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Title: The Gestalt Approach and Eye Witness to Therapy, by Frederick S. Perls, Fritz Perls ISBN: 0-8314-0034-X Publisher: Science & Behavior Books Pub. Date: June, 1973 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4 (4 reviews)
Rating: 4
Summary: The Gestalt Approach & Eye Witness to Therapy
Comment: I HAVE A BOOK WITH THE SAME NAME WITH THIS ON THE COVER,THE LAST AND MOST COMPREHENSIVE WORK BY THE GENIUS WHO FATHERED GESTALT THERAP, AND CAN NOT FIND THIS IN YOUR BOOKS SHOWN I WOULD LIKE TO SELL THIS POCKETBOOK NOW. The author is the same .
Rating: 5
Summary: Simplemente maravilloso
Comment: Este es mi libro favorito de los que ha escrito Perls. A mi juicio la síntesis de su trabajo y enseñanza es inmejorable. Para mí es material de consulta permanente.
Es un "must" para los que están interesados en acompañar sus procesos de terapia gestalt con los principios y fundamentos que subyacen a este mágico enfoque.
Rating: 4
Summary: Essays and Transcripts
Comment: In an interview with Adelaide Bry, Perls refused to answer when asked what Gestalt Therapy was. He commented that he hated intellectualizing, and instead walked her through some exercises to demonstrate the integrative rather than the analytical nature of a gestalt-based approach. It's an interesting moment, and sheds some potential light on the best way to read this book.
Essentially what Perls believed was that in order to make intelligent and healthy decisions, you have to make conscious decisions. So the goal of therapy is to bring all the issues at play into consciousness so that by being aware of all the factors involved, real choices can be made in an informed fashion. He used theatrical techniques and group therapy to help his patients achieve their goals.
Perls is reported to have viewed the essays in the first portion of the book (The Gestalt Approach) as outdated, and instead wished that he could have made a film to convey his ideas. There are seven essays, which lay out the basic principles behind his theories and ideas:
Foundations
Neurotic Mechanisms
Here Comes the Neurotic
Here and Now Therapy
Peeling the Onion
Shuttling, Psychodrama, and Confusion
Who is Listening?
I would tend to agree (with Perls' implied message) that reading the transcripts of group therapy sessions in the second part of the book (Eye Witness to Therapy) is much more illuminating for somebody who wants to get some insight into what really is involved in Gestalt Therapy.
For me at least, as a layman, it was much easier to get a feel for what was involved by reading the flow between the patients and the therapist in group than it was to digest the message in essay form.
Thought-provoking.
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Title: Gestalt Therapy Integrated : Contours of Theory & Practice by Erving Polster, Miriam Polster ISBN: 0394710061 Publisher: Vintage Pub. Date: 12 July, 1974 List Price(USD): $12.00 |
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Title: Gestalt Therapy Verbatim by Frederick S. Perls, Joe Wysong, Michael Vincent Miller ISBN: 0939266164 Publisher: Gestalt Journal Pr Pub. Date: 01 February, 1992 List Price(USD): $30.00 |
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Title: Creative Process Gestalt Therapy by Joseph Zinker ISBN: 0394725670 Publisher: Vintage Pub. Date: 12 July, 1978 List Price(USD): $14.00 |
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Title: Peeling the Onion : A Gestalt Therapy Manual for Clients by Bud Feder ISBN: 0966310918 Publisher: Bud Feder Publishing Pub. Date: August, 1982 List Price(USD): $6.00 |
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Title: In and Out the Garbage Pail by Frederick S. Perls ISBN: 0553202537 Publisher: Bantam Books Pub. Date: June, 1981 List Price(USD): $2.95 |
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