Developing Gestalt Counselling
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Developing Gestalt Counselling

  1. 272 pages
  2. English
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eBook - ePub

Developing Gestalt Counselling

About this book

`In this eminently sensible, practical and thought-provoking book, Jennifer Mackewn takes gestalt light years forward towards a synthesis and integration of psychological styles and away from what she describes as "Perlism". I agree with her: this is a book for therapists, not principally for gestaltists... In inviting the reader to "pick and choose" from the many and varied, always practical, hands-on approach chapters... Jennifer Mackewn hopes we will both enjoy her book and find it of use. This reader, commending the book to you all, has no doubt that both her hopes will be fulfilled? - Self & Society

Describing contemporary integrative Gestalt counselling and psychotherapy, this book addresses 30 key issues which will help both trainee and practising counsellors examine and improve crucial areas of their work.

The field theoretical and relational model which underpins the book suggests that therapy is a complex process which requires therapists to be intuitive and self-aware while engaging in a number of interrelated therapeutic tasks. The importance of meeting clients person-to-person in a meaningful relationship is highlighted. Jennifer Mackewn encourages counsellors to focus on areas that they may feel need special attention, and shows them how to blend their skills into a subtle and versatile art form. The book covers vital aspects of Gestalt counselling and psychotherapy, such as: appreciating the significance of beginnings; understanding the client?s context; the dialogic relationship; contact and awareness; exploring life themes and support systems; and experimental and creative methods.

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Index

anorexic clients, 51
archetypal stories, 149
art form, Gestalt counselling/therapy as, 10
aspects of counselling/therapy, 2–8
assimilation of learning, 193–4, 200, 210
awareness: development of, 34–5, 36, 66, 67, 113–19, 133, 179–80; as a means of knowing our humanity, 152; as meditative practice, 152–3; of polarised qualities, 120–3
background features: in clients’ lives, 179–202; support, 183
beginning counselling, 31–9
belief systems, 188–92
Bertalanffy, Ludwig von, 15
body experience, 159–63
body process, 159–67
body structure, 166
borderline self process, 197–202, 227, 235–6
bracketing previous assumptions, 60
breathing, 165–6, 186
Broughton, V., 239–40, 243
Buber, M., 80, 85, 152, 154
calibration: of approach, 196–202, 219–20; of
experiments, 134–6
cathartic work, avoidance of, 200–1
challenge, 184–5
change, 125; paradoxical theory of, 63–9, 115
change agent, declining the role of, 65–6
child development, 78–9
Clarkson, P., 1, 14, 18, 20, 31, 34, 62, 64, 95, 140, 180
co-creating: experiments, 116–17, 236–8; relationship, 80, 82
commitment, 35
complete, urge to, 15–16
completion, 193, 210
complexity, science of, 7; in counselling/psychotherapy, 1–8, 33, 215–17; in groups, systems and organizations, 238–44
confirmation, 86, 98–100
confluence, 27, 106, 107
contact, 13, 16, 64, 67, 80, 179–80, 230–3; cycles of, 18–21, 103, 104–5, 115–16, 206–7, 238–45; interruptions to, 16, 23, 27–8, 106; moderating, 1...

Table of contents

  1. Cover Page
  2. Title
  3. Copyright
  4. Contents
  5. Preface
  6. Acknowledgements
  7. Introduction: A field theoretical and relational model of contemporary integrative Gestalt
  8. I Attending to Beginnings: Initial Conditions and Existential Meeting
  9. II Exploring the Client’s Context and Culture
  10. III Developing a Dialogic Relationship as a Crucible for Self Development
  11. IV Observing Process, Developing Diagnostic Perspectives and Therapeutic Strategies
  12. V Exploring Awareness and Contact
  13. VI Integrating Experimental, Creative and Transpersonal Dimensions
  14. VII Working with Embodiment, Energy and ‘Resistance’
  15. VIII Attending to the Background Features and Processes in Clients’ Lives
  16. IX Shaping Counselling over Time
  17. Conclusion: Simplicity, Complexity and Paradox in Gestalt Counselling and Therapy
  18. Appendices
  19. References
  20. Index