On Intimate Ground: A Gestalt Approach to Working with Couples (Gestalt Institute of Cleveland Book Series) - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0881632643 ISBN 13: 9780881632644

Verlag: Gestalt Press, 1997

Inhaltsangabe

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 a truly phenomenological approach, based on the clients' own experience and goals, holds the key to a dramatic increase in therapeutic power and flexibility. The fifteen engaging chapters demonstrate the application of this approach to issues of intimacy, self-construction, power and abuse, "resistance," growth, and shame - and to such diverse and challenging populations as abuse survivors and their partners, remarried couples, gay and lesbian couples, and couples with "personality" or "character" disorders.

In the process, the authors offer a fresh perspective that will serve to re-energize the couples therapist's work in this challenging area. On Intimate Ground contributes new insights to many of the most timely and provocative questions in the field today.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Gordon Wheeler, Ph.D., is a clinical psychologist in private practice in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

Stephanie Backman, LCSW, is a licensed social worker in private practice in the Boston area and Maine.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Gestalt Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1997
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0881632643
• ISBN 13: 9780881632644
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Auflage: 1
• Anzahl der Seiten: 448
• Herausgeber: Wheeler Gordon, Backman Stephanie
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