Here is what Lynne Jacobs, coauthor of The Healing Relationship in Gestalt Therapy and a founder of the Pacific Gestalt Institute, writes in her introduction to this book ." . . Ribiero [is] considered by many to be the "father" of Gestalt therapy and theory in Brazil. He has certainly nurtured the Brazilian Gestalt therapy "baby" from its earliest days onward with care, with dedication, with education and training, with exhortation and argument, and finally, with the shining quality of his presence. Brazil now has a thriving Gestalt community, richly diverse in thought and practice, alive...

Lynne Jacobs and Richard Hycner assemble an international group of Gestalt theorists and clinicians for an engaging and insightful investigation into the integration of relational approaches within Gestalt therapy.

The book is divided thematically into three sections. The first section speculates on the history and development of relationality in terms of Gestalt therapy. Chapters that discuss the patient-therapist relationship comprise the second section, and include explorations into uncertainty in interpretation and understanding, attunement and optimal responsiveness, working...