Translator's Preface
Author's Preface

Part 1: A Map for Your Gestalt Therapy Journey: Foundations and Theoretical Assumptions

01 Gestalt Therapy: A Very Brief History
02 So, what is gestalt?
03 And what is a gestalt?
04 Perceptual Principles of Gestalt Psychology
05 Foreground and Background
06 Awareness and Awareness Continuum
07 Contact
08 Now-Here
09 Creative Adaptation
10 Becoming Yourself and Yourself
11 The Structure of the Self: Id, Ego, and Personality Functions
12 Holism
13 Individualism and the Field Paradigm
14 Contact boundary
15 Gestalt Experience Cycles
16 Resistance, blocking, and regulation of contact
17 Investigation Process
18 Background Investigation
19 Reversal
20 fighters
21 Fusion
22 Bias
23 Desensitization
24 Self-consciousness/Self-inspection
25 Continuity of Contact
26 Creative Indifference
27 Unsolved Problems: The Zeigarnik Effect
28 The Paradox of Change Theory
29 The Aesthetics of Gestalt Therapy
30 Support as an 'Enabler'

Part 2: Beginning Your Treatment Journey: Preparation and Initial Assessment

31 Treatment environment
32 Contracts and Expectations
33 Contact functions: formation and breakdown of contacts
34 Evaluation and Process Diagnosis
35 How clients 'represent with their bodies'
36 Awareness Area
37 Emergence of Relationship Themes
38 Planning Your Treatment Journey
39 Assessing Suicide Risk

Part 3 The Therapeutic Journey: The Three Pillars of Gestalt Therapy

Chapter 1.
Explore the client's situation or field
40 Situations, Scenes, Living Spaces, Living Worlds
41 Co-creation and Temporality
42 Treatment Sessions as a Current Situation
Chapter 43: Organizing desires, and desires organizing chapters.
44 Situation ID
45 Support in the Relational Chapter
Chapter 46 Shame as a Function
Sensing Chapter 47
48 Looking at the chapter from a developmental perspective
49 Development: A Lifelong Process
50 Developmental Theory: Six Basic Movements
51 Cultural Fields
52 Five Explorations
53 Language and Metaphor
Pay attention to the wider field of 54

Chapter 2.
Focusing on Experience: Phenomenology in Gestalt Therapy
55 What is Phenomenology?
56 Phenomenological Exploration
57 Orientation: Approaching My World
58 Transcendental Phenomenology and Husserl
59 Methodology of Phenomenological Reduction
60 Existential Phenomenology
61 Intersubjectivity
62 Pay attention to 'sensory feelings'
63 Energy and Vitality
64 Living Body
65 Recognize the whole
66 Boundary space

Chapter 3.
Conversation: What Emerges Through Relationships
67 What is a conversation?
68 I-You and I-It Relationships
Between 69
70 Inclusion and Empathy
71 Current
72 Confirm
73 Commitment to Dialogue
74 tuning
75 Ongoing Relationship Topics
76 Self-disclosure
77 Relational Transition
78 Rupture and Recovery
79 Living in a Relationship

Part 4: Becoming: Transitions Along the Journey

80 Gestalt Experiments
81 Experiments and Challenges
82 Experimental Methods
83 Polarity and Master/Servant
84 Two chairs and an empty chair
85 Assignments and Practice
86 Dream Work
87 Catharsis and Release
88 Attacks on the Environment
89 Trauma Work
90 Treatment Stages and Termination
91 Developing Awareness of Awareness

Part 5 Ethics and Values: A Key Milestone on Every Journey

92 Therapeutic boundaries
93 Relational Ethics
94 Therapeutic Uses of Touch
95 Non-exploitation
96 Therapist Support
97 Gestalt Supervision

Part 6: Evaluating: Destinations and Reflections

98 Beyond 1:1 and Group Therapy
99 Reflections and Reflections
100 On Uncertainty and Certainty

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