address the deconstruc- tionist challenge to the universality of such a developmental theory. Key words: developmental theory, self-development, disembedding, deconstructionist, uni- versality, Kegan, Piaget."
{"title":"Paradoxical themes of development: the case of developmental theory in Gestalt therapy","authors":"Bruce Kenofer","doi":"10.53667/rbvs2061","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.53667/rbvs2061","url":null,"abstract":"\"Abstract: John Morss has argued that Gestalt therapy is ‘properly anti-developmental’. He presents a deconstructionist challenge to the integration of developmental theory within Gestalt therapy. I explore the case for and against the integration of developmental theory. The paper teases out some paradoxical themes in Perls, Hefferline and Goodman’s original conception of Gestalt therapy and searches for a developmental theory that is consistent with Gestalt therapy. The process-based theory of self development proposed by Kegan provides one possibility for the resolution of these paradoxical themes. I also address the deconstruc- tionist challenge to the universality of such a developmental theory. Key words: developmental theory, self-development, disembedding, deconstructionist, uni- versality, Kegan, Piaget.\"","PeriodicalId":103162,"journal":{"name":"British Gestalt Journal","volume":"13 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2010-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127859411","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}
"Note: This paper represents an abbreviated version of the 2010 Marianne Fry Lecture which I gave in Bristol, UK, on 17 July 2010. I am deeply grateful to the 100 or so people who attended and gave such positive feedback combined with requests for a ‘user’s guide’ to the praxis implications arising from the philosophical and epistemological issues raised in the lecture. (For an online recording of the lecture visit the Marianne Fry website by following this link: http://www.mariannefrylectures.co.uk/28/2010-lecture-record.html). In particular I want to appreciate the direct contribution of Christine Stevens, BGJ editor, in firmly steering me towards an ‘as simple as possible description of the model and action practices’, rather than indulging my predilection for more esoteric musings. This paper is written with Christine’s advice very much at the forefront of my mind. Abstract: This paper uses the terms ‘will’ and ‘grace’ to describe a dialectical tension between linear and non-linear change processes. The author argues that it is important to avoid polarisation and instead recognise that both aspects are always present, albeit in differing degrees with differing figure-ground orientations, in all change processes. A definition of liminal space is offered as a point where both will and grace are conjoined in a transformational process aligned with the emerging situation. It is proposed that historically, classical Gestalt psychotherapy theory and training tended towards a will-orientated change process, while recent relational formulations have emphasised grace. The author articulates and defines the action practices and procedural competencies that are supportive of gracious living and also provides a new formulation of the Gestalt cycle that integrates the classical and relational styles of Gestalt psychotherapy theory and praxis. Key words: Gestalt psychotherapy, relational, liminal, transformation, linear and non-linear change."
{"title":"The liminal space and twelve action practices for gracious living","authors":"Sally Denham‐Vaughan","doi":"10.53667/tvlr9025","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.53667/tvlr9025","url":null,"abstract":"\"Note: This paper represents an abbreviated version of the 2010 Marianne Fry Lecture which I gave in Bristol, UK, on 17 July 2010. I am deeply grateful to the 100 or so people who attended and gave such positive feedback combined with requests for a ‘user’s guide’ to the praxis implications arising from the philosophical and epistemological issues raised in the lecture. (For an online recording of the lecture visit the Marianne Fry website by following this link: http://www.mariannefrylectures.co.uk/28/2010-lecture-record.html). In particular I want to appreciate the direct contribution of Christine Stevens, BGJ editor, in firmly steering me towards an ‘as simple as possible description of the model and action practices’, rather than indulging my predilection for more esoteric musings. This paper is written with Christine’s advice very much at the forefront of my mind. Abstract: This paper uses the terms ‘will’ and ‘grace’ to describe a dialectical tension between linear and non-linear change processes. The author argues that it is important to avoid polarisation and instead recognise that both aspects are always present, albeit in differing degrees with differing figure-ground orientations, in all change processes. A definition of liminal space is offered as a point where both will and grace are conjoined in a transformational process aligned with the emerging situation. It is proposed that historically, classical Gestalt psychotherapy theory and training tended towards a will-orientated change process, while recent relational formulations have emphasised grace. The author articulates and defines the action practices and procedural competencies that are supportive of gracious living and also provides a new formulation of the Gestalt cycle that integrates the classical and relational styles of Gestalt psychotherapy theory and praxis. Key words: Gestalt psychotherapy, relational, liminal, transformation, linear and non-linear change.\"","PeriodicalId":103162,"journal":{"name":"British Gestalt Journal","volume":"106 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2010-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133438917","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 outlines key issues in the contemporary educational landscape and argues that radical traditions, including Gestalt, have much to offer educators and school systems struggling to balance the growth needs of their students and staff alongside environmental pressures to implement rigid, constraining and depersonalised policy impera- tives. Some examples are offered of small scale initiatives that can make a palpable difference to the educational experience of students and staff and support human flourishing. Key words: educational policy, educational change, student voice, public spaces, globalisa- tion."
{"title":"Reclaiming the radical legacy of Gestalt education in contemporary educational practice","authors":"B. Harris","doi":"10.53667/zijf4854","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.53667/zijf4854","url":null,"abstract":"\"Abstract: This paper outlines key issues in the contemporary educational landscape and argues that radical traditions, including Gestalt, have much to offer educators and school systems struggling to balance the growth needs of their students and staff alongside environmental pressures to implement rigid, constraining and depersonalised policy impera- tives. Some examples are offered of small scale initiatives that can make a palpable difference to the educational experience of students and staff and support human flourishing. Key words: educational policy, educational change, student voice, public spaces, globalisa- tion.\"","PeriodicalId":103162,"journal":{"name":"British Gestalt Journal","volume":"103 12","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2010-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"113954483","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 is based on a presentation delivered at the Roots IV Conference in Hungary, 2009. It explores the special world of gifted children and the unique stresses and challenges they face. A central challenge is finding a balance between their natural wish to stand out and show the world their special knowledge and abilities, alongside their wish to integrate, to belong and be accepted by their peers. This paper conceptualises a Gestalt view of the dilemmas faced by gifted children and relates these to the Gestalt concept of shame. Case material from Gestalt groups facilitated by the author concludes the paper. Key words: gifted children, giftedness, gifted education, overexcitabilities, polarities, shame, school."
{"title":"To glow and stay connected: Gifted children and Gestalt","authors":"Tali Mirkin","doi":"10.53667/gwvl9075","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.53667/gwvl9075","url":null,"abstract":"\"Abstract: This article is based on a presentation delivered at the Roots IV Conference in Hungary, 2009. It explores the special world of gifted children and the unique stresses and challenges they face. A central challenge is finding a balance between their natural wish to stand out and show the world their special knowledge and abilities, alongside their wish to integrate, to belong and be accepted by their peers. This paper conceptualises a Gestalt view of the dilemmas faced by gifted children and relates these to the Gestalt concept of shame. Case material from Gestalt groups facilitated by the author concludes the paper. Key words: gifted children, giftedness, gifted education, overexcitabilities, polarities, shame, school.\"","PeriodicalId":103162,"journal":{"name":"British Gestalt Journal","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2010-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130303929","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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