This is a collection of writings by members of the New York Institute for Gestalt Therapy previously published from 2000 to 2014. Here you will find essays with much in common and with important differences. These papers reflect the authors' relationship to the institute and offer what they believe is representative of their work. This collection exemplifies the institute: our membership, our mission our sense of history-and marks our place in contemporary gestalt therapy.

The book presents a wide range of essays across three decades of work and writing as a gestalt therapist. The fields covered vary from current interventions in mental health services; working in couples and family therapy; child inclusive practice; domestic and family violence; substance misuse; working with trauma and war veterans; group work; working in court settings; communities; and management. With this spectrum of topics I stretch gestalt therapy theory and practice to incorporate areas such as spirituality; relativistic quantum physics; creativity; poetry; political science;...

This book provides an overview of both Swedenborg and Jung through a gestalt lens of their lived experience.

Working with couples in psychotherapy using a gestalt approach.

Our experience of being This book offers people the experience in awareness with a series of exercises and experiments the author has used in teaching Gestalt therapy. These experiments are for everyone to make use of. Our main sense of identity is found in this state of being awake and aware in which you are reading this book. Let's call this Ordinary Waking Consciousness (OWC). This is a way of being in the world we are very familiar with. There are more states than this one and this book explores them with the reader through these experiments in awareness.