Manchester Gestalt Centre: 26 books

The ‘empty chair’ experiment has had mixed fortunes in Gestalt Therapy. Once it was a central method, with Fritz Perls naming it as one of his essentials, along with a ‘hot seat’ and tissues. It was so prevalent that it got taken as defining the approach, and taught in that way on counselling...

This paper presents a theory of groups and group psychotherapy, based on the Gestalt Therapy theory of Self, and informed by present-day thinking about human intersubjectivity, especially the work of Daniel Stern. In both these approaches, self is seen as arising from what Stern calls the ‘intersubjective...

I love working with dreams. I have found that they have the capacity to move therapy work on to a new level, both in individual and group therapy. They speak from a place that is outside the familiar, and often to what is not being attended to, or avoided in life and therapy. In this paper, I start...

When I do therapy in a new venue, the first thing I do is to take away the clocks. When clients ask me why I do this, I tell them that clocks foster the illusion that time is a given, moving at a regular speed. An hour’s session with one client at one time has an experienced duration that is very...

What does it mean for us to meet? Is it a matter of us being here together in the same place, or seeing each other, or you hearing me? How much is it just a meeting of my interpretation of you, while you are meeting with your interpretation of me? Are we just in a hall of mirrors, reflection meeting...

We are in a world that is increasingly complex. Most of us inhabit two worlds that seem very different, the immediate experiential world and a virtual cyber-world of e-mail, text, social media. Gestalt Therapy emphasises ‘contact’ and ‘awareness’, and the question arises how much we can talk...

In this paper, I examine the meaning of ‘field’ in Gestalt Therapy, and what a field orientation means for the theory and practice of therapy. I also look at what philosophical principles can add to or take away from the clarity of the approach.

In this paper, I want to develop a Gestalt field-oriented understanding of therapeutic work with couples. The approach can be extended to work with families, but that is beyond the scope of the present paper. The basic field awareness is that just as the activity of each person in a couple can only...

რას ნიშნავს ჩვენთვის შეხვედრა? აქ, ამ საერთო სივრცეში ერთდროულად ყოფნას? თუ იმას, როცა ერთმანეთს ვხედავთ ან ერთმანეთის...

Когда я делаю терапию в новом месте, первое, что я делаю, это убираю часы. Когда клиенты спрашивают меня, почему я это делаю, я говорю им, что часы способствуют иллюзии,...

В чем смысл эмоций в терапии? Когда важно сосредоточиться на «чувствах», и когда это непродуктивно? Во многом это кажется нелепым вопросом, поскольку «чувства» часто воспринимаются...

ამ ნაშრომში წყვილთან თერაპიული მუშაობის ველზე ორიენტირებული გეშტალტ ხედვა მინდა წარმოგიდგენოთ. აღნიშნული მიდგომა...

რა მნიშვნელობა აქვს თერაპიაში ემოციას? როდისაა საჭირო „გრძნობებზე“ ყურადღების გამახვილება და როდის ხდება ის კონტრპროდუქტიული?...

В этой статье я исследую значение концепции поля в гештальт-терапии, а также значение ориентации на поле для теории и практики терапии. Также я рассматриваю, какой...