Gestalt therapy. Excitement and growth in the human personality
- 470 pages
- 17 hours of reading
First published 1951. A series of experiments in self-therapy designed to develop an awareness of self and a growth of the personality
Frederick Salomon Perls Books
Fritz Perls was a German psychiatrist and psychotherapist renowned as the founder of Gestalt therapy. This therapeutic approach, developed with his wife Laura, centers on enhancing awareness of sensation, perception, bodily feelings, emotion, and behavior in the present moment. Perls's work emphasizes the importance of relationship and contact between the self, its environment, and others. His methodology diverges from Gestalt psychology while sharing some core principles.
This 1st book by Perls is significant because in addition to criticising Freud, it also lays the groundwork for a new system of psychotherapy. In fact it's the beginning of the gestalt therapy by one of the founding fathers of this therapy.-- Ehrenwald Frederick Perls received his M.D. in Berlin in 1921. Like Wilhelm Reich he started out as a Freudian analyst, but under the influence of Kohler, Wertheimer & Kurt Goldstein developed his own school of analysis: Gestalt Therapy. His principles of gestalt therapy have been adopted by countless encounter & sensitivity groups. He aims in this book to examine some psychological & psychopathological reactions of the human organism within its environment. The author is criticsl of orthodox psychoanalysis, & claims that the use of the new intellectual tools holism (field conception) & semantics (the meaning of meaning) can greatly improve our theoretical outlook.
