Reaching beyond standard textbook logic, this collection explores the impacts of difficult life situations on human development, experience, and functioning, through a phenomenological field-oriented lens.
Each author offers a Gestalt-centered perspective on the circumstances of those whose lives are lived in pain – a situational window, which includes the therapist and avails itself of tools configured to modify the entire experiential field. Through clinical case studies and theoretical reflections, the book examines the experience of children, difficult childhood situations (such as separations, abuse, neurodevelopmental disorders, adolescent social closure), the experience of dependency, couples and family therapy, the condition of the elderly and the end of life, interventions for degenerative diseases, and the trauma of loss and mourning, all of which are considered according to two cardinal points: first, the description of the relational ground experiences of those who are in pain, and second, a field perspective which allows the presence of the therapist to be modulated.
Psychopathology of the Situation in Gestalt Therapy: A Field-oriented Approach is essential reading for Gestalt therapists as well as other mental health professionals with an interest in Gestalt approaches and the relationship between individuals and society.
Author(s): Margherita Spagnuolo Lobb, Pietro Andrea Cavaleri
Publisher: Routledge
Year: 2023
Language: English
Pages: 316
City: London
Cover
Endorsements
Half Title
Series
Title
Copyright
Dedication
Contents
Acknowledgments
Foreword
Editors’ Introduction
Part I Psychopathology of the Situation
1 Psychopathological Situations in a Post-Pandemic World: Gestalt Therapy in Emergent Clinical Fields
2 Working on the Ground, on Aesthetics, and on the “Dance”: Aesthetic Relational Knowing and Reciprocity
Beyond Slogans: Connecting Individuals in a Community
3 Global Unrest and the Anthropological Perspective of Gestalt Therapy
The World Crisis and Gestalt Therapy: Response to Cavaleri
4 Phenomenology and Gestalt Psychotherapy: New Challenges Under-the-Radar
5 The Gestalt Clinical Data Sheet: A Phenomenological, Aesthetic, and Field Instrument for Gestalt Psychotherapy and Supervision
Part II Psychopathological Situations in the Clinical Fields of Human Relations
6 Ring-a-Ring O’ Roses, a Pocket Full of Posies: Gestalt Psychotherapy and Childhood Suffering
7 Children of “Broken” Relationships: Repairing the Ground of the Parental Experience
8 Gestalt Psychotherapy and Complex Trauma in Preadolescence: How to Support the Integration of the Body, Emotions, and Words
9 To Be or Not to Be Autistic: From the Camouflage Effect to Élan Vital – A Gestalt Perspective
10 Adolescents in Eclipse: Journey Notes From the Labyrinth of Social Withdrawal
11 Addiction as Persistent Trauma of the Ground Experience: Neuroscience and Gestalt Psychotherapy
12 Conflict in Couple Relationships as Space for Recognition: An Opportunity that is Still Possible in the Post-Pandemic World
13 Working with the Family in Gestalt Psychotherapy
14 Gestalt Psychotherapy and Ageing
15 Gestalt Psychotherapy in the Relationship with the Chronic Patient: Accepting and Supporting the Experience of Loss Through an Aesthetic Gaze
16 For Whom the Bells Do Not Toll: The Processing of Bereavement in Our Time
Afterword
Biographical Notes
Appendix
Index
