Couples therapy has long been regarded as one of the most demanding forms of psychotherapy because of the way it challenges therapists to combine the insights of dynamic psychology with the power and clarity of systems dynamics. In this exciting new volume, Gordon Wheeler and Stephanie Backman, couples therapists with broad training and long years of experience, present dramatic new approaches that at last integrate the dynamic/self-organizational and the systemic/behavioral schools of thought.
Building on the insights of Gestalt psychology and psychotherapy, the authors show us how...
Couples therapy has long been regarded as one of the most demanding forms of psychotherapy because of the way it challenges therapists to combine t...
Containing examples and practical strategies, this book explains how use of the Gestalt model of self and relationship can clarify the dynamics of shame. This model shows how shame issues become pivotal in therapeutic relationships and how healing shame is the key to transformational change.
Containing examples and practical strategies, this book explains how use of the Gestalt model of self and relationship can clarify the dynamics of sha...
In this pathbreaking and provocative new treatment of some of the oldest dilemmas of psychology and relationship, Gordon Wheeler challenges the most basic tenet of the West cultural tradition: the individualist self. Characteristics of this self-model are our embedded yet pervasive ideas that the individual self precedes and transcends relationship and social field conditions and that interpersonal experience is somehow secondary and even opposed to the needs of the inner self. Assumptions like these, Wheeler argues, which are taken to be inherent to human nature and development, amount to a...
In this pathbreaking and provocative new treatment of some of the oldest dilemmas of psychology and relationship, Gordon Wheeler challenges the most b...
In these groundbreaking new collections, the reader will find an exciting, boad-ranging selection of work showing an array of applications of the Gestalt model to working with children, adolescents, and their families and worlds. From the theoretical to the hands-on, and from the clinical office or playroom to family settings, schools, institutions, and the community, these chapters take us on a rewarding tour of the vibrant, productive range of Gestalt work today, always focusing on the first two decades of life. With each new topic and setting, fresh and creative ideas and interventions...
In these groundbreaking new collections, the reader will find an exciting, boad-ranging selection of work showing an array of applications of the G...
