Object Relations in Gestalt Therapy

ISBN-13: 9781780490359 / Angielski / Miękka / 2013 / 272 str.

Gilles Delisle

Opis

The author of Personality Disorders: A Gestalt Therapy Perspective proposes a revision of Perls, Hefferline and Goodman's Theory of the Self in a way that brings it closer to contemporary issues in in the area of Personality Disorders. Understanding splitting and projective identification that chronically lead to experiential impasses is an essential feature of the psychotherapy of the more severe personality disorders. In order to do so within the Gestalt framework, the author integrates certain developmental concepts from object relations theory, especially those put forth by W.R.D. Fairbairn (1954).

This revised developmental perspective leads to an Object Relational Gestalt Therapy, in which the here-and-now therapeutic relationship is related to the there-and-then of the developmental past, as well as to the there-and-now of the client's current life situation.

Spis treści

Introduction -- Historical Considerations -- Fifty years of Gestalt therapy -- Theorising and knowledge in psychology -- Integration in psychotherapy: epistemological and methodological considerations -- A comparative analysis of the Perls, Hefferline, and Goodman theory of Self and Fairbairn’s endopsychic structure in terms of Greenberg and Mitchell’s (1983) four fundamental problems -- Propositions for an Object Relational Gestalt Therapy -- Epistemological and methodological preconditions for a Gestalt therapeutic system -- The linear-sequential vision of the Self in Perls, Hefferline, and Goodman: a critique -- The Self and object relations: a revision of Perls, Hefferline, and Goodman -- Gestalt psychotherapy: from object relations to hermeneutic dialogue -- Neuroscientific perspective of ORGT: neurodynamics of the Self in therapeutic dialogue -- ORGT and evidence-based practice -- Case Studies -- Introduction to the Case Studies -- Bob -- Brian -- Jade -- Appendix

O autorze

Delisle, Gilles