Enchantment and Gestalt Therapy: Partners in Exploring Life (The Gestalt Therapy Book Series)

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Polster, Erving

Mental Health

Routledge

Enchantment and Gestalt Therapy is a personal exploration of Erving Polster’s remarkable career, the value of the Gestalt approach, and the power of enchantment in psychotherapy. 
Polster points ahead to a vision of a psychotherapy that includes the population as a whole rather than focusing on individuals, highlights common aspects of living, and focuses on creating an ethos for a shared understanding. The book outlines the six Gestalt therapy concepts that have formed the basis of Polster’s work and describes Life Focus Groups, with an emphasis on the communal relationship between tellers and listeners. Polster also describes the phenomenon of enchantment in psychotherapy in detail, with reference to his own experiences. 
This unique work is essential reading for Gestalt therapists, other professionals interested in Gestalt approaches, and readers looking for a deeper insight into community and connection. 
In the below link, Erving Polster speaks to Margherita Spagnuolo Lobb, the series editor of The Gestalt Therpay Book Series, about Enchantment and Gestalt Therapy. 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7PVG9JgpTQQ&feature=youtu.be

Enchantment and Gestalt Therapy (The Gestalt Therapy Book Series)

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W.W. Norton & Co., Inc.

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Gestalt Therapy Integrated: Contours of Theory & Practice

Polster, Miriam

Vintage

Erving Polster greatly expands the knowledge and thinking on the development of the self. This important book offers therapists new ways of thinking, as well as specific procedures to help patients realize a powerful and healthy sense of self.

A Population of Selves: A Therapeutic Exploration of Personal Diversity (JOSSEY BASS SOCIAL AND BEHAVIORAL SCIENCE SERIES)

Jossey-Bass Inc Pub

From the Radical Center: The Heart of Gestalt Therapy (Gestalt Institute of Cleveland Publication)

This remarkable collection traces central themes in the work of Erving and Miriam Polster, two of the best-known and best loved Gestalt therapists in the world. The writings herein span 4 decades in the history of psychotherapy, bringing together practical, theoretical and aesthetic dimensions of the Polsters' work in a single book. Ranging across diverse subjects and distinct historical periods, the work collected in this volume will educate, provoke, inspire and nourish Gestalt therapists for years to come.

From the Radical Center (Gestalt Institute of Cleveland Press Book Series)

Gestalt Press

In this important book, Erving Polster - coauthor of the landmark work "Gestalt Therapy Integrated" - greatly expands the therapeutic utility of the concept of self. A Population of Selves offers therapists new ways of thinking about the self, as well as specific procedures to help patients realize a powerful and healthy sense of self: a goal at the very heart of the therapeutic process. In an innovative expansion of therapeutic theory, Polster shows how the human reflex to summarize and animate experiences serves as a natural springboard for the formation of selves. He enlarges the therapeutic aim of synthesizing alienated aspects of a person by offering a construct of heterogeneous characters within, each with its own place and voice. Every person is host to a population of selves: the infantile, the cunning, the rebellious, the tender. Using case examples from his own therapeutic practice, Polster illustrates eight major pathways for therapists to elicit new selves and to help their

A Population of Selves

The Gestalt Journal Press

This remarkable collection traces central themes in the work of Erving and Miriam Polster, two of the best-known and best loved Gestalt therapists in the world. The writings herein span 4 decades in the history of psychotherapy, bringing together practical, theoretical and aesthetic dimensions of the Polsters' work in a single book. Ranging across diverse subjects and distinct historical periods, the work collected in this volume will educate, provoke, inspire and nourish Gestalt therapists for years to come.

Beyond Therapy: Igniting Life Focus Community Movements

In Beyond Therapy, Erving Polster examines the role of "life focus" in three of society's most familiar activities: ordinary conversation, the arts, and religion. He shows the life focus movement to be an indivisible complement to just simply living. In proposing a paradigm shift from psychotherapy's priority for changing people's troubled lives into the complementary purpose of illuminating their lives, the author invites the participation of many people who do not seek remedial treatment for emotional or psychological problems. Polster incorporates a broader scenario for enhancing attention through community groups, showing that the convergence of people's minds on commonly important life themes creates enlightenment. This interlocked focus amplifies the ensuing conversational content and creates a meditation-like absorption. This kind of pointed focus, argues Polster, has the power to color the lives of the participants. This work offers rationale and design for life focus community

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Enchantment and Gestalt Therapy: Partners in Exploring Life (The Gestalt Therapy Book Series)

Enchantment and Gestalt Therapy (The Gestalt Therapy Book Series)

Every Person's Life Is Worth a Novel

Every Person's Life Is Worth a Novel

Gestalt Therapy Integrated: Contours of Theory & Practice

A Population of Selves: A Therapeutic Exploration of Personal Diversity (JOSSEY BASS SOCIAL AND BEHAVIORAL SCIENCE SERIES)

From the Radical Center (Gestalt Institute of Cleveland Press Book Series)

A Population of Selves

From the Radical Center: The Heart of Gestalt Therapy (Gestalt Institute of Cleveland Publication)

Beyond Therapy: Igniting Life Focus Community Movements