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A practical guide to the skills and techniques of the gestalt approach used at each stage of the therapeutic process, from the therapeutic relationship, assessment and treatment considerations, to managing risk, resourcing the client and ending therapy. Underpinned throughout by key gestalt principles and an awareness of difference and diversity, and features including case examples and suggested activities and reflective exercises.
Updated in its Fifth Edition, it includes:
- New content on difference and power and virtual therapy
- New chapters on the change process, the concept of polarities, neurodiversity, the erotic, therapist self-disclosure and stuckness in therapy.
This book is a must-read for trainees on gestalt, humanistic and integrative counselling and psychotherapy courses, and for qualified practitioners needing an accessible introduction to gestalt skills in practice.
List of contents
Part One: Gestalt Therapy in Practice
1. The Important First Steps
2. Phenomenology and Field Theory
3. Awareness
4. The Change Process
5. The Therapeutic Relationship
6. Making Contact
7. Polarities
8. Therapist Self-Disclosure
9. Assessment and Diagnosis
10. Assessment and Management of Risk
11. Treatment Considerations
12. Strengthening Support
13. Shame
14. Difference and Power
15. Neurodiversity
16. Experimenting
17. Unfinished Business
18. Transference and Counter-transference
19. The Erotic in Therapy
20. Embodied Process
21. Working with Dreams
22. When you feel stuck
23. Ethical Dilemmas
24. Ending the Journey
Part Two: Specialised Areas of Practice
25. Resourcing the Client
26. Depression and Anxiety
27. Trauma Part 1: Assessing and Stabilizing
28. Trauma Part 2: Processing and Integrating
29. Brief Therapy
30. Working Virtually30
31. Spirituality in Counselling
32. The Reflective Practioner - Research and Gestalt
About the author
Phil Joyce is a UKCP registered psychotherapist and a BACP senior accredited supervisor in private practice. He works in West London as a trainer, supervisor, psychotherapist and consultant He was formerly an approved psychiatric social worker in London and has considerable experience of multidisciplinary teams in mental health. He has been a primary tutor on the MSc course in Gestalt Psychotherapy at Metanoia Institute for over 15 years, and has given many gestalt presentations at international conferences over the last 15 years during that time. He specializes in trauma treatment and is an accredited EMDR Supervisor and Consultant. His other abiding interest is in the transpersonal dimensions of human experience.
