"Abstract: Drawing on insights from neuroscience research, particularly in respect of autonomic arousal, brain structures, and neural plasticity, this article considers the impact of recent developments in the treatment of trauma, and ways of integrating new under standing with current Gestalt methodology. Sensorimotor trauma therapy offers some new concepts through which safe and effective trauma treatment can be reconsidered. Through the use of clinical examples, the article discusses the application of three sensorimotor concepts, integrating them with Gestalt practice. There is also a brief description of the role of defensive systems in trauma work from a sensorimotor perspective. Relational aspects of this way of working are integrated into the text. Key words: trauma, sensorimotor, resources, window of tolerance, ANS arousal, defensive systems, figure formation, fixed gestalts, creative adjustment."
{"title":"On safe ground: using sensorimotor approaches in trauma","authors":"Miriam Taylor","doi":"10.53667/pynz9827","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.53667/pynz9827","url":null,"abstract":"\"Abstract: Drawing on insights from neuroscience research, particularly in respect of autonomic arousal, brain structures, and neural plasticity, this article considers the impact of recent developments in the treatment of trauma, and ways of integrating new under standing with current Gestalt methodology. Sensorimotor trauma therapy offers some new concepts through which safe and effective trauma treatment can be reconsidered. Through the use of clinical examples, the article discusses the application of three sensorimotor concepts, integrating them with Gestalt practice. There is also a brief description of the role of defensive systems in trauma work from a sensorimotor perspective. Relational aspects of this way of working are integrated into the text. Key words: trauma, sensorimotor, resources, window of tolerance, ANS arousal, defensive systems, figure formation, fixed gestalts, creative adjustment.\"","PeriodicalId":103162,"journal":{"name":"British Gestalt Journal","volume":"94 2","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114045584","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 this article I focus on the theoretical developments of Professor Franz Ruppert on the topics of trauma and attachment, and his adaptation of the constellations process originally developed by the German philosopher and psychotherapist Bert Hellinger. My Gestalt background encourages me to seek connections between Ruppert’s work and a Gestalt approach. I will draw on other theories and comments on the topic to give context. Key words: Gestalt, constellations, trauma, attachment, phenomenology, symbiosis, auton- omy, symbiotic trauma, entanglement."
{"title":"Trauma constellations with a Gestalt perspective","authors":"Vivian Broughton","doi":"10.53667/nabx7777","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.53667/nabx7777","url":null,"abstract":"\"Abstract: In this article I focus on the theoretical developments of Professor Franz Ruppert on the topics of trauma and attachment, and his adaptation of the constellations process originally developed by the German philosopher and psychotherapist Bert Hellinger. My Gestalt background encourages me to seek connections between Ruppert’s work and a Gestalt approach. I will draw on other theories and comments on the topic to give context. Key words: Gestalt, constellations, trauma, attachment, phenomenology, symbiosis, auton- omy, symbiotic trauma, entanglement.\"","PeriodicalId":103162,"journal":{"name":"British Gestalt Journal","volume":"12 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129243516","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 article is a response to Vivian Broughton’s article on Gestalt and trauma- orientated constellation work published in this issue of the BGJ. It was originally submitted as a letter to the Editor, but we decided due to the length and breadth of its scope to publish it as an article in its own right. The field of constellations work is large and growing, with a range of approaches. Barbara Morgan, who holds a different perspective to Vivian Broughton, questions how compatible Franz Ruppert’s work is with Gestalt theory and whether it can actually be referred to as constellation work at all. She argues that Bert Hellinger’s constellation work, which has developed over the years, is focused on the phenomenological inclusion of the wider energetic field and to see it as an intrapsychic process is to miss the essence of what the work is about. Key words: constellations, Ruppert, Hellinger, phenomenology, energetic fields, Gestalt."
{"title":"What is constellation work? Another perspective: a response to Vivian Broughton","authors":"Barbara Morgan","doi":"10.53667/mxmi5543","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.53667/mxmi5543","url":null,"abstract":"\"Editor’s note: This article is a response to Vivian Broughton’s article on Gestalt and trauma- orientated constellation work published in this issue of the BGJ. It was originally submitted as a letter to the Editor, but we decided due to the length and breadth of its scope to publish it as an article in its own right. The field of constellations work is large and growing, with a range of approaches. Barbara Morgan, who holds a different perspective to Vivian Broughton, questions how compatible Franz Ruppert’s work is with Gestalt theory and whether it can actually be referred to as constellation work at all. She argues that Bert Hellinger’s constellation work, which has developed over the years, is focused on the phenomenological inclusion of the wider energetic field and to see it as an intrapsychic process is to miss the essence of what the work is about. Key words: constellations, Ruppert, Hellinger, phenomenology, energetic fields, Gestalt.\"","PeriodicalId":103162,"journal":{"name":"British Gestalt Journal","volume":"73 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"117304487","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 this article, I intend to create a deeper understanding of the functions and value of silence, as well as exploring how we might work with silence to better support and enhance the therapeutic ground. I shall explore the phenomenon of silence, by looking to Western society, the wider cultural field, and to Gestalt Therapy Theory (GTT). I argue that the phenomenon of silence travels along a continuum, and requires the same amount of investigation and understanding as its relational counterpart, dialogue. I go back to our basic Gestalt theoretical tenets to see how these can support us in investigating the structure of our client’s situation even further, in order to gain a deeper understanding of their unique silent phenomenology, as well as our own. Key words: Gestalt therapy, silence, interruptions to contact, fertile void, dialogue, phenomen- ology, inclusion, groups, culture, creativity, polarities, relationship."
{"title":"Beyond words: the function and value of silence in therapy","authors":"K. Merrick","doi":"10.53667/mixt4815","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.53667/mixt4815","url":null,"abstract":"\"Abstract: In this article, I intend to create a deeper understanding of the functions and value of silence, as well as exploring how we might work with silence to better support and enhance the therapeutic ground. I shall explore the phenomenon of silence, by looking to Western society, the wider cultural field, and to Gestalt Therapy Theory (GTT). I argue that the phenomenon of silence travels along a continuum, and requires the same amount of investigation and understanding as its relational counterpart, dialogue. I go back to our basic Gestalt theoretical tenets to see how these can support us in investigating the structure of our client’s situation even further, in order to gain a deeper understanding of their unique silent phenomenology, as well as our own. Key words: Gestalt therapy, silence, interruptions to contact, fertile void, dialogue, phenomen- ology, inclusion, groups, culture, creativity, polarities, relationship.\"","PeriodicalId":103162,"journal":{"name":"British Gestalt Journal","volume":"107 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123241989","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 revises the basic concept of aggression in Gestalt therapy, considering the development of society from Fritz Perls’ time to nowadays. The anthropological turn of Perls is outlined (aggression, conflict, and intentionality of contact are the concepts that he linked), and the proposed evolution of the concept of aggression is in line with this original epistemological perspective. The need for rootedness is considered as the contemporary equivalent of the social need for aggression, a requirement that Perls identified in the 1950s. Treatment for this new form of social need is proposed as focused on the ground rather than on the figure. A clinical example is finally provided. Key words: aggression, conflict, intentionality of contact, need for rootedness, postmodern society, ground, now-for-next."
{"title":"From the need for aggression to the need for rootedness: a Gestalt postmodern clinical and social perspective on conflict","authors":"Margherita Spagnuolo Lobb","doi":"10.53667/bfkl6226","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.53667/bfkl6226","url":null,"abstract":"\"Abstract: This article revises the basic concept of aggression in Gestalt therapy, considering the development of society from Fritz Perls’ time to nowadays. The anthropological turn of Perls is outlined (aggression, conflict, and intentionality of contact are the concepts that he linked), and the proposed evolution of the concept of aggression is in line with this original epistemological perspective. The need for rootedness is considered as the contemporary equivalent of the social need for aggression, a requirement that Perls identified in the 1950s. Treatment for this new form of social need is proposed as focused on the ground rather than on the figure. A clinical example is finally provided. Key words: aggression, conflict, intentionality of contact, need for rootedness, postmodern society, ground, now-for-next.\"","PeriodicalId":103162,"journal":{"name":"British Gestalt Journal","volume":"3 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129384527","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 opening keynote lecture given at the Paul Goodman Centenary conference paints a vivid picture of Goodman’s multifaceted personality within the context of his time. It illustrates how he lived – through his political, literary and pedagogic activities – and furthered his view of the core tenet of and his personal contribution to Gestalt therapy, namely: the free, self-responsible and socially committed individual, a challenger of institu- tional constraints. Key words: Goodman, self-responsibility, social commitment, institutional constraints."
{"title":"Paul Goodman, 100 years","authors":"Stefan Blankertz","doi":"10.53667/blfn6855","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.53667/blfn6855","url":null,"abstract":"\"Editor’s note: This opening keynote lecture given at the Paul Goodman Centenary conference paints a vivid picture of Goodman’s multifaceted personality within the context of his time. It illustrates how he lived – through his political, literary and pedagogic activities – and furthered his view of the core tenet of and his personal contribution to Gestalt therapy, namely: the free, self-responsible and socially committed individual, a challenger of institu- tional constraints. Key words: Goodman, self-responsibility, social commitment, institutional constraints.\"","PeriodicalId":103162,"journal":{"name":"British Gestalt Journal","volume":"35 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124330172","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 author calls for a reconsideration of the core values on which the Gestalt paradigm is based and discusses implications for training Gestalt practitioners. These values are gathered into four assumptions: (1) Health can only be defined relationally and holistically; (2) Embodied experience should be included in important decision making; (3) Diversity is essential to all development; and (4) Sustainability depends on sharing leadership. The article also proposes a set of competencies, developed from these values and built into the training curriculum at The Relational Center in the US, that can help practitioners lead individuals, groups, and communities along pathways toward compassionate, democratic, and sustain- able relationships. Key words: relational, social movement, leadership, Gestalt values, ethics, cultural context."
{"title":"The relational movement","authors":"M. Fairfield","doi":"10.53667/hemj8228","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.53667/hemj8228","url":null,"abstract":"\"Abstract: The author calls for a reconsideration of the core values on which the Gestalt paradigm is based and discusses implications for training Gestalt practitioners. These values are gathered into four assumptions: (1) Health can only be defined relationally and holistically; (2) Embodied experience should be included in important decision making; (3) Diversity is essential to all development; and (4) Sustainability depends on sharing leadership. The article also proposes a set of competencies, developed from these values and built into the training curriculum at The Relational Center in the US, that can help practitioners lead individuals, groups, and communities along pathways toward compassionate, democratic, and sustain- able relationships. Key words: relational, social movement, leadership, Gestalt values, ethics, cultural context.\"","PeriodicalId":103162,"journal":{"name":"British Gestalt Journal","volume":"38 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131407960","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 a progressive phenomenological enquiry into ‘contact’. It leads us back to that most originary, non-constructed, and totally-given condition which Merleau-Ponty calls ‘primordial contact’. This is the source for what we call our ‘human nature’. The author suggests that the Gestalt therapist is called upon to embrace a lifestyle which embodies this most basic intuition of the world. This will facilitate her/his ability to engage with those closed ‘acquired worlds’ of clients, to speak from within those viewpoints, while at the same time maintaining a solid grip on their own world. Openness to dialogue is the basic posture of the Gestalt therapist, informed by humility and sustained by thankfulness. It is, however, quite clear that constituted speech, as it operates in daily life, assumes that the decisive step of expression has been taken. Our view of man will remain superficial so long as we fail to go back to that origin, so long as we fail to find, beneath the chatter of words, the primordial silence, and as long as we do not describe the action which breaks this silence. The spoken word is a gesture and its meaning a world. (Merleau-Ponty, 1986, p. 184; F214)1 Key words: acquired world, awareness, contact, dialogue, perception, transcendence, primordial contact."
{"title":"Breaching the silence: accessing ‘acquired worlds’ at the primordial level","authors":"D. Kennedy","doi":"10.53667/kjth6123","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.53667/kjth6123","url":null,"abstract":"\"Abstract: This article is a progressive phenomenological enquiry into ‘contact’. It leads us back to that most originary, non-constructed, and totally-given condition which Merleau-Ponty calls ‘primordial contact’. This is the source for what we call our ‘human nature’. The author suggests that the Gestalt therapist is called upon to embrace a lifestyle which embodies this most basic intuition of the world. This will facilitate her/his ability to engage with those closed ‘acquired worlds’ of clients, to speak from within those viewpoints, while at the same time maintaining a solid grip on their own world. Openness to dialogue is the basic posture of the Gestalt therapist, informed by humility and sustained by thankfulness. It is, however, quite clear that constituted speech, as it operates in daily life, assumes that the decisive step of expression has been taken. Our view of man will remain superficial so long as we fail to go back to that origin, so long as we fail to find, beneath the chatter of words, the primordial silence, and as long as we do not describe the action which breaks this silence. The spoken word is a gesture and its meaning a world. (Merleau-Ponty, 1986, p. 184; F214)1 Key words: acquired world, awareness, contact, dialogue, perception, transcendence, primordial contact.\"","PeriodicalId":103162,"journal":{"name":"British Gestalt Journal","volume":"3 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":"125151864","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 article is a revised version of a lecture given at the Winter Residential Training Program of the Pacific Gestalt Institute in March 2012, Santa Barbara, CA. Abstract: In recent years, Western science and psychotherapy research have begun to discover what has been a long tradition in Buddhism: on the one hand, the striving for high self- esteem supports individualist and narcissistic tendencies and brings about a number of risks. On the other hand, it is increasingly recognised that compassionate acts and expressions enhance the wellbeing of others as well as that of the compassionate person. Moreover, it has been shown that the compassion one feels for oneself has positive emotional effects and boosts a person’s resilience. Key words: compassion, connectedness, emotional regulation, individualism, resilience, self- compassion, self-esteem."
{"title":"Self-esteem, compassion and self-compassion: from individualism to connectedness","authors":"Frank-M. Staemmler","doi":"10.53667/oejp7521","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.53667/oejp7521","url":null,"abstract":"\"Editor’s note: This article is a revised version of a lecture given at the Winter Residential Training Program of the Pacific Gestalt Institute in March 2012, Santa Barbara, CA. Abstract: In recent years, Western science and psychotherapy research have begun to discover what has been a long tradition in Buddhism: on the one hand, the striving for high self- esteem supports individualist and narcissistic tendencies and brings about a number of risks. On the other hand, it is increasingly recognised that compassionate acts and expressions enhance the wellbeing of others as well as that of the compassionate person. Moreover, it has been shown that the compassion one feels for oneself has positive emotional effects and boosts a person’s resilience. Key words: compassion, connectedness, emotional regulation, individualism, resilience, self- compassion, self-esteem.\"","PeriodicalId":103162,"journal":{"name":"British Gestalt Journal","volume":"1 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":"130570257","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: With reference to other Gestalt writers, this article considers Gestalt therapy’s potential as an enlightenment practice. The author highlights the experience of resolution, and the importance of confirming clients in their existence. Key words: enlightenment practice, meditation, isness, confirmation, resolution, figure, ground, kinship."
{"title":"Gestalt therapy as an enlightenment practice","authors":"Mike Turton","doi":"10.53667/nnup4840","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.53667/nnup4840","url":null,"abstract":"\"Abstract: With reference to other Gestalt writers, this article considers Gestalt therapy’s potential as an enlightenment practice. The author highlights the experience of resolution, and the importance of confirming clients in their existence. Key words: enlightenment practice, meditation, isness, confirmation, resolution, figure, ground, kinship.\"","PeriodicalId":103162,"journal":{"name":"British Gestalt Journal","volume":"19 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":"120892274","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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