Recent literature has been pointing to the fact that, in the workplace, there has been a growing state of tension and conflict between the Baby Boomers, those between 55 and 37 years of age, and Generation X, those between 36 and 18 years of age. A study was conducted to see if there were any significant differences between the Boomers and the Xers in the extent to which they valued teams. The study yielded the unexpected result that the Xers were significantly more team-oriented than were the Boomers. A second study was immediately undertaken to see whether there were any significant differences in terms of individualism versus collectivism between the generations. The second study showed that the Xers were significantly more individualistic than the Boomers. The combined finding from both studies (i.e., that Generation Xis significantly more team-oriented and more individualistic than the Baby Boomers suggests that team building is as important as ever but must be con- ducted under a different paradigm.

Greenberg proposes a system of Gestalt diagnosis of Borderline, Narcissistic and Schizoid adaptations that focuses on what repeatedly becomes figure for the client during interactions with others. She reconceptualizes Borderline, Narcissistic and Schizoid personality disorders as relatively inflexible organizations of the organism/environment field that are made and remade at each moment at the contact boundary through figure/ground formation.

The purpose of the present study is to review the theoretical, strategic, and tactical/technical contributions of Gestalt therapy to the treatment of post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), and to examine its contributions to the professional literature.

Shame, both a universal human feeling and also one of the most potentially disorganizing of all affect experiences, has been relatively neglected in clinical writing until recent years and even today remains in unclear focus in much of our dominant clinical tradition and thinking about self- models. Both this neglect and this lack of focus are much clarified by a Gestalt model Of self-experience and self-process, a perspective which raises paradigmatic questions for our thinking about human nature and relational process.