FRANK M, STAEMMLER
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This is the first book published in English of Staemmlers writings. It includes five of his most important papers that have had a strong influence on the evolution of Gestalt therapy in the last fifteen years.
The book is divided into three sections. In the first section, Staemmler comprehensively explores and questions the traditional Gestalt therapy theory of aggression. The usefulness of aggression as a meta-theoretical notion as well as the cathartic practice are thoroughly analyzed both from a theoretical and an empirical point of view. A new approach to working with anger and hostility is proposed and illustrated with case examples.
The second section includes in-depth examinations of the topic of time. In a first paper, the Here and Now is investigated from philosophical, psychological and neuroscientific perspectives. The second paper refers to Regressive Processes and the underlying developmental theory. A new understanding of these processes is proposed that is based on Daniel Sterns realms of relatedness.
The last section offers two papers on the hermeneutic dimension of Gestalt therapy. The author argues that interpretation is intrinsic to human communication and cannot be avoided, but should be practiced in accordance with the basic tenets of Gestalt therapy. In a first paper, the process of understanding between clients and therapists is described as a dialogical co-construction of meaning. The transcript of a therapeutic session is used to illustrate the interpretive steps that take place. The second paper of this section, Cultivated Uncertainty, characterizes an attitude for Gestalt therapists that makes it possible for them to share the power of interpretation with their clients, to welcome their fallibility, an to see the uncertainty that goes along with this attitude as a positive experience.
