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Publication Search

A list of publications in my library, sorted alphabetically by title

Publication Search allows you to find a book or article. Use the Category box to fillter between Article and Book.  Use the Select/Type box to search by title, start typing the name, or part of the name, of the book or aticle, into the box and this will filter to matching titles ...

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<p class="font_7" style="text-align: justify">Abstract:</p> <p class="font_7" style="text-align: justify">Adult survivors of abuse require a slower progression in treatment. Profoundly abused patients suffering from pre-oedipal conditions may become overstimulated using gestalt methods. This paper will focus on reducing stimulation in the patient using methods borrowed from modern psychoanalysis, which was developed by Hyman Spotnitz. The author argues for a combined approach that emphasizes support rather then frustration in the development of the treatment process.</p> <p class="font_7" style="text-align: justify">Key Words: adult survivors of abuse, gestalt therapy, modern psychoanalysis, stimulation reduction</p>
A Gentler Gestalt Therapy

A Gentler Gestalt Therapy: On Reducing Stimulation In Adult Survivors of Abuse

Author short name:

Andy Lapides

Author:

Andy Lapides 2011 A Gentler Gestalt Therapy: On Reducing Stimulation In Adult Survivors of Abuse, International Journal of Integrative Psychotherpy, Vol 2 No 2

<p class="font_7" style="text-align: justify">A Study of Thinking is a pioneering account of how human beings achieve a measure of rationality in spite of the constraints imposed by bias, limited attention and memory, and the risks of error imposed by pressures of time and ignorance. First published in 1956 and hailed at its appearance as a groundbreaking study, it is still read three decades later as a major contribution to our understanding of the mind.&nbsp;</p>
A Study of Thinking

A Study of Thinking

Author short name:

Jerome Bruner

Author:

Bruner, J., 1956:2017 A Study of Thinking. Taylor and Francis Group

<p class="font_7">“I am grateful for what I have learned from reading this book. Each author demonstrates that depressive experiences are field phenomena, contextually emergent and contextually supported, and affecting our environment.&nbsp;</p>
Absence Is the Bridge Between Us

Absence Is the Bridge Between Us: Gestalt Therapy Perspective on Depressive Experiences (Gestalt Therapy Book Series 4).

Author short name:

Gianni Francesetti

Author:

Francesetti, G., 2015. Absence Is the Bridge Between Us: Gestalt Therapy Perspective on Depressive Experiences. Kindle ed. s.l.:Istituto di Gestalt HCC

<p class="font_7">Many therapists can attest to the fact that adolescents can be difficult and frustating clients-problems are seldom well defined, clearly delineated symptoms are more exception than the rule, and troubling situations often involve the entire family. Gestalt therapist Mark McConville draws on his more than twenty years of professional experience to offer clinicians an effective model for understanding and treating adolescents.&nbsp;</p>
Adolescence

Adolescence: Psychotherapy and the Emergent Self

Author short name:

Mark McConville

Author:

McConville, M., 2013 Adolescence: Psychotherapy and the Emergent Self. Gestalt Press

<p class="font_7">Aggression, Time, and Understanding is the first book of Staemmler’s writings to be published in English. In the early sections of this book, Staemmler (supported by his Buddhist wife, Barbara) comprehensively explores and questions the traditional Gestalt therapy theory of aggression and proposes a new approach.</p>
Aggression Time and Understanding

Aggression, Time, and Understanding: Contributions to the Evolution of Gestalt Therapy.

Author short name:

Frank-M. Staemmler

Author:

Frank-M. Staemmler 2009 Aggression, Time, and Understanding: Contributions to the Evolution of Gestalt Therapy. Gestalt Press

<p class="font_7" style="text-align: justify">This introductory text provides an invaluable and accessible overview of the rapidly developing field of integrative psychotherapy, and offers a relational-developmental approach to theory and practice.&nbsp;</p>
An Introduction to Integrative Psychotherapy

An Introduction to Integrative Psychotherapy

Author short name:

Ken Evans

Author:

Evans, K., Gilbert, M., 2005 An Introduction to Integrative Psychotherapy. Bloomsbury Academic

<p class="font_7" style="text-align: justify">Attachment theory has been developed over the last fifty years as one way of understanding the foundations of our capacity and need to make and sustain relationships. It has made an important contribution, not only to the way that we view the development of the earliest relationships in our lives, but also to our understanding of the processes of separation and loss. The implications for psychotherapy in general are becoming clearer, and in this article specific attention is paid to ways in which it may be useful for Gestalt therapists to be mindful of key attachment concepts, how they may emerge in our work, and how they may be used therapeutically.</p>
Attachment Theory Some Implications for Gestalt Therapy

Attachment Theory: Some Implications for Gestalt Therapy

Author short name:

Neil Harris

Author:

Harris, N., 1996 Attachment Theory: Some Implications for Gestalt Therapy. British Gestalt Journal, 5.2 103-112

<p>Effective therapists need guiding models, but, paradoxically, the benefits of psychoanalytic psychotherapy may not flow from its espoused theories. Using an attachment framework, it is argued that psychoanalytic psychotherapy in common with all therapies has three principal components: an attachment relationship; meaning-making; and change-promotion. Secure and insecure models of attachment help understand how therapists guide the therapeutic relationship in helpful or unhelpful directions. Freedom of meaning-making is a mark of secure attachment. Change is promoted by placing clients in a �benign bind� characterised by: close engagement; discrepancy between client transferential expectations and therapist response; and exploration and verbal descriptions of the feelings arising from these discrepancies. An attachment meta-perspective helps reconcile apparent differences between differing psychoanalytic and non-psychoanalytic theoretical perspectives.</p> <p>Keywords: attachment theory; theory; psychoanalytic psychotherapy;</p> <p>attachment relationship; meaning-making; change promotion</p>
Attachment in the consulting room

Attachment in the consulting room: towards a theory of therapeutic change

Author short name:

Jeremy Holmes

Author:

Holmes, J., 2011 Attachment in the consulting room: towards a theory of therapeutic change, European Journal of Psychotherapy & Counselling, 13:2, 97-114

<p class="font_7">Called "the most significant addition to the body of Gestalt therapy literature in almost two decades," this collection of Yontef's writings encompasses the history and politics of Gestalt therapy.</p>
Awareness Dialogue and Process

Awareness Dialogue & Process: Essays on Gestalt Therapy.

Author short name:

Gary Yontef

Author:

Yontef, G. 1991 Awareness Dialogue & Process: Essays on Gestalt Therapy. The Gestalt Journal Press. Kindle Edition

<p>Abstract: This study explored how trainee therapists react to and handle client sexual attraction (SA) in their work. Qualitative interviews were conducted with 12 volunteer trainees of counselling psychology and psychotherapy who responded to an advert. Transcripts were analysed using constructivist grounded theory (GT). The conceptual stages developed highlight the difficulties trainees experience in relation to client sexual attraction: conflicting feelings and anxious professional beliefs encapsulated in moralistic reactions, culminating in defensive handling of sexual attraction. These psychological conditions seem to be a strategy for professional survival. The trainee experience is captured in the core category: Moralistic Responses to Sexual Attraction and Defensive Handling, associated with a climate of fear that client sexual attraction could potentially influence the therapist into behaving unethically. The study found that trainees believe that professionalism is free of sexual feelings whether these are client, therapist or mutual.</p>
Being seduced

Being seduced: Trainee therapists' reactions to and handling of client sexual attraction in therapy

Author short name:

Maria Luca

Author:

Luca, M., 2018 Being seduced: Trainee therapists' reactions to and handling of client sexual attraction in therapy. EJQRP Vol. 8, 23-33

<p class="font_8" style="text-align: justify">Beyond Disciplines: Evolving Research Methodology for the post-pandemic �New Normal�</p> <p class="font_8"><br></p> <p class="font_8" style="text-align: justify">Multidisciplinary and interdisciplinary research have become, if not a new normal, a significant part of the academic landscape in recent decades. But have these trends gone far enough? Are they studying what needs to be studied in ways that need to be studied to pave the way for the new normal ways of living beyond the COVID-19 pandemic? This short paper invites an even more fundamental step-back into the nature of humankind's evolving awareness and offers suggestions for enabling research that engages more deeply and impacts more relevantly.</p> <p class="font_8"><br></p> <p class="font_8"><br></p> <p class="font_8"><br></p>
Beyond Disciplines

Beyond Disciplines: Evolving Research Methodology for the post-pandemic 'New Normal'

Author short name:

Keith Beasly

Author:

Beasley, K. (2021). Beyond Disciplines: Evolving Research Methodology for the post-pandemic New Normal.


AcademiaLetters,Article2301. https://doi.org/10.20935/AL230

<p class="font_7">Beyond Empathy offers therapists a methodology for assisting people in rediscovering their ability to maintain genuine, contactful relationships and thus, better psychological health. The authors describe an integrative psychotherapy approach that they have developed and now teach at the Institute for Integrative Psychotherapy in New York City. It draws from Rogers' client-centered therapy, Berne's transactional analysis, Perls' Gestalt therapy, Kohut's self psychology, and the work of British object-relations theorists.&nbsp;</p>
Beyond Empathy

Beyond Empathy: A Therapy of Contact-in Relationships.

Author short name:

Richard G Erskine

Author:

Erskine, R., Moursund, J., Trautmann, R. 1999 Beyond Empathy: A Therapy of Contact-in Relationships. Taylor and Francis. Kindle Edition.

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