Exploring Masculinity, Sexuality, and Culture in Gestalt Therapy: An Autoethnography

ISBN-13: 9780367633066 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 166 str.

Adam Kincel

Opis

This book is an invitation to explore social and political issues within the psychotherapeutic framework. It is essential reading for Gestalt therapists, as well as readers interested in Gestalt approaches.

Recenzje

I think the book is an important, creative, thoughtful contribution to gestalt therapy research and practice... Adam's ability to intermingle history/culture/politics with specific moments-in-living is rare... He expands our boundaries of inclusiveness.

Lynne Jacobs, Ph.D., Co-founder of Pacific Gestalt Institute; Training and Supervising Analyst, Institute of Contemporary Psychoanalysis

The use of Autoethnography to explore, interrogate and challenge aspects of therapy culture is always welcome. Adam does this in fascinating, courageous and engaging ways in this text... The Gestalt community should rejoice!

Alec Grant, PhD, Independent Scholar; co-editor of Contemporary British Autoethnography, and International Perspectives on Autoethnographic Research and Practice

You have in front of you a landmark book that deserves attention on many different counts.

From the foreword by Malcolm Parlet, PhD, the author of Future Sense

Spis treści

1. Welcome  2. Defining the collective gestalt: what I have learned from large groups  3. Masculinity and male sexuality: how did my teenage years shape the man that I am becoming?  4. Embodiment of heteronormativity: building the field for addressing collective gestalts  5. (Un)related bodies: collective gestalts that shape gestalt training  6. Philosophies that inspired this book  7. Culture as ground; personal becoming as figure: autoethnography and gestalt therapy  8. Conclusion 

O autorze

Adam Kincel is a gestalt therapist, supervisor, and trainer based in the UK. His work focuses on the co-emergence of embodied relational therapy and political issues.