A Gestalt Therapist’s Guide Through the Depressive Field
eBook - ePub

A Gestalt Therapist’s Guide Through the Depressive Field

Giving Way to Hope

  1. 164 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

A Gestalt Therapist’s Guide Through the Depressive Field

Giving Way to Hope

About this book

This book is intended for psychotherapists working with depressed clients. In particular, it focuses on how working with depressed clients affects the therapists themselves, and elaborates on how therapists can care for themselves in such demanding work to prevent burnout, or process it meaningfully as part of their professional development.

Based on the results of the author's own long-term experience, qualitative research and theoretical concepts describing psychopathology from the humanistic-existential perspective of Gestalt therapy, this book describes a paradoxical way of working in which therapists transform their own experience in the presence of a depressed client. Using the example of working with depression, the book introduces how the field theory approach can be used in clinical practice. The book provides a conceptual framework, practical skills and case examples illustrating what a field theory approach brings new to the table.

This will be a useful guide for psychotherapists and Gestalt therapists who regularly come into contact with depressive clients, as well as for therapists who are themselves experiencing professional exhaustion and are at risk of reaching burnout.

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Information

Publisher
Routledge
Year
2024
eBook ISBN
9781040176283
Edition
0

Table of contents

  1. Cover Page
  2. Endorsements Page
  3. Half-Title Page
  4. Series Page
  5. Title Page
  6. Copyright Page
  7. Dedication Page
  8. Contents
  9. Acknowledgments
  10. Foreword
  11. Introduction
  12. 1 How Depression Gets Under Our Skin
  13. 2 We Depress Together
  14. 3 Why Do We Do It?
  15. 4 Therapists in the Depressive Swamp
  16. 5 What Do We Actually Do?
  17. 6 Letting Pain Be Felt
  18. 7 The Art of “Doing Nothing”
  19. 8 Surrendering to Hope
  20. 9 Above All, Get Out of the Way
  21. 10 Inviting a Stranger
  22. 11 Something for the Road
  23. Postscript
  24. Index